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They said, 'All right, we'll come down in one month and see you guys.'" Later in the interview Caleb admitted to the brothers "kidnapping" their cousin Matthew from his hometown in Mississippi for him to join the band. Caleb will teach himself the guitar, Matthew played guitar when he was 10 and I'll play the drums. We're going to buy our little brother a bass, he's a freshman in high school. In an interview with Billboard, however, Nathan outlined how they told RCA, "We don't want to be Evan and Jaron. They named the band after their grandfather Leon, who died in January 2014.īy 2002, Nathan and Caleb had received interest from a number of music labels and eventually signed with RCA Records, which initially insisted on putting a band together for the two of them. When he and their cousin Matthew also moved to Nashville in 1999, Kings of Leon was formed. Jared, who had briefly attended public school, was more influenced by the music of the Pixies and the Velvet Underground. While there, they met songwriter Angelo Petraglia, who helped the siblings hone their songwriting skills and introduced them to the musical influences of Thin Lizzy, the Rolling Stones and the Clash in particular. When the boys' father resigned from preaching and their parents divorced in 1997, Nathan and Caleb relocated to outside Nashville and originally embraced country music. Except for a five-year period when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills' childhoods were spent driving through the southern United States in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, camping for a week or two wherever Ivan was scheduled to preach. They were either home-schooled by their mother, or enrolled in small parochial schools at this time. According to Rolling Stone magazine, "While Ivan preached at churches and tent revivals throughout Oklahoma and the Deep South, his boys attended services and were occasionally enlisted to bang on some drums".
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Jared attended Mount Juliet High School, while Matthew was born and raised in Mississippi. Nathan was born in Oklahoma, and Jared and Caleb were born in and around Memphis, Tennessee.
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The three Followill brothers (Matthew is their cousin) grew up in Oklahoma and Tennessee with their father, Ivan Leon Followill, a United Pentecostal Church preacher, and their mother, Betty-Ann.