

I personally felt like John Paul was more of the ilk that things would happen organically and ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’.” In August last year they announced their split. In 2013, she told The New York Times, “I have a lot of ambition. Williams would leave the studio every 45 minutes to feed her newborn son, Miles.

They proceeded to make a second self-titled album together, but they weren’t speaking to each other at the time. On-stage chat was frosty and they announced on Facebook almost as soon as the gig was over that they had cancelled their tour, citing “internal discord and irreconcilable differences of ambition”. Joy Williams and John Paul White’s final gig was at the Roundhouse in Camden, London, in 2012. But the band’s deterioration began two years before.

Fans of the Nashville folk duo The Civil Wars will know that they broke up, or maybe imploded would be a better word, in 2014.
