Royal sons of a preacher man
They’ve left their groupie days behind but hard rocking southerners Kings Of Leon still have a bit of the devil in them.
Olaf Tyaransen, 23 Nov 2007
“Hey man! Can you hear me okay? Cool! Sorry ‘bout the noise, but we’re out looking for some, like, bedding and stuff.”
Jared Followill is wandering around a Nashville shopping mall, chatting to hotpress on his mobile phone whilst he and his girlfriend browse for some new bedding for his home. A domesticated, multi-tasking bass player! Who’da thunk it?
Being many thousands of miles away, I’m afraid I can’t tell you what the youngest King Of Leon is wearing (his accent, however, is only slightly tinged with Southern drawl) but, unless it’s a mask, I’m somewhat surprised that the 21-year-old rock star can walk around an American shopping mall unhindered and unmolested by screaming fans.
After all, with sales of their third album, Because Of The Times, now well past the two million mark, the Kings are truly in the counting house these days.
While the bulk of their sales had previously been on this side of the Atlantic, their native homeland is also starting to seriously wake up to the band's eclectically electrical charms. However, they’re obviously not yet at the stage where they’re recognised everywhere they go. Which is just dandy as far as Jared is concerned.
“It’s pretty cool over here,” he tells me. “It’s one of those things where cool people know who you are, and uncool people don’t. Not necessarily uncool people, but just, like, if you get recognised it’s usually by people who look a little bit more like us rather than just random everyday kinda people. I don’t know. It seems like some American bands get big in the UK and then you come home and you get to do your own thing and nobody recognises you.”
So you’re able to do your own shopping?
“Totally!” he laughs. “Nobody recognises you in the mall.”
Having toured almost non-stop since the album’s release earlier this year, the four Followills – Jared’s older brothers Caleb and Nathan and their cousin Matthew – are currently kicking back and chilling out at their various residences in Nashville, Tennessee. The brothers have lived here since soon after their parents’ divorce. Just that these days, they’re in bigger houses.
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