We always play with energy and I think that translates to everyone who is sharing it with us. Basically it's just a party. We just are up there having fun and drinking and whooping and everyone hopefully goes along for the ride.

They're amazing. We always know they're behind us. We feed off their energy.

When we practice we mostly just drink beer and go over some songs. Basically the live shows are where we learn. Every time we play we experiment and get better.

It's live at Delta Venus for a reason. Delta has been our starting point and we owe a lot to that place. We played there every week for over a year and a half and it's basically built us a following in Davis and really helped us learn the whole time.

The Americana scene in Davis is really taking off. There are live shows every Thursday and Friday [at Delta of Venus]. It's free all the time and everyone is really getting into it. The whole town has been real supportive of the whole thing.

'The room service is what saved us,' I remember him really going on about that. We were kind of shocked he was giving us so much information.