The way Tanya sings 'Have You a Heart' — I felt like she was singing directly to me. I looked around and half the room was holding onto each other.

As a Black man from Brooklyn, country wasn't 'mine' growing up. Michael and Tanya showed me it always was — I just hadn't been invited yet.

I'm not religious anymore, but this music makes me feel like whoever's listening upstairs is still on our side.

They played the song. Sam pulled out the ring. The whole row of strangers cheered like it was their family. That's what a War and Treaty show is.

I was going through the hardest year of my life. My friend dragged me to the Fox. By the second song I was sobbing — but it was the good kind of crying, the kind that means something inside you finally shifted.

My wife and I hadn't really talked in months. We put on Lover's Game on a road trip and by mile 80 we were both apologizing. Their music gave us the language we couldn't find.