Before getting into their emotional, twelfth studio album, 'It’s A Dying Art,' which arrives everywhere on August 28, Little Big Town stepped into the strange and supernatural during a talk with Katie Neal.
Beginning with the haunting legends of a historic Franklin home where they once recorded, the band shared a terrifying tale about "Beulah," the resident ghost they believe once flooded their studio, threatening precious analog tapes and artifacts.
“I'd left the studio last that night and there's a little bathroom upstairs in the office side of the studio, and I turned the light off, faucets off, shut the door,” shares Philip Sweet. “Karen gets there the next morning, first thing, and the lights are on in that bathroom, faucet's full blast, and it was flooding water pouring through the ceiling fan downstairs.”
“All I could think was like, ‘oh my gosh, if water got into the studio,’” Karen Fairchild gasps. “I ran in there and it was like the water stopped right at the kitchen door.”
“Fast forward to someone that is like a ghost historian… said that water is the way that ghosts communicate tears,” reveals Karen. “We were cutting a song called ‘Evangeline’ about an abused woman. So, anyhow, Beulah, we didn't ever think she wasn't our friend, but, she was there.”
No ghosts were encountered in the making of Little Big Town’s new album, 'It’s A Dying Art,' but very present is the band’s desire to create hope in dark times. “Maybe ‘we could have it all’ probably sums up the sentiment of the whole record,” Karen says. “That there's hope in the darkest of days, you know, and you'll get up again, and it's about all the little journeys and the nooks and crannies of life.”
The title comes from a track on the project, which Sweet says captures the true connection of Little Big Town. “With all that's going on and changing in music and AI and all that, what we really love is being human and making human connection with the band and the writers and the sounds, and you know, being human.”
For much more from Little Big Town, check out the full 'Superstar Power Hour' interview above.
