The three members of The Ballroom Thieves, Callie Peters, Martin Early, and Devin Mauch, have been making music together for a while, and they have recently released their third full length album, Unlovely. The record is a collection of songs that are mostly a reaction to events in our world and country of the last few years, and it is a wonderfully diverse swirl of folk influenced rock sounds. There is anger, and there is hope, all threaded through gorgeous, intriguing, and engaging musical landscapes. We talk with all three members about the creation of these songs. We also about their lives as a band on the road, including the years they spent as virtual vagabonds with no permanent addresses; how their approach to songwriting and creativity has changed as their personal relationships within the band have evolved, and we attempt to answer a big question-what is a song, anyway?