“So what if I were to come hang out here with you in the back for a little while? Is that alright? Good, good, because I’m excited about it too, but I wanted to check. I have a story to tell you. Would you like to hear a story? Fantastic. Okay, so take yourselves back to 2020, and I put out folklore, and I just kept writing. I just wanted to write more. I didn’t want to stop. The more I thought, the more I thought, ‘Let me just make a sister album to folklore and call it evermore.’ And so I just started immediately—Aaron, Jack, and I were just writing remotely. And the challenge at the time was trying to figure out how to record things. Most studios were completely shut down due to Covid, understandably, and so we were trying to figure out—I could not find a studio, essentially. So Aaron is like, 'Let me call around to see if there is anyone who is cool, and nice, and generous, and might be willing to offer up their home studio if we do the right amount of testing, we’re totally locked down, and quarantined.’ And I was like, 'Okay, please, I really hope someone comes through.' So he calls me up and is like, 'I have really, really good news. Marcus Mumford said that you could record at his home studio.’ So I first of all, am so excited that he’s saving us, because without this trip, we wouldn’t have recorded five or six of the songs on evermore, which came from me getting in a car, driving six hours out into the country past thousands of beautiful sheep, to Marcus Mumford’s beautiful house where he has a studio. So I got to do this, we get there, and the whole time I’m thinking, 'Okay, wouldn’t it be so cool if he would sing on something?’ Because I’m such a Mumford & Sons fan. I just think he’s brilliant, and has one of the most gorgeous voices in the world. So I’m like, 'Will he sing something, please, please?’ But I didn’t want to be weird about it, so I’m like, 'I wonder if he’ll wander in, if fate will have him wander into the studio at the right time.’ So sure enough, we’re recording a song, and he wanders in at the perfect time and just kind of started humming a harmony. And I kind of turned to him as if I hadn’t been thinking of it the whole time, and I was like, 'Oh! You sound really good on that harmony! I wonder if you might, um, sing on this song?' And he said, 'Yep, I would love to!’ So essentially because of Marcus Mumford, we have a lot of the songs that probably we wouldn’t have been able to put out evermore when we did, as quickly as we did, And we also have a gorgeous harmony on a song called cowboy like me. Las Vegas, Nevada, we are so lucky because we do have a special guest with us tonight, and that is Marcus Mumford!!! Would you honor us with a performance? Would you sing cowboy like me with me please?”
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