We were broken, and we just sat down and wrote that record, Karen Fairchild tellsRolling Stone.
That record would be Little Big Towns breakthrough 2005 albumThe Road to Here.
Up until that point, the band had some moderate success with its self-titled 2002 debut.
Little Big Town will celebrate 20 years since the release of their breakthrough, ‘The Road to Here,’ next year.Blaire Getz Mezibov*
Get the demons out of our heads and realize we can make the music we want to make.
Its not surprising that its the one that broke through, Fairchild says of the album.
Because it was the most honest, it translated with that kind of emotion and importance.
Not to mention four Grammy Awards alongside numerous ACM and CMA honors.
Weve been singing Christmas music for a long time, Fairchild says.
Hes adventurous and spontaneous, Fairchild says of Cobb.
And hes a musician historian.
That was by design, according to Fairchild.
Not just individual voices, [but] almost treating the harmony like its a lead singer.
We were on a bus going to a choir camp, Fairchild reminisces.
[Kimberly] was sitting right behind me and I introduced myself.
We hit it off and weve been close ever since.
Fairchild and Schlapman kept in touch after graduation and through all of lifes changes.
By the mid-1990s, Fairchild was in Nashville pursuing her musical dreams, with Schlapman not far behind.
The two reconnected for lunch and started brainstorming over their respective careers.
The Chicks were huge [at the time], Fairchild recalls.
Their eureka moment occurred right then and there.
Cue Sweet and Westbrook.
Years earlier, Fairchild had crossed paths with Westbrook on the road when each were in other bands.
Fairchild remembered how great Westbrooks voice was and called him up.
As soon as the three of us sang together, it was really good, Fairchild says.
The group has become a family through harmony.
It was a little manna from heaven, you know?
