The Lumineers are an American folk-rock band from Denver, Colorado. They comprise lead vocalist and guitarist Wesley Schultz, drummer Jeremiah Fraites and pianist/cellist Neyla Pekarek. Schultz and Fraites were originally based in New York and started collaborating in 2002 after Fraites' brother, Josh, who was also Schultz's best friend died of an overdose. The pair began writing and performing to cope with their grief and they later relocated to Denver, where they met the classically trained Pekarek after advertising for a cellist. The Lumineers first received national attention in December 2011, when this tender toe-tapper prominently featured at the end of an episode of the television show Hart Of Dixie. It was released digitally on February 15, 2012.
The song started climbing the Hot 100 after being used in June 2012 to soundtrack the Bing "Discovering Hawaii" commercial.
Schultz explained The Lumineers' songwriting process to American Songwriter magazine. "I write the lyrics, and I co-write the songs with Jer," he explained. "It's never the same thing with each song. Generally speaking it involves a piano, a guitar, and maybe singing, and we usually start out with the chord structure, a set of chords, a melody especially, and then the lyrics usually follow. Or it's one phrase that you really find great and then you build the song around that."
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