Lady Antebellum haven’t been resting on their laurels. Sure they might have won five Grammys and sold millions of records, but they’re already working on album number three.
“We’re a little over halfway done right now and we’re excited to get some new music out there.,” the band’s Charles Kelley told Undercover. “Again we’re just trying to keep our heads down and not over think this thing. With the success of ‘Need You Now’ everyone keeps asking us “How are you going to follow that up?” and I don’t know how to answer that. You just go in there and do what you do and hopefully it’ll be received well.
“It’ll be hard to match the same success as that and I think we just try and keep that in perspective and just keep making music that we’re proud of and it’ll take whatever course it’s going to take.”
Despite being on the road pretty consistently since the release of ‘Need You Now’, the band have been working on their next record on the road.
“We have a ProTools rig out on the road with us that we’ll put into a room like this at whatever venue we’re at and we write all the time,” Hillary Scott added. “We’ll bring out co-writers to travel with us for a few days, or the three of us write together. We were gone 300 days last year and in the process of being gone we compiled probably fifty songs that we went in and chose from to go in and cut this next album and now all of them did we write, but I’m positive 30 to 40 of them we did.”
They’re not too protective over their artwork either, having written with some of Nashville’s top songwriters. Hilary Scott explains the band’s songwriting process:
“We started writing as a band,” Scott clarifies. “That’s how the band started - the three of us sitting in a room with a piano or an acoustic guitar writing songs. You build relationships in a co-writing session, so the three of us started writing in the band and then you just start writing with other people. We write with a lot of people from Nashville Tennessee where we live and where we reside now and you just kind of find the people that you really click with and then at the same time with the position we’re in we get the chance to write with some really amazing people, so we branch out and try writing with new people as well and it’s really fun because you just never know what to expect or what kind of song is going to come out of it and there’s really no formula to writing a song, so there’s just a bunch of freedom in the process and we really enjoy it.”
The album should be out later this year.
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