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Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, United States (2000 – present)

Kings of Leon are a Grammy Award-winning alternative/garage rock band which formed in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, United States in 2000 . The band consists of brothers Nathan Followill (drums/backing vocals), Caleb Followill (vocals/rhythm guitar), Jared Followill (bass) and their cousin Matthew Followill (lead guitar).

The group’s name is derived from Nathan, Caleb, and Jared’s father and grandfather, both named Leon. Jared and Caleb were born in Tennessee, while Nathan and Matthew were born in Oklahoma. The brothers spent much of their youth travelling around the south with their father, a traveling Pentecostal Church preacher and their mother, who taught them when they were not in school. According to Rolling Stone magazine, “While Leon preached at churches and tent revivals throughout the Deep South, the boys attended services and were occasionally enlisted to bang on some drums. They were home-schooled or enrolled in small parochial schools. Except for a five-year stretch when they settled in Jackson, Tennessee, the Followills spent their childhoods driving through the South in a purple 1988 Oldsmobile, decamping for a week or two wherever Leon was scheduled to preach.”

Kings of Leon’s first release, The Holy Roller Novocaine EP came out in 2003. Four of its five songs would later be released on Youth and Young Manhood, with the songs “California Waiting” and “Wasted Time” being remade.
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Kings of Leon's "Only by The Night" album becomes the biggest selling digital album…

10 Feb 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/kingsofleon

As of this week, "Only By The Night" has sold 133,155 digital albums passing Amy Winehouse's "Back to Black" as the biggest selling digital album EVER in the UK! Congratulations to Kings of Leon for t. …

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