Cris Cohen: You wrote a number of lyrics or are credited with co-writing a number of lyrics and music on this album. One of the songs that I especially love is the song “Everybody,” which has one of the more unique lyrics for a love song. “Like a junkie to a rush / I’d trade my mama for your touch.” Which I thought was hilarious. Is that one of your lines? Was that one of Ken's (Ken Block – lead singer)? And do you remember how that one came about?
Jett Beres of Sister Hazel: I do. In fact, to this day, Ken says that we wrote the majority of that song in his hot tub. Now <laugh>, I don't think that’s true, but there is something about that line that I think, we might have been in the hot tub when we wrote it. That song was fun. We just had fun with it. It was something kind of different for us. We had fun with the music part. Ryan (Newell) came in with that groove. It just kind of flowed. Like I said, songs were just flowing at the time.
Cris Cohen: And there's a great part in that song – now switching over musically speaking – where it kind of breaks down. Most of the band kind of steps back. It's just bass, kick drum, hi-hat, and then maybe some guitar. I’m wondering how that came about. Because it's just this cool groove. It's got this great energy when you go into that and your bass work kind of comes to the forefront at that point in the song.
Jett Beres: For a time for the Fortress Tour the song we would walk on stage to was by the Jackson 5. And so, I was kind of immersed in that vibe and those bass lines. So, I think that was probably the influence. But to be able to do that and kind of stretch out rhythmically was kind of part of it. It just seemed very natural.