![]() ![]() "We're very competitive and we push each other." Deemed the Southern Strokes upon the release of their 2003 debut, Youth and Young Manhood, the quartet evolved from swaggering rock 'n' roll to a keyboard-dappled sound on 2008's Only by the Night. ![]() "There's something that keeps you going and keeps pushing you, especially when you're in a band with your family," Caleb told Apple Music in 2016. But after linking with guitarist cousin Matthew to form Kings of Leon in 1999, the Followills found yet another advantage to their upbringing: their natural familial rivalries galvanised their creativity. To some extent, Kings of Leon have been preparing for the rigours of being a touring rock band from birth: three-quarters of the Nashville group-brothers Caleb, Nathan and Jared Followill-had a nomadic childhood, traveling the American South with their Pentecostal preacher father. ![]()
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