It was a terrible name. The Lumineers stopped by NPR's offices on Monday (April 6) for a lively Tiny Desk Concert highlighting their 2019 album III.. Little did I know it would even end up on an album, but it’s really cool you picked up on the meaning. You would look at those a year or two later, see what was good and build off of that. 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During an interview, The Lumineers also mentioned how the name "Angela" comes from lead singer Wesley Schultz's ex-girlfriend Angela Henard; noting: You can get lyrics writing advice, prompts, discounts on courses, and sometimes even 1-on-1 help. Also we never really had a song end with the same turn of phrase. Share. We’re following you around! You can take your time to do the song live the way you want to do it or do a take that is meaningful. How were you able to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump? It was really well cast. Well maybe we weren’t sophomores. Lately it’s been, “Long Way From Home.” That is a song about losing my dad. All the tracks live in the same universe but they are very separate. Then in a weird coincidence, we bought our first home this April, from our realtor, named Ophelia. The core band consists of Wesley Schultz on guitar and lead vocals, Jeremiah Fraites on drums, percussion, mandolin and vocals, and Neyla Pekarek on cello, mandolin, piano, and vocals, with added musicians for tours. A good song will translate whether it’s a baron or sparse arrangement or whether it’s built up. Each song on the album has an accompanying video, all of which make up a film when strung together, Ginsberg said. It was just really compelling. The Lumineers have said that the song "Angela," is about "a small town success story struggling to escape her past." It was cool, I think, accidentally to have somewhere to go from the first album to the second album. But he wasn’t sure. Who Is Neyla Pekarek? You’ll have to wait and see. Lead singer has great voice but that quality sometimes cannot rise above the actual song. TORONTO (Reuters) -Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou's alleged actions had "no genuine connection" to the United States, her lawyers have argued in their latest bid to end her extradition from Canada, according to court documents released on Friday. The Lumineers will donate the profits from their show in Dallas on Feb. 28 to Planned Parenthood Greater Texas. In this case we took six months to just work out all the demos and the demoing process. First off The Lumineers’ lead singer Wesley Schultz has explicitly stated that the song “Gloria” “is about the love between an addict and her family”. Since then fans have been ravenous for a follow up to The Lumineers’ wildly successful, self-titled debut album. HIS LEFT HAND forming chords on an acoustic guitar, frontman Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers kneels by a plastic kiddie pool in the backyard of the 100-year-old Denver home he shares with his wife Brandy, their 18-month-old son Lenny and a kinetic pair of French bulldogs named Ethel and Baby Ray Davies. Before The Lumineers, they were best known as 6Cheek. Tweet. 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