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Become a member (it's FREE) at https://digtb.us/signup Buy official DTB merch at http://digtb.us/merch  On this episode of DTB’s “Stage Threads”, Kenny Hensley, keyboardist of the indie folk band, The Head and The Heart, shows you his stage outfits and discusses how his style connects to the music and the stories behind the clothing he wears during performances. The Head and the Heart is currently supporting their newest album, Aperture.  VIDEO INFO: Film Date - August 8, 2025 Location - The Salt Shed in Chicago, IL  KEEP UP WITH THE HEAD AND THE HEART: Facebook - https://facebook.com/theheadandtheheart Instagram - https://instagram.com/theheadandtheheart Twitter - https://twitter.com/headandtheheart  FOLLOW US: Website/Email List - https://www.digitaltourbus.com/#/portal/signup YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/digitaltourbus Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/digitaltourbus/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@digitaltourbus Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/digitaltourbus/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/digitaltourbus Pinterest - https://www.pinterest.com/digitaltourbus/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/digital-tour-bus-llc Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/user/digitaltourbus  VIDEO SUMMARY: 00:00 Introduction 00:39 Skip Intro 01:49 Clothing  ABOUT DIGITAL TOUR BUS: Digital Tour Bus is your backstage pass to your favorite touring artists! With daily video releases, we cover all genres, and have had the pleasure of featuring the likes of Matchbox Twenty, Twenty One Pilots, Megadeth, MGK, Papa Roach, AJR, Pierce The Veil, Simple Plan, A Day to Remember, and thousands of others over the past 15 years. "Bus Invaders" takes you inside an artist's home on the road, "Cooking at 65mph" showcases the culinary skills of artists on tour, "Gear Masters" unveils the equipment musicians use on stage, and "Stage Threads" dives into the meaning and inspiration behind the clothing artists wear during their performances.

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00:00I also tend to wear shirts out until they're falling off my back.

00:03Philippe's the original French dip sandwich.

00:05This was a bracelet that was given to us this tour by some of our kind of super fans

00:10have started this crew called the Blue Crew.

00:30Hi, my name is Kenny.

00:41I am in That and the Heart.

00:43Yeah, we are right now in the middle of the Aperture tour promoting our new record Aperture,

00:49which came out in May a few months ago.

00:51It's been a blast.

00:53We've been playing shows all around the country in Canada and we're about a month into a five

00:58week run right now here in beautiful Chicago and couldn't be happier to be here tonight.

01:03Yeah, so fashion on tour.

01:06I've always been a very simple person.

01:11I'm very much a t-shirt and jeans kind of guy and have been since I was a kid.

01:16I also tend to wear shirts out until they're falling off my back.

01:20My dad was the same way.

01:21I got it from him.

01:23My mother and my sister make fun of both of us and have always done so.

01:27Yeah, so I don't think too much about it.

01:30I just bring on the road.

01:31I grab about seven of my favorite t-shirts and four or five pairs of pants, a pair of swimming

01:37trunks and a bunch of socks and underwear and I'm good to go.

01:40There's not much of a buying process.

01:41I, first of all, wear a lot of our merch because those shirts are free and they're comfortable

01:46and I like the design of them.

01:47And then I figure, free publicity, why not?

01:49You know, so I do wear a lot of our merch on tour and at home.

01:54This shirt I'm wearing here was the handout at a Laker game.

01:59I'm born and raised in Los Angeles and so this is also free, but I'm born and raised in

02:04L.A. and a lifelong Laker fan and went to a game five or six years ago and it was Red

02:08Hot Chili Peppers Night.

02:09And Flea played the National Anthem on bass.

02:11It was great.

02:13And like I said, I wear shirts until they're falling off me.

02:16So it's like slowly getting there.

02:17I love the feeling of a good warning shirt and so I'll wear it until it's literally falling

02:23off my back.

02:24I do have two of these because I went with my girlfriend and they gave us two and she doesn't

02:30like it.

02:31And so people think I wear this shirt all the time, but I'm really swapping between two

02:33different ones.

02:34But yeah, here's my Laker Chili Pepper shirt that I wear quite a bit.

02:39I'll pull out a couple others.

02:40Here, like I said, is one of our merch tees that I like and wear very often.

