Sugarland’s Kristian Bush – HuffPost 7.29.10

Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new bands that are just starting out right now?

Kristian Bush: Here is a great example. We were just at Lilith Fair, and in the parking lot, there were a bunch of stages as well as the main stage. There was a stage in the parking lot, and there was a band on that stage called Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. A dear friend of mine who I trust said you have to catch Grace Potter. So, I go up and I walk up in the middle of the crowd full of women and watch and these guys light it up. Just killed it on a stage with a generator and a tent with people selling Luna Bars. And I sat and thought about this for days. I didn’t miss a single set of theirs, and I invited them to dinner and I now have a new band crush. I sat down and talked to them and their journey through this. It was going to be different than what my journey was for a lot of reasons. The music business they are in is six or seven years down the road from the business I started in. Even with just the fans. Go one person at a time. This is the advice I would give any band. Go up on stage, play your heart out, and work hard. Work hard at making great songs, and then go perform them because people will believe you when they see you play these things, when they see you sweat them.