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Miss Willie Brown can attest to the truth of the old saying "Sometimes the best plan is to have a little good luck." How else to explain the fate that brought Amanda Watkins of West Virginia and Kasey Buckley of Texas together? Kasey wasn't even a singer when the two first met, both working at a Los Angeles diner to earn some cash while they sought their big breaks.
A friendship formed, then a writing partnership that fused their eclectic musical tastes into a signature sound. Now the pair are signed to A&M/Octone Records, are on the 2011 Jägermeister Country tour with Dierks Bentley and Josh Thompson and are looking ahead to the release of a full-length album next year.
Just before they boarded the bus to head out on tour, the two took a short break to talk to The Boot about how the stars aligned for them.
The two of you met in Los Angeles yet opted to write country music. Why not indie rock or pop, which seem to fuel the L.A. music scene?
Kasey: It literally wasn't a decision. It is just what happened, what we gravitated naturally toward. It wasn't like we said, 'We should be a rock band.' We started writing songs and they were what they were. It just came naturally to us, country, and how our voices meld.
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