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What makes a band immortal?

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 11

What keeps a musical legacy burning brightly when the hit parade dies down?

Theres gotta be a style and story.

The bands legacy is internecine drama igniting musical chemistry.

Its serenading tens of thousands with pained verses while rolling your eyes at the heartbreaker at stage left.

Exhausted ballads from the folk-rockers in this tinderbox pay respect to the real-world catalog they cant touch.

They track as a touring Americana outfit.

This is all incredible kismet.

Butler just so happens to be a restless, pliable stylist.

During Brights fierce but dejected bridge, she favors country-rock icons like Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt.

You wait for these songs to try something tacky but they never manage to elicit a shiver.

Seven Roads deals in timeless, smoldering roadhouse blues, but Masquerade cant shake the weight of The Chain.

These 20th century folk-rock simulacra display impressive attention to period-specific sonic details.

Theyre summoning the ghost of a band, and they probably dont want to get sued.

She delivered an ultimatum, and he got the boot.