| Weekly Davespeak : How are the studio sessions you were just in different than the ones you were in about a year ago?
Boyd Tinsley: This session that we’re in right now, we’re still involved in, is more of a group effort from the get go. In our last session, Mark [Batson] our producer would get us individually into the studio and get ideas from us. From that we would build songs and everybody would come in one at a time and put their ideas down on it.
But this session, we’ve all just gotten into the room together from the get-go. And just started playing. Dave might come up with a guitar part or I might start playing something on the violin. But we all just sort of come up with the ideas and create them as an ensemble all together rather than starting with an idea and everybody coming in afterwards one at a time. I think both ways have been cool, and its really cool we that can experiment a lot of different ways to go about writing songs.
Its been a lot of fun, Mark Batson’s a very creative producer and musician and has really helped this band grow after fifteen years we can still grow and that says a lot about Mark.
WDS: What made you guys try JTR again? It seemed like it was very well rehearsed, like you had been working on it for a while prior to the Jazzfest show.
BT: JTR was one of those songs we played for a while a few years back and sort of put it away. Like we do with a lot of our songs. We were just talking the other day--we have probably over a hundred tunes, a lot of them that we haven’t even played in years and years. That was just one of the tunes that everybody liked a lot and we just felt like we wanted to bring back. So we did a few rehearsals.
It came together really quickly, I think we only played it like two times, rehearsed it like two times before we did Jazzfest. A lot of times with songs like that they need breaks, they need breaks if we played them a lot. So that we can almost kind of forget about them and come back to them. And when we come back to them and play them, they’re fresh and it’s almost like playing a new song again. I think that’s something we’ll play a lot this summer.
WDS: Might we see a return of the other Summer ’04 songs? Like Joyride, Sugar Will, Crazy Easy at some point during the summer?
 BT: Oh, definitely. I’m sure Joyride’s coming back. We’ve talked a lot about bringing that song back a lot and it might appear this summer. And the other ones as well. We’re going to make a concerted effort, really, this summer to dig into some songs that we haven’t done in a while. That we sort of put aside and bring them out. Last year, I think What You Are is something that sort of came back into the repertoire, a few other things we hadn’t done in a while.
WDS: Like, #34?
BT: #34 came out of the blue. We didn’t even really start thinking about that or talking about bringing that in until after the tour had started. So I think even as the summer progressed somebody would say “Hey, what about this song? Let’s go back and do that.” I think you’ll see a lot of things that we haven’t done in a while appear this summer.
WDS: Might we see some other songs that were brought back in 2003, like Last Stop, Dreaming Tree, Spoon perhaps?
All those. The Dreaming Tree is another one of those songs. Last year we were beginning to work on that a little bit to bring it back in and probably just got sidetracked on something else that we were working on. But that’s a great song, Dreaming Tree, and I think that’s going to come back this year.
Spoon as well, a song that we very rarely play but it’s just a beautiful song. Its hard because we have so many songs, its really hard to choose. Because we obviously can’t on tour and practice all hundred and some songs that we have and have them up there. We have to make some choices on which ones we want to bring back. I think that all of those have good potential for being in our repertoire this summer. | 
