Billy Bob Thornton

But Levon, just playing on a little four-piece kit, just had that feel.

And he played the song.

So anytime musicians start thinking it's all about their thing.

Like if you're doing movies, the prop people think you need 11 watches on each arm.

It's like about your department, everything.

Five briefcases and watches everywhere and shit.

And it's like, no, I'll just take an old time ex with a round face.

I'm good, you know.

But when musicians start thinking that they have to make their part cut through and be noticed, the best drummers, you don't really notice them.

You hear the song, if you go in there and dig deep and listen to them, if you isolate them and just listen to that, you're like, oh, okay.

Listen to that cat.

But in a perfect world, all you hear is the singer singing and telling you what they're trying to say, and the music is so good behind it that it's just part of it.

You don't really notice it.

You know what I mean?

Absolutely.

And with our band in particular, I mean, before that, I played in a million bands and had a solo band that did four major label solo records, and that's where I met some of the guys that rolled over into the Boxmasters.

J.D.

Andrew, specifically, he and I are the longest-running members.

We started the band together, and he and I still run it.

And, you know...