It’s been 13 years since Lady Antebellum introduced themselves to country music fans with their debut single, “Love Don’t Live Here,” which came out in 2007. Since then, each of the band members –– Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood –– have gotten married, had children and weathered plenty of both personal and professional storms. What they haven’t done is split up, which Hillary says is because of their close personal and professional bond.
“I think the foundation is we just really respect what we’ve built and who we’ve built it with, and that what we have is so much more than the sum of its parts as a band,” Hillary shared with Big Machine Label Group. “And I think there are just seasons of life, like when you go through hard times, no matter if it’s personal, career, or whatever, where the people around you just have to hope for you cause you have a hard time finding it yourself. I think there were some definite moments of that, of like other people looking and saying, ‘This is special. Remember this. Think about all of the different things.’
“And that’s just good to do in life in general, when you’re just in a time of just struggling to understand why things happen,” she continued. “It’s so beautiful how our community and our team and our friends and family just rallied around us through that and hoped for us.”
Some of those personal struggles included Hillary’s miscarriage, and Charles’ attempt to get some of his personal issues under control, including drinking too much, which he opens up about in the song “Be Patient With My Love,” from their latest Ocean album.
“‘Be Patient With My Love’ is hands down, the most personal, brutally honest song I’ve ever written,” Charles said in an interview posted on YouTube. “I just was having this little internal struggle, and it’s interesting how foreshadowing that song ended up being, because I did kind of end up hitting many little rock bottoms after I wrote this song. It was the second song I wrote that day, with Dave Barnes and Ben West.”
“It was a part of time in my life where I was really struggling with my spirituality,” he continued. “It’s interesting now, the song means so much more now to me than it did at the time, because I think at the time, I didn’t really feel it as much. I just kind of knew it sounded brutally honest, but I wasn’t really at this point in my life where I was willing to change.”
Lady Antebellum recently announced they were canceling their Ocean 2020 Tour, which was to include Jake Owen and Maddie & Tae. Purchase Ocean via Amazon