Kings Of Leon
May 23, 2011
Tennessee's Kings Of Leon want to go 'Back Down South', now impacting Rock, on the latest single from their 'Come Around Sundown'
album released in 2010.
The slow track opens with slide guitar and violin creating a somber tone. It's a welcome change of pace from the arena-rock direction of the band's recent music.
'Come Around Sundown,' has already produced hit singles 'Radioactive' and 'Pyro.'
The band's "Talihina Sky," documentary will serve as the inaugural film of the 2011 Center Film Festival, starting June 8th. The festival will continue through June 12 at seven locations in downtown Oklahoma City. The event is free and open to the public, and a question-and-answer session with director Stephen Mitchell will take place following the film.
"Talihina Sky," which follows the band as it travels to a family reunion in Talihina, tells the story of the brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill, who spent their childhood with their itinerant Pentecostal preacher father, traveling a circuit between Tennessee and Oklahoma before forming Kings of Leon in 1999 with their cousin, Matthew Followill.
After achieving critical acclaim for the band's first two albums, 2003's "Youth and Young Manhood" and 2005's "Aha Shake Heartbreak," Kings of Leon vaulted to stadium status with its breakthrough albums, "Because of the Times" and "Only By the Night."
