Jay Buchanan’s return to his roots defined Rival Sons’ new album, “Feral Roots.”

Buchanan moved his family to a wooded part of Franklin, Tennessee, south of Nashville. “Moving out here really informed so much of my writing,” Buchanan tells Billboard. “I grew up in the woods…and growing up that way really doesn’t leave you. You don’t get used to the stoplights and you don’t get used to the traffic and all the stimuli of the city. That wilderness and that silence is something that you carry with you.”

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