But I think all my favorite artists have stayed true to their music. And all my favorite artists have had that, those ups and downs. I think we recognize that we're never going to be the hottest new thing ever again, and that's fine. You've hit the apex that a lot of groups hope for including a nine-time platinum hit with Need You Now. I feel like I was always chasing the next thing and not really sitting in the moment enough, and so I'm trying to do that a lot more. I think I've definitely recognized how selfish I probably have been over the past 15 years.
We started building like a playhouse outside, just little things like that. Now I try to make sure I spend more time and prioritize my marriage and obviously time with my, I've got a little 6-year-old boy, Ward, and we've been doing a lot of different little projects. How so?įirst thing I would do when I came home from a tour before was want to go straight to the golf course. You mentioned you own priorities changed during the pandemic.
And so that's where that song really started coming from. It made me want to call my ex-girlfriend back up, or it may inspire me to move to Nashville. And I started thinking about so many times, like driving in the car, what it made me want to do. And so it was more about the power of what music can do and make you express your feelings better than you can even say it yourself. And I was like, how do we write this song called, What A Song Can Do, but not mention actual songs. We had thrown that title out and I think the big thing I wanted to do was not name drop songs. What was the original thoughts behind that song, and did it change as you got more into the music and lyrics? And we were talking about all different records and music that we were listening to that was re-inspiring us. I wrote, What A Song Can Do, which was written during the pandemic. And I think a lot of great songs have come out of that pandemic. I think for a lot of artists, it hopefully made them sit back and realize that you can't control a lot in this world, but you can control your music. So it was a very interesting, but positive life change for me over the past two years. And that was the first time I think I'd sat still in the past 20 years. It was an interesting thing because I was off the road for two years. It made me slow down my drinking a lot, made me take a little bit more time and stock with my family. Kelley chats more with Palm Springs Life about the pandemic’s impact on his personal life, what success means to the group after 15 years, and how he was able to combine hhis two loves - golf and music - at the recent Master’s golf tournament in his native Georgia.Īnd so it really brought me a lot closer to my faith, I think. Lady A makes a tour stop May 20 at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio. And we want people to come to the show and feel like our music is for everybody.” The reaction to it, you had a lot of people thinking we were trying to make some political statement and it wasn't. I think a lot of people weren't happy with it, but it's hard to just describe because for us, it caught us off guard. And hopefully people will understand that we were doing it, it's coming from the heart, and that's really what it was all about. “For us, I think it was just once we knew that the name carried some offensive connotations with people, we were like, ‘Listen, man, this is something we can do’. I think people like to read between the lines, maybe what our goal was out of this or whatever.” “And all I can say is, what we said from the very beginning was our intentions are pure in this. “I think with anything this day in age, you're going to have people misinterpret your intentions,” Kelley says. The whole process left Kelley wondering what place good intentions have. Two months ago, a Nashville federal judge sealed dueling lawsuits between Lady A and a black Seattle blues singer, who claimed to have used the Lady A moniker sine the 1980s. Over the last two years, Lady Antebellum became Lady A in response to the “Black Lives Matter” movement and that the band’s name harkened back to a time when blacks were enslaved in the South. The pandemic taught Lady A singer Charles Kelley that ultimately the only thing you can control is the direction your life takes.
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