 The band was nominated and won the Grammy Award for Best Regional Roots Music Album in January 2020.Baxter, Hamilton, Ross, and Singleton met while studying music at the College of Charleston in the 1990s, where they formed a jazz quartet called Gradual Lean.After splitting up to pursue individual careers for the following two decades, an idea came from Ross to reform the group, this time as an exploration of Gullah music, a cultural tradition from which Baxter, Hamilton, and Singleton have roots.