In the summer of 2006, three gifted young adults walked into a house hoping to
create music together—and Lady Antebellum walked out.
The sound that
Hillary Scott, Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood cooked up while hanging at the
Nashville-area home of Charles’ brother throughout the summer of 2006 is a
unique blend that mingles classic country, 1960s R&B soulfulness and the
heart-on-the-sleeve openness of 1970s singer-songwriters, all presented with a
razor-sharp contemporary edge. It’s a sound that had Lady Antebellum, as the
threesome dubbed itself, generating deafening buzz as one of modern country’s
brightest hopes even before the release of their new self-titled debut album.