A Thousand Horses had a hand in writing all of the songs on their debut album, including their latest single, “(This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial,” but they say it wasn’t necessarily something they set out to do.
When choosing songs to record, Michael Hobby says, “We’re never opposed to anything. It never was really even a conscious thing of, we have to write all the songs, or we have to be on the songs together. We just all write songs and sometimes you write songs with your friends and other people, and that ends up being the best song that you want to play and perform.”
Perhaps the reason their songs made the cut is because Michael says, “When it comes to pickin’ songs, it’s just things all about what we wanted to sing, and what we wanted to play and what we wanted to be about, and it just happened to work out where we did end up writing the whole thing with just a few other friends of ours.”
A Thousand Horses’ debut album, Southernality, is available now.
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Michael Hobby – “We’re never opposed to anything. It never was really even a conscious thing of, we have to write all the songs, or we have to be on the songs together. We just kinda always just, we just all write songs and sometimes you write songs with your friends and other people, and that ends up being the best song that you want to play and perform. When it comes to pickin’ songs, it’s just things all about what we wanted to sing, and what we wanted to play and what we wanted to be about, and it just happened to work out where we did end up writing the whole thing with just a few other friends of ours.”
Zach Brown – “Yah, I think when you set out to play music, I mean us, we set out to create music and write music and create our own thing. So, that’s kinda naturally what we did.”
WHAT THEY’RE DOING THIS WEEK – AUGUST 3, 2015 – MONDAY
A Thousand Horses play shows in San Antonio on Thursday (8/6) at Cowboys Dancehall and then on Friday (8/7), the guys play Billy Bob’s in Fort Worth.
A THOUSAND HORSES – THE FACTS
MEMBERS: Michael Hobby – Lead Vocal
Bill Satcher – Lead Guitar
Zach Brown – Guitar and Vocal
Graham Deloach – Bass and Vocal
HOMETOWN / ORIGIN: Newberry, South Carolina – Savannah, Georgia
DEBUT SINGLE: – “Smoke” topped the country charts.
LATEST SINGLE: “(This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial”
DEBUT ALBUM: Southerality
GRAND OLE OPRY DEBUT: February 21, 2015
TOURING WITH: Darius Rucker’s “Southern Style Tour.”
RECENT TWEETS:
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CMT Hot 20 Countdown @CMThot20 Sunday, August 2
We go muddin’, clubbin’, & singin’ this weekend with @AThousandHorses! Tune in now to see what they do during downtime in West Virginia!
A Thousand Horses @athousandhorses Sunday, August 2
#ChulaVista! Giving 2 tix to show and #HandsIn ritual. Enter using #HandsInChulaVista http://smarturl.it/ATHhandsin
A Thousand Horses @athousandhorses August 1
Our #HandsIn ritual yesterday with @_mayceelynn! #HandsInMountainview #Southernality https://twitter.com/athousandhorses/status/627562456961916928/photo/1