![]() Everything else that we have going on in our lives, business or creative, is just not important. By the time we left, it was like, ‘This is a band. And so showing up was kind of this experiment – three friends getting together and just seeing what would happen. He continued, “Because it just got to a point living in L.A., when we’d all been in bands in our twenties and teens, that it was just like, ‘Oh man, this just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen.’ You gotta keep the lights on. “All of us were living in separate places: Jess was up in Oregon, I was in California and Mark was not far away from me, and we were best buds, but everyone was getting pulled in these separate directions, all of which were non-musical for the most part, living somewhat ordinary lives, having given up on music.” “It started as exploratory,” Duddy told Variety. Duddy came along to document the proceedings on film but ended up joining in on the sessions. From there, Carson and Wystrach began writing songs together – and decided to lay down tracks at the Tornillo, TX-based Sonic Ranch. ![]() Of the album’s 14 tracks, only one selection ever made it to an album (“Fourteen Gears,” which was later re-recorded for 2019’s Let it Roll).īefore bassist/vocalist Cameron Duddy, guitarist/vocalist Jess Carson, and lead singer/guitarist Mark Wystrach signed to Big Machine Records and released their 2017 debut, On the Rocks, they were a loose collective of friends, who started jamming at Duddy’s Jackson Hole wedding. The resulting songs from those formative days will be available for the very first time as The Sonic Ranch Sessions. These recordings capture three friends, at a live-in studio in the desert, trying to make a dream come true.” We had no record label or manager and we had never played a show together. ![]() “Midland was not so much a band as an experiment fueled by an assortment of spirits – but mostly tequila and the possibilities painted in our imaginations. “In the spring of 2014 we took 11 days out of our very separate lives to head down to the Sonic Ranch, a studio nestled along the dusty American side of the Rio Grande outside El Paso, Texas,” recalls the band in a statement. ![]() Fans can catch the film on CMT’s platforms, including their YouTube channel. Midland will also be joining Thomas Rhett’s LIFE CHANGES TOUR this Fall.ACM Award-winning country band Midland is giving fans an intimate look at their formation and earliest sessions in a new documentary, Midland: The Sonic Ranch, and an accompanying soundtrack, The Sonic Ranch Sessions – both out March 19. WHERE TO CATCH MIDLAND LIVE: Touring with Little Big Town & Kacey Musgraves for THE HEARTBREAKERS TOUR. Check out more new music from Midland on our YouTube Page and 97.1 HANK FM! Midland’s debut album On the Rocks dropped in 2017-and we still can’t get enough. WHAT TO LISTEN TO: Grammy Nominated “Best Country Song” – “Drinkin’ Problem”, New Single: “Burn Out” which features some classic country music poetry. We caught a glimpse of that when we brought them to the Indiana State Fairgrounds Midway to play a game! ![]() They’re HUGE pranksters and love a good laugh on the road comparing themselves to the Three Stooges. Wystrach used to be a model for Calvin Klein. He won an MTV Video Music Award for directing Bruno Mar’s “Locked Out of Heaven” video. With plenty of nods to country music’s roots, Midland is paving their own way in the 2018 country music landscape and giving us a ton of good music along the way! We promise you won’t “Burn Out” on their music anytime soon!ĭuddy is a music video director and has worked/directed with Bruno Mars, Fifth Harmony, and Jennifer Lopez (as well as Midland’s “Drinkin’ Problem” music video). “Drinkin’ Problem,” their debut single, hit No.1 and earned the trio their first Grammy Nominations for Best Country Song and Best Country Duo/Group Performance. Midland’s album On the Rocks is 13 tracks of songwriting genius courtesy of hit makers such as Shane McAnally and Josh Osbourne. ![]()
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