We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Hometown Gold a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hometown, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Did you always know you wanted to pursue a creative or artistic career? When did you first know?

We grew up in a family full of musicians. Our whole childhood we followed our Loveless and Benefiel families around watching them play music. If we weren’t listening to them practice or perform, we were busy putting on shows of our own. One key memory from childhood is one night we performed “Life is a Highway” from the Cars soundtrack, and a heartfelt original titled “I Miss the Games” written by Hunter and I (Austin) about a local pizza joint in our town getting rid of their arcade games. Mom and Dad were so happy to see us having fun and taking interest in “The family business” as we like to call it.

Hometown, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

We are Hometown Gold, 2 brothers from a small town in Indiana who share the same passion for music and also have the same goals for our future in the music scene.

That main catalyst that pushed us to pursue our dreams of getting our original music heard was meeting Chase Matthew after one of his shows in Dugger, IN. He took us backstage and we showed him one of our songs. He liked it and encouraged us to keep writing and putting songs out, even if nobody listened to them he said to just keep putting more out. Eventually somebody will listen. The very next day we had a studio booked to record our first song “No Place like Home” which today is sitting at 14,000+ streams on Spotify alone.

What sets us apart from most in today’s music scene is our songs are relatable. They are about real events, going on in real time, that are actually being lived out by us or people we know.

We are most proud of our fans, it is such a blessing to us when people tell us they like our music, or our favorite thing to hear is from our mother about our youngest brother: “Riglee has been listening to you guys all day!”

We would like our fans to know that we always strive to do better. We aim to up the quality with every lyric we write, chord we play, and track we record. We want nothing more than to put out great music and have a good time with our people

In your view, what can society to do to best support artists, creatives and a thriving creative ecosystem?

Support local!! That goes for Local talent, business, organizations, ect.

Go to their events, most of them are free to attend at the local level. Everyone wants to know someone that made it but rarely does anything to support them making it. This could easily and needs to change.

Follow their pages on social media, “Like and Share” their posts. Tell your friends and family. These are all FREE things society can do to support the creative ecosystem

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

A lesson we had to unlearn is that “You don’t need a click”

This pertains to metronomes (click tracks)

In our cover bands and family groups growing up we always heard “you don’t need a click, that’s what the drummer is for” which at the time made perfect sense.. Until we began recording and learned quickly that a click track is a very important tool for not only recording music, but performing with backing tracks and timed visuals as well.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hometowngold_official?igsh=MWp2aWVwZnR2c3Flcg==
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/14EooKGfXpJ/
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@hometowngold3409?si=IYbNSBrnkcWTw0Q9

Image Credits

Matthew Barrett
Query Productions