Disciple Rocks On

THE GREAT SOUTHERN TREND KILLERS

Disciple

titled its latest CD Southern Hospitality, which makes sense because vocalist Kevin Young is consistently hospitable. And being that the group is originally from Tennessee, they also have the whole Southern thing down as well. “We had a tour last year called Southern Hospitality,” Young explains. “And we just loved the title, the name. You know, we all grew up in East Tennessee. We’ve never been good at hiding the fact that we’re Southern. We sound Southern, act Southern, the whole thing.” But this disc’s naming convention has much more to do with Southern musical connotations than stereotypical Southern Belle manners. “After we’d written a couple songs for the album, they had a real Southern rock feel to them,” Young says. “I was just talking to (guitarist) Brad (Noah) one day and asked, ‘Why don’t we call the album Southern Hospitality?’ And he said, ‘That’d be awesome!’ We talked to our manager and talked to our record company, and they were, like, ‘That’s great. Let’s do it!’”