They’ve recorded five studio albums, one live album, and one documentary soundtrack. Because so many of those stages were located in Texas, Stages is also a lively ode to the Lone Star State and its culture of live music. In that bluebonnets-and-Shiner-Bock context that album title could be a shout-out to Willie Nelson and his 1974 album Phases and Stages. Somehow those words in that order had never been used in a country song before, which seems miraculous. “Stages is the album we set out to make 12 years ago,” says Wystrach.