Mac discovered her love for music digging through her parents' record collection, emerging and adorning herself with not just the tunes, but the entire look and aesthetic of the music Mecca, Laurel Canyon. Drawing inspiration from Linda Ronstadt, Gram Parsons, Jackson Browne and Buffalo Springfield, she began forging her own songs and style from her bouts with love, loss, tragedy and tranquillity.

Rich has been making up fanciful, thoughtful, stories from the very beginning. Her whimsy and mastery derive from a childhood spent spinning tales and entertaining herself in the woods and ocean of rural Maine, which is sparsely populated. Rich spent a lot of time on the road in the backseat with her sister driving from place to place with their parents. To pass the time, Rich told long, intricate stories, picking up where she left off each time they piled back into the car.