The new EP from LANco, called Extended Play, is available now! The new release features 4 songs, including “We Do,” “Trouble Maker,” “American Love Story,” and the band’s debut single “Long Live Tonight.” The EP is produced by Jay Joyce–who’s known for also working with Eric Church, Little Big Town, and Carrie Underwood. LANco got to work with Jay after a chance meeting between him and LANco’s lead singer Brandon Lancaster. Brandon recalls how he was working at a concert venue in Nashville, and saw Jay walk by, so Brandon stopped him and told him about the band, which led to a collaborative effort to creative new music.

When you listen to the EP, if “American Love Story” sounds like you’ve heard it before you might be watching Netflix’s new original series The Ranch, starring Ashton Kutcher, and Sam Elliott. “American Love Story” is featured in Episode 9 of the series–titled There Goes My Life. The song is subtle in the background of the scene and then gradually gets louder closing out the episode and the credits. “American Love Story,” along with “We Do,” “Trouble Maker” and LANco’s debut single “Long Live Tonight” are available now on the EP, Extended Play.

  Brandon from LANco shares the story of how a chance meeting with producer Jay Joyce, led to getting a record deal. (1:30)
“I was working in arena in downtown Nashville selling hotdogs at a concession stand, and I was working my register when I noticed a guy walk who I recognized by the name of Jay Joyce, who is a producer Nashville. He had worked on all kinds of acts that I love from Eric Church, to Little Big Town, to even Cage The Elephant. When I saw him walk by, I closed down my register, and introduced myself, really just as a fan more than anything. And we kind of just started talking about music and he asked me ‘so you’re an artist, a writer, what are you doing?’ I was like ‘yeah, I’m in a band, and I write.’ He was like  ‘you guys should come by and play me some music some time.’ So, a few weeks later the band went in there and set up there in a circle, and started playing him some music. We got about four songs in before he just said ‘all right, let’s cut a record. Let’s just do it, let’s cut a record.’ So, we cut a record a couple months later, and then we had this record, and didn’t really know what to do with it, we didn’t have a label or anything like that, we just had this music. So, we got ourselves an RV and hit the road, and just start playing to anyone is willing to listen, and then we just kinda built this underground following and this fanbase. We had a show in Nashville that was going to be an independent single release and some people from Sony came out, the President, and some A&R people, and after the show, we walked off stage and in our green room they’re hanging out there, and said they were paying attention and loved what we did, and want to be a part of it, so they offered us a deal after that. The rest is history.”

  Brandon from LANco explains the band’s name. (:21)
“The name of the band stands for ‘Lancaster and Company.’ My name is Brandon Lancaster and so when I start putting the band together, I didn’t necessarily want to be a solo thing, I wanted to be a band. So, we kind of started going under the name ‘Lancaster and Company’ and then our friends started calling it LANco, and we started calling it LANCo, and it rolls off the tongue a little easier. So, we just went with LANco.”

  Brandon from LANco talks about the feedback fans are sending the band about their single “Long Live Tonight”–which can be found on their new EP, Extended Play. (:31)
“We’ve seen a lot on social media, and different social networks, people tweeting us throughout the day ‘just found my new summer jam,’ ‘this is our song,’ ‘#longlivetonight,’ whatever it may be. So, that’s been really fun, and it’s a newer song so we’re just now starting to see that. But it’s been really cool cause we can tell that we actually have a chance at being an anthem the way that we grew up on a lot of different anthems, there are a lot of different songs that are the soundtracks of our lives…and this song has a chance to be the soundtrack to someone’s life, someone’s summer, so that’s really cool for us as musicians.”