Fitting a five-piece band into the Fretboard Journal offices is a tight fit. But even in their scaled-back form (they left the pedal steel and the drums in the car), Western Centuries tapped into a pure country sound that we love.

Ethan Lawton, Cahalen Morrison and Jim Miller are the three-fifths of Western Centuries in this video. Lawton does vocal and mandolin duties (FYI: he’s playing a 2007 Stan Miller-made instrument) here on the tune “In My Cups” from the stellar 2016 album, Weight of the World.