Sara Watkins, Aoife O'Donovan and Sarah Jarosz were each established solo artists raised in the technical world of bluegrass before a 2014 vocal workshop at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival revealed how their voices blended. This episode traces the trio's history, including the decade-wide age gap, Jarosz meeting Watkins at a festival when she was nine, O'Donovan noticing her mature playing at 15, and the jam-circle etiquette that made them equals rather than mentor and student.

The hosts cover their first show at Celtic Connections in Scotland in January 2015, a four-day Los Angeles writing session, the eight-day Vermont farmhouse retreat in December 2015, the coincidence of sharing a name with a 2016 presidential campaign slogan, and recording See You Around at Real World Studios in Bath with Ethan Johns just three weeks later. They discu ...