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DocuSign Envelope ID:AA4o52F4-E4o6-4Fo4-9e10-E18606475c71 <br /> Miller:The Pinhook kind of feels like our home venue, in Durham. But there are a lot of venues that we <br /> enjoy playing. We play The GreyEag|e a bunch in Asheville. <br /> Toll: Kings [in Raleigh]. <br /> McEntire: Cat's Cradle [in Carrboro]. <br /> Miller: Oh yeah,the Cradle,that's true. It feels like there's a legacy associated with Cat's Cradle, so it's <br /> very cool to play there. <br /> Q:What else do you think our readers would like to learn about you? <br /> Miller: One thing about the band that I feel is unique is that we're a country, Southern-rock band, but <br /> we're also very progressive and we've taken some pretty public stances on current events and current <br /> issues, including Amendment One.That was a big victory.We lost the battle, but we won the war.So, <br /> there seems to be a lot there in terms of being a creative person, being in the media at this time and in <br /> this state.There seems to be a lot of political energy being invested in this state right now.So to be a <br /> band from North Carolina,you have to engage with that in some way. <br /> Our record was premiered in The Wall Street Journal. It was cool, but at the same time,The Wall Street <br /> Journal is a vent conservative paper.There was a lot of discussion about what it means to be a <br /> progressive band in a Southern state and then to be working with a media outlet like The Wall Street <br /> Journal.Those issues of identity feel very current.We feel like there's a complexity there, and we feel <br /> like it's important to acknowledge and to work with, rather than try to ignore. [It's a matter of] <br /> interacting with that complexity,finding meaning there somehow,and being able to be secure in who <br /> you are and what your beliefs are,even when you're constantly being pulled in different directions. <br /> McEntire: But also maintaining and developing our family lives—trying to relate to them,as well as <br /> conservatives,and other generations. <br /> Miller:That's true.Our parents' generation had a very different experience with the South.And we <br /> inhabit the musical form that, on the surface, is very recognizable to them. So they might say, "we love <br /> that kind of country music," but then the substance of it is so different.That's the complexity that we try <br /> to engage with. It doesn't always seem to come across, because it's hard to articulate, especially if <br /> you're not from the South. <br /> Interview excerpt,Cream Puff Records, November 07,2016: <br /> Cream Puff Records:Switching gears to another great underground label,Cory Rayborn of Three <br /> Lobed Recordings has called you a "master of balancing dark and light." I would say it's pretty easy to <br /> identify darkness in our current world, but I was hoping you could comment on the "light." What <br /> gives you hope? <br /> Jenks Miller: Music for sure. Even as the industry seems to dry up,there's still the activity of playing <br /> music. And that's really important to me. A long time ago, I tried to make it into something more than <br /> just playing my instrument. I tried to make it a spiritual practice. I wanted music to be something that <br />