{"id":11014,"date":"2019-11-08T05:30:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:45:20","slug":"little-big-town-discuss-band-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/11\/little-big-town-discuss-band-dynamics\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Big Town Discuss Band Dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Facebook video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/theDanRather\/videos\/2692409907492997\/\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Dan Rather sat down with Little Big Town on his AXS-TV show &#8220;The Big Interview&#8221; and they talked about band dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>He wanted to know if Jimi Westbrook and Karen Fairchild being married causes any &#8220;imbalances&#8221; in the group.<\/p>\n<p>As you may know, Jimi and Karen didn&#8217;t become a couple until seven years after the band formed.<\/p>\n<p>As it was happening Jimi said they had to step back and ask themselves if it was the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There\u2019s a lot of layers to that. It was important for us to NOT make them feel like it was ever a couple against them. You don\u2019t want that dynamic to change. The thing we figured out is that we still function in the band like we always have.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Band Member Phillip Sweet said he saw the sparks fly back then, and actually encouraged it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I was happy. I was like, &#8216;When happiness is there for you to go get. You must seize the day.&#8217; And that&#8217;s what I was like. I was like, &#8216;Go get her. Go get your girl.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ks4D7V6xsnQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dan Rather sat down with Little Big Town on his show &#8220;The Big Interview&#8221; and they talked about band dynamics.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":11036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1433,1435,118,119,117,1436,1434],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-dan-rather","tag-jimi-westbrook","tag-karen-fairchild","tag-kimberly-schlapman","tag-little-big-town","tag-phillip-sweet","tag-the-big-interview"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 21:47:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2019\/11\/little-big-town-discuss-band-dynamics\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}