(AUDIO) MIDLAND EXPLAINS HOW THEY DEVELOPED THEIR TEXAS ROOTS

When you look at the guys in Midland, they almost look like the poster children for the state of Texas, even though none of them are originally from there.  But Cameron Duddy explains, “We want to entertain you, not with just our music, but with what’s going on, on stage, and charisma and engaging. So yes, people will show up, but you also gotta keep ‘em engaged. And that is where we sort of cut our teeth and figured out who we were as performers in Texas, which I think sort of circles back to how are you guys the poster children of Texas and no one was born there, is because this is where we found ourselves as artists or musicians.”

All of the guys in Midland now call Texas home and Cameron says, “That’s where we found ourselves and our home and that is why we are so entrenched in that way of life.  And it’s not just Texas either, by the way, it’s any sort of simple way of life.”

Texas is also where Midland gets inspiration to write a lot of their songs like their latest single, “Burn Out.”

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Cameron Duddy – “We want to entertain you, not with just our music, but with what’s going on, on stage, and charisma and engaging. So yes, people will show up, but you also gotta keep ‘em engaged. And that is where we sort of cut our teeth and figured out who we were as performers in Texas, which I think sort of circles back to how are you guys the poster children of Texas and no one was born there, is because this is where we found ourselves as artists or musicians. We’re musicians, we’re performers.  And that’s where we found ourselves and our home and that is why we are so entrenched in that way of life.  And it’s not just Texas either, by the way, it’s any sort of simple way of life.”