The Eli Young Band is truly a band of brothers, but they admit when they are not out on the road touring together they don’t necessarily spend as much time together when they’re at home. “We don’t necessarily when we’re out on the road a lot,” says lead singer Mike Eli.
But because they are so close, they do still manage to get together every once in a while when they’re at home. According to Mike, “James and his wife live like a block and a half away from my wife and I, so we do hang out a little more than the rest of us but that’s because we live right around the corner from each other. But Jon just moved closer to us, him and his wife. So he put the pool in so that we’d come hang out at his house.”
But even still, there are times when they’re off the road that all EYB wants to do is hide away and spend some time with their families. Mike says, “The wives and the kids they spend more time together while we’re gone than when we’re home, because it tends to be one of those things where we get home and it’s like all we want to do is lock ourselves in the house after being on the road for long runs. So we tend to influence that a little bit.”
The Eli Young Band just released their latest single, “Break It In,” which is the follow-up to their number one song, “Love Ain’t.”
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Mike Eli – “We don’t necessarily when we’re out on the road a lot. But James and his wife live like a block and a half away from my wife and I, so we do hang out a little more than the rest of us but that’s because we live right around the corner from each other. But Jon just moved closer to us, him and his wife. So he put the pool in so that we’d come hang out at his house. The wives and the kids they spend more time together while we’re gone than when we’re home, because it tends to be one of those things where we get home and it’s like all we want to do is lock ourselves in the house after being on the road for long runs. So we tend to influence that a little bit.”