It's live at Delta Venus for a reason. Delta has been our starting point and we owe a lot to that place. We played there every week for over a year and a half and it's basically built us a following in Davis and really helped us learn the whole time.

When we practice we mostly just drink beer and go over some songs. Basically the live shows are where we learn. Every time we play we experiment and get better.

We always play with energy and I think that translates to everyone who is sharing it with us. Basically it's just a party. We just are up there having fun and drinking and whooping and everyone hopefully goes along for the ride.

The Americana scene in Davis is really taking off. There are live shows every Thursday and Friday [at Delta of Venus]. It's free all the time and everyone is really getting into it. The whole town has been real supportive of the whole thing.

One reason we want to collect the use tax and have been very aggressive about it is that 100 percent of the sales tax goes to education--the use tax does too.

We first started out in a man and for some reason we weren't rotating and they were screening and cutting but we went to a zone and matched out of it. Then we went back to man to man but they didn't run the same thing when we did it so the pattern was easier to cover. We were fortunate that they cooled off a little bit.