the easy thing about being in a band with your sisters is singing together.

finding Harmony feels very easy and, that is something that feels very joyful playing, more folk music that is coming from deep within us.

It it feels it feels right, don't know, like, I feel like I'm getting, like a little like a hook that's like linking to my sisters.

And it just feels like it's sort of creating something bigger than the three of us.

Like Like we're tapping into something that's not even about us anymore.

It just feels like it's sort of, vibrational, we grew up right smack in the middle of the Twin Cities in Minnesota.

So we're from the Saint Paul side.

and I'm the oldest and Rachel's the middle child and Rosie is a baby.

We're, each about two and a half years apart.

And so we were you know, frenemies growing up.

I'd say we were.

We were close.

I mean, we spent a lot of time together.

we grew up, doing a lot of music together, sort of begrudgingly.

Our parents are both musicians.

mom, ended up being the choir director at our high school, and, me and Rachel, and that's taken through it.

And we all, we all took at least one term with her.

and, my dad was musical, too.

He played guitar an was a singer songwriter as well.

And they met in music school.

you know, our dad grew up on a dairy farm, was born Amish and raised Mennonite.

And so, those roots are still pretty present.

both sides of our family, our extended family are very musical.

So, you know, we would with my mom's side of the family, we would sing carols and we would sing prayer before dinner, and we would, our grandpa, sing kids songs with us.

And then on my dad's side of the family, lots of.

Yeah, sitting around and singing we it was a big part of his childhood and, their, their repertoire was more of like the folky, you know, Joni Mitchell, Dan Fogelberg, sitting around the campfire kind of songs and it's funny because we gre up in a, in a high school that, like all of our friends were in bands and like, that was very much a part of normal but never something that we or at least I felt like I was equipped to do.

I'd, I had done piano lessons and I knew how to read music, but the idea of like getting together with friends and jus jamming was like super foreign.

The original first time we sang together as a gig, I guess you could say, was very unexpected.

Rachels boyfriend of many years, passed away, and we, you know, threw together thi memorial service and the girls.

And I sang a Beatles song, that was probably the first time we had done something like that since the like, sort of, begrudging church gigs that our parents would kind of be like, do this, we were like, oh, wow.

This feels really good, actually.

And I think you we we missed something.

And when it was our decision and we missed each other we were all in different places.

and then at Amelia's wedding, we we sang together as kind of like a welcom to the family, to her husband.

a bunch of our cousins were there, and they were like, oh, y'all do that?

Like lets Can you can you guys do that for our wedding?

Can you sing five songs or, you know how long of a set can you get together?

So we all flew to Minnesota.

We borrowed our parents car, put all of our hodgepodge of instruments that we had collecte that we barely knew how to play.

I for some reason drove to Washington State, wher a friend of ours had a tiny home that he offered us to stay in, It was like the perfect mix of us getting to just be together as sisters and having fun and have this adventure together and then also having a purpose it just opened up this thing in our relationship, I think, that we had never experienced before because so at the end of that, we were like, okay, what are we doing next summer?

and at that point, we'd always been joking that as soon as one of us got pregnant, we'd, you know, lived together for nine months and do it for real.

And Amelia called u and she said she was pregnant.

And we're like, okay, were coming.

and then the whole family just sort of converged upon Chattanooga.

And that became learning these instruments.

And stuff sort of became our, our maternity leave project.

sitting around with a baby and trying to learn accordion I think it started ver much based on the both the songs and the instruments and the voices that we had to it was very acoustic at first and definitely more folky than mostl most of what we listened to, I then the we started writing our own songs and, you know, got to think a little bit more consciously about, about the sound.

A lot of times what we were hearing were poppier sounds and Like Feet Are Dirty is one of the first songs that we wrote.

And, we've slowly been kind of expanding and experimenting with different things.

Like we have an electronic keyboard now and a full kit, and I play electric bass now sometimes.

we've looped in my husband on electric guitar.

Sometimes we get to work with Summer dregs.

so that brings a lot more sort of like pop influence we felt very free to kind of experiment and let things get as big and weird as they wanted to and as kind of, and pare down as others wanted to be.

every step of the way has been sort of like, Oh, like, it has always felt like an opportunity falls in our lap and we're like, okay, let's do it.

let's do it.

So that happened when, we got approached by the record label.

I think that's how it felt early on.

You know.

Even when we got asked t play gigs, it was like, really?

You want us to play?

Okay, we'll play a gig.

We felt really lucky that the everybody that we've run into so far that has helped us out alon the way have been truly, very, very kind, which is not ofte the case in the music industry.

We've gotten on this little label, just out of Athens.

and so having that support, you know and having this home base and, always being abl to come back to everybody here who, you know, see, is where we, you know, how much we've grown is especially special so much of the music industry, it seems like, is just planting seeds and continuing to do what you do and, that's been advice that we've gotten a lot is that the right people will come to you if you just keep working on making what you want to make and, make it the best you can.

And I think, too we're having to do it in a way that's different than people that are in their early 20s and don't have families.

I think it's unique, partially because it takes so much support.

You know, most people can't jus stop, drop and like, go to a gig You know, it's then they have when they're breastfeeding and they have, you know, part time jobs.

And so our, our family networ has really made that possible.

it's just, you know, a lot of learning how to practice.

Well, severely tired.

but it's, otherwise not been too tricky because we have each other feel so lucky.

I, I think that not very many sisters get that, get the opportunity to spen this much time with each other and realize how cool each other, and especially watching my sisters.

I mean, I've just watched them in such a cool phase of their lives, we started a business together, you know, and learned instruments together and watched each other become moms.

we worked through so much that's been able to set us up to, I feel like do this longer term and be able to kind of co-parent in a way that I observe is not always easy for other siblings because it brings out all this stuff.

And, it feels like, a a huge, lifelong investment, honestly, where it feels like we're going to be able to be there for each other I'm so grateful.

So grateful because I think, we have something that's, so special that we've learned to be, loving and kind and generous with each other, not only as a band, but also as we go through motherhood and as we figure out how to be partners.

And, as we figure out how to b adult children of our parents.

and I think that that's going to make all of the subsequent life things, so much more loving.