“It Becomes A Selfless Thing” – The Red Clay Strays’ Collective Belief In God Will Make It Impossible For Them To Ever Break Up

The Red Clay Strays aren’t afraid to say it…. they aren’t ever going to break up.

There’s a lot that goes into why the band from Mobile, Alabama feels that way. They’ve grown a lot together since they formed in late 2016, when frontman Brandon Coleman says they were clearing out bars because people didn’t like how they sounded.

Bet most of those people would stay right where they were with hindsight, eh?

The good news is that the people that originally didn’t care for The Red Clay Strays should have plenty of time to see them. That’s because Coleman doesn’t ever see the group breaking apart, and frankly doesn’t understand how some bands break up, as he explained on The Joe Rogan Experience:

“I don’t understand why bands break up. I don’t get it.”

Rogan cited that egos, internal conflicts, stress, traveling, and different personalities are often to blame for bands calling it quits. And think about it… some of the biggest bands in the history of the world have broken up (The Beatles, most famously). It almost seems inevitable for bands to have an expiration date.

But Coleman disagrees, and thinks that as long as the band has their priorities in order, a break up shouldn’t ever happen:

“I think you’ve got to have your mindset correct. For us, it’s a God thing. If you are just chasing worldly things, and worried about ‘me’ and how I’m getting done wrong or how he’s getting on my nerves, and that’s what dictates your decisions… I could see (that). You are gonna walk away from that. Because people suck and people are always going to fail you at the end of the day.

But when you turn it into a ‘I’m not doing this for me, I’m doing this to fulfill my calling that God’s given me,’ then it becomes a selfless thing. ‘He who is greatest among you, let him be your servant’ is what always pops in my head. If I want to make this thing work, how can I serve these guys?”

The Red Clay Strays frontman then offered up a story of how, in the early days of the band when they would all share one hotel room, the guys would fight over who got to sleep on the floor. There certainly seems to be a selflessness that’s contagious amongst the Red Clay Stray bandmates, and that’s why Coleman confidently thinks they’ll always be together:

“When everyone shares that mindset, and everyone is worried about one another, I don’t really see how you could break up.”

As to where that mindset came from, the band credits growing up knowing Jesus and having a relationship with God for treating their roles in the band with such equal footing. They do really feel as though they are being called by God to do what they are doing, and there are some real world examples that support that idea.

Brandon Coleman first pointed out that they make music for a certain type of person:

“Our fanbase is a lot of sad people. A lot of depressed people. Lot of people who are suicidal. We make music for that fanbase, and you’re not gonna hear that at a country music festival on the beach.”

He then backed that up with a story that could have ended in tragedy, yet didn’t because of one of their songs. The Red Clay Strays have fans reach out to them all the time, and one woman sent them an email detailing how “I’m Still Fine” saved her life:

“We get messages everyday. We had one lady who sent us an email saying she decided to off herself, take a lot of pills and she wanted to ‘go to sleep’ listening to music. As she was laying there waiting to take the ‘big nap,’ our song ‘I’m Still Fine’ came on. And it snapped her out of it a little bit.

She started crying and immediately regretted it, got up and called her sister and told her sister what she had just did. They rushed her to the hospital and did whatever at the hospital for someone who takes a lot of pills at once and saved her life. It was so moving. That’s what makes it really worth it for us.”

A really powerful message right there. Here’s to hoping that The Red Clay Strays truly never break up, so that they can keep bringing music into the world that has the power to save lives.

And speaking of bringing new music into the world, the fellas are gearing up to release a new single this coming Friday, titled “People Hatin’.” A song that was penned earlier this year, the assassination of Charlie Kirk inspired them to kick off the new album with it. This Friday, October 3rd… get ready.

You can hear more from The Red Clay Strays in the latest episode of The Joe Rogan Experience below:

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