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The Ain’t Sisters are one of the raddest\u00a0and most versatile groups Atlanta has to offer. Whether playing as an acoustic duo in front of a crowd of fifty at The Red Light Cafe, or captivating audience as a rockin’ quartet, they bring passion, charisma, raw bravado, and a certain indescribable “oomph” to the music.<\/p>\n

The dynamic duo – aka Barb Carbon and Arrie Bozeman – sat down with\u00a0Audiofemme\u00a0<\/em>to discuss their latest record,\u00a0Marrow.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

AF:<\/strong> Thanks for taking the time to talk with us! We know The Ain’t Sisters had an incredible start. Do you mind sharing that story?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BC:\u00a0<\/strong>Arrie and I have been friends for close to 15 years. When I met her, she was just a teenager playing lead guitar for the first time for our friend Hollin Gammage. She played some shows with me over the years, backing me up on lead guitar. Over time, we became best friends, and in 2012, we were on a trip to Folly Beach, South Carolina, and we spent a lot of time playing street guitar that week. People kept coming up to us and saying to one of us or the other, “You and your sister are so good!” We, of course, are not sisters.<\/p>\n

Jokingly, we said we should start a band and call it The Ain\u2019t Sisters. That joke persisted, and when we got back to Atlanta, she taught me how to play her songs and we started booking some shows under that name. Two years later, we had added a bass player and a drummer, and the rest is history. You\u2019re always supposed to say that at the end of the story, right?<\/p>\n

AB:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>We got into a bit of a situation with the cops at Folly Beach over illegal busking, and Barb told one of them he probably had a small penis.<\/p>\n

AF: <\/strong>How did you initially get into music? What made you decide to join together to form The Ain’t Sisters?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BC:\u00a0<\/strong>Music always felt like a part of me. Growing up in my parents’ house, I was exposed to good stuff. My dad listened to the Beatles and The Highwaymen. Both of my big brothers played guitar and I was always trying to get my hands on one myself. When I was 14, we moved, and the new house had an outbuilding with a bunch of crap in it. The landlord said I could play with whatever I found in there, and, lo and behold, I found a shitty old guitar. The strings were about 2 inches off of the neck and it sounded horrible, but I was determined to learn how to play. I never really had much support musically, so I\u2019ve always had to scrap and scrape and make do. I suppose I still do that. It was a good place to start because I\u2019ve never taken anything for granted.<\/p>\n

AB:\u00a0<\/strong>I’m just here for the ladies. We formed The Ain’t Sisters to confuse straight women and make men wish they had vaginas. We’re sort of like a new facet of feminism.<\/p>\n

AF:<\/strong> You recently released a record,\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Marrow.\u00a0What was the creative process like?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

BC:\u00a0<\/strong>Ha! Long. We started talking about making the record in early 2015. In November of that year, our friend and engineer, Critter, gave us a push. He said, \u201cWe\u2019re going into the studio next week.\u201d We were so not ready. We didn\u2019t have solid arrangements. We hadn\u2019t done any pre-production. Luckily, we recorded at Woodridge Studios, which is a small home studio that is run by a friend of ours, Phil Abbate. He and Critter both gave us extraordinarily reasonable rates, so in the end, it didn\u2019t completely break us to have to do most of our pre-production in studio. It was the most massive learning experience. Some of us had more prior experience than others, but in this particular scenario, we were all learning as we went to some extent. We got lucky and were able to make it all come together in the end, but we didn\u2019t end up putting the record out until this past November. Three years! That\u2019s a long incubation period.<\/p>\n

AB:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>I got nicknamed TC in the studio. TC stands for Tyrannical C*nt. I think we almost killed Critter, and the band for that matter. I personally had a great time, and I’m thrilled with our results.<\/p>\n

AF:<\/strong>\u00a0What inspires the music?\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

BC:\u00a0<\/strong>Life. Isn\u2019t that the consummate answer? Haha. I would say that, for me, writing tends to be an outward expression of my emotions and my philosophies. I\u2019m a thinker. It never stops. I\u2019m always chugging away on some idea or exploring a new concept. Occasionally I just have a great line pop into my head and I\u2019ll build a song around it, but more often I\u2019m ruminating on a situation in my life… a relationship, an adventure I\u2019m having, stuff like that. I think a few of my best songs have come from a dark place. I write happy, hopeful songs to try and cheer myself up. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn\u2019t. Either way, I usually get a good tune out of the deal.<\/p>\n

AB:\u00a0<\/strong>When someone asks, “If ya ain’t sisters, what are ya??”<\/p>\n