Caleb Followill

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Date of Birth 14 January 1982, Memphis, Tennessee, USA Birth Name Anthony Caleb Followill Caleb: Our father was a United Pentecostal evangelist, so we pretty much grew up on the road, in between Oklahoma City and Memphis, back and forth, up until about '98. Jared and I were born in Memphis; Nathan and Matthew were born in Oklahoma. Nathan: Growing up, we didn't have an actual home. We stayed with relatives, one place or the other. We lived out of the back of our car; oh man, I'd say there were at least five of those cars. Four of those fourteen years we had a travel trailer; the other ten, the church would either put us up in a hotel, or we would stay at the pastor's house, or a parsonage. We grew up doing that pretty much our whole lives. Our dad pastored a church in Mumford, TN, from 1986 until 1992. That's about 30 minutes outside of Memphis -- real country, Tipton County, the most redneck place you'll ever see in your life. That's the first place that we ever got to go to a school more than one year with the same classmates. We went to a little private school there for, like, four years. But when I say private school, I mean that between 12th grade and kindergarten there were maybe 40 kids in the whole school. Pentecostal school. The rest of the time, we were home-schooled. Caleb: Then we moved to Nashville two-and-half years ago. We started writing songs. Got a publishing deal. About a year later we signed our deal with RCA in New York. Nathan: I first started pl

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