Futurebirds

can be accessed from futurebirdsmusic.com). Tickets will also be available as a bundle to include a remastered version of the band’s 2010 debut, “Hampton’s Lullaby,” soon to be released on vinyl for the first time. (The first 200 fans will receive a double album with bonus material printed on translucent red vinyl from Kindercore Vinyl in Athens).

In another bid to ease back into normalcy, Futurebirds are still selling tickets and are cautiously optimistic that their “Teamwork Retreat” — announced last fall — will take place Labor Day weekend at Pilot Cove in Brevard, North Carolina.

Last week, the band’s Daniel Womack (originally from Waynesboro who now lives in Savannah), Carter King (from Atlanta, but resides in Nashville) and Thomas Johnson (a Gwinnett County native stationed in Athens) gathered for a Zoom chat.

What have you been doing while at home?

Daniel Womack: So much has happened these first few months. The first few weeks, we were trying to get used to the live streaming bubble. We’ve caught a stride now.

Thomas Johnson: Over the years, we’ve done a pretty good job accumulating a lot of content, whether recorded live shows or differ- ent other things we’ve accumulated, but it’s always been a step away from being able to put out. I’ve been spending a lot of time mixing live shows to hopefully put out there really soon. Our debut album, “Hampton’s Lullaby,” was never released on vinyl, so that’s going to come out hopefully on its 10-year anniversary ( July 27) or mid-tolate summer. That took a little bit of work, remastering and doing some art things. We released a side project of mine that Carter is also in

Athens-based Futurebirds released a new album in January, “Teamwork,” to celebrate their 10th anniversary as a band. A tour to support it was interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic.

— The Interns — that is live on Spotify. We’re trying to make the most of it and get some stuff out there and set ourselves up for whenever we can tour again.

Carter King: For so long, I was of the mindset if we weren’t constantly moving, that I wasn’t being productive. It’s been nice to have this mandated that you have to stay in the same place. It’s also been a nice refocusing of how we operate.

I’ve been asking musicians what they miss. Is it the gas stations for you guys? (The band expresses their affinity for gas stations while driving the country on tour in a YouTube video commemorating their 10th anniversary.)

Womack: Road trips in general, we miss that. It’s funny how the gas stations evolve as you travel the country. We waste a lot of time in gas stations. We haven’t taken this long of a break from touring, and we’re ready to get back out there. We were just getting the hang of it, and we’ve maximized all potential fun to be had touring! We had just started on a big tour that was set to be a really fun one. Two days in it got pulled, and (we had) to drive

all the way back across the country. It felt like apocalyptic times.

King: (Laughs) I might have gas station PTSD for a little while.

Tell me about the May 29 livestream from Tweed.

Johnson: The guy who owns (Tweed), Andrew (Ratcliffe), moved to Athens and opened this studio downtown. It’s a really cool space. One half is a recording engineer school, and the other is a functioning studio. He’s a sucker for old analog gear, and they have a 150-person (capacity) venue. They have plenty of space for us to spread out, and we’re going to keep the people in the room to a minimum. It will be us, a couple of people in a mixing room that’s separate from the venue and someone at the back of the venue running monitors. The video people will be spread out, and we’ll be spread out on stage. It’s exciting because we haven’t played together in a long time. I haven’t seen any full band stuff out there (online). As much as I love seeing this single (musician) acoustic stuff, the well is starting to run dry on that. I think there’s a lot of momentum of wanting to see a full band thing again.