Matt, how easy or difficult has it been to access the feelings behind the Hum lyrics you wrote so many years ago?
Talbott: I think one of the most difficult aspects of doing a show like this is rediscovering meaning in songs you wrote a long time ago, when you were perhaps a slightly different person. The audience can’t have a legitimate emotional experience if you’re not having one, you know? Otherwise you might as well be putting your energy into a Foghat tribute band working the county fair circuit. Which, now that I think about it, actually sounds kinda cool. Maybe that’s a bad example. I’ve found it easier than I expected to access the original intent of my lyrics, and, in some cases, I find the same lyrics articulating new ideas, offering new interpretations of experiences I’ve had in the many interim years since I wrote them. It’s probably only possible because most of my stuff walks that fine line between impressionism and pure mountain gibberish. How did Chicago’s music scene influence Hum while you were writing records? Dimpsey: I don’t think that the Chicago scene influenced us, though
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