02:46This is from 2023, so not too old, but I do.

02:51I mean, I like collecting our merch anyways.

02:53I have boxes in my basement at home of one of every item we've ever produced, you know,

02:58give or take a couple that I missed along the way, but the handful that I really dig the

03:01designs of I proudly wear as often as I feel I need to.

03:07Here's another tea that reps my hometown of Los Angeles, Philippe's the Original French

03:14Dip Sandwich.

03:15This is a staple of L.A., been around since 1908.

03:19There are two places in L.A. that claim to have invented the French dip.

03:22Philippe's is one of them.

03:23The others is Kohl's.

03:24I've always preferred Philippe's and I believe their story.

03:27And growing up as a kid on the way to Laker games and Dodger games, my dad and I would

03:30always stop here and eat French dips and I still go every month or two at home.

03:34And so I like repping the local legendary Philippe's home of the original French Dip Sandwich.

03:41It depends on the shirt.

03:42I've had some that have lasted me years, but that's a lot of wears.

03:47I had for a while, I had this shirt by the band Warrant, which is like an 80s hair metal

03:52band.

03:53I think they did that song Sweet Cherry Pie, which I'm not like a diehard fan, but I do think

03:57the 80s hair metal bands are cool.

03:59And I found that at a thrift store on tour in Indianapolis back in like 2011.

04:03And I wore that thing until it was almost embarrassingly like shredded and falling off of me.

04:08But it's really just about the feel.

04:10Like I don't even care about the look too much as far as like the tattered look.

04:14I just love the feel of a really thin worn T-shirt.

04:17And so if I have the option before a tour, I'm obviously going to grab the five or six

04:22that are already kind of at that state.

04:24But yeah, I tend to wear like the same shirt for a few shows in a row.

04:28And then once it gets to the point where I need to throw it in the dirty clothes bag,

04:31it goes there.

04:32And I just try to do laundry on the road.

04:33So I don't pack for more than a week, even if we're on a two week or two month tour.

04:37Yeah.

04:38I mean, these are Levi's.

04:39I found these at a thrift shop in LA and I love green and it's hard to find green pants.

04:45And so anytime I do see a green pair of denim or slacks or whatever and they fit well,

04:50I tend to pick them up because I just like anything dark green.

04:54So these were just a random find.

04:56I guess other pants.

04:57I mean, I do like Levi's a lot, just like blue jeans.

05:00I found a handful of years ago, we did like a little partnership with Lululemon and met

05:06some of the folks that kind of are high up at the company.

05:08They're really sweet to us and they gifted us a ton of stuff.

05:12And I found that they're, I don't know the name of them, but they're like ABC stretchy

05:16just pants.

05:18They're like very breathable and stretchy.

05:20You can kind of wear them to like a nice dinner if you need to, you can wear them out like working

05:25out.

05:26You can, it's just day to day pants.

05:27I love those.

05:29They also have a policy where if you bring them in, you can get a new pair without having

05:32a receipt or needing one.

05:34So I've literally had the same like four pair and I've just recycled them for the last

05:37handful of years.

05:38I'm pretty like budget conscious, you know, I like saving my money and I don't really

05:43care to like spend a ton on clothes.

05:44So thrift stores, merch, free handouts, most of my closet, I'd say 90% of my closet is in

05:53those categories.

05:54Shoes.

05:55Yeah.

05:56Again, not very picky.

05:57These Reeboks, like kind of classic old style Reeboks, I have loved for years now and it's

06:04almost embarrassing if you saw my closet at home, I have like nine pairs of these.

06:09They always come out with like slightly different colorways, just the bottom, these are the brown.

06:13Anytime I see a new color, I pick them up.

06:15These ones have obviously been worn for a while or not super clean right now, but we're a month

06:20long into a tour and I wear them every day.

06:23But yeah, these Reeboks I've been wearing pretty nonstop.

06:26I wear a lot of like Birkenstocks when I'm just trying to be comfy on the bus or around the

06:30venues and whatnot, but yeah, and then running shoes I have on the road.

06:34So yeah, so these, my Birks, and my running shoes.

06:37I have a pair of Reebok pumps that were like a gifted thing years ago that actually have

06:41the little pump button on the side.

06:43I don't use that, but they're super comfy and right now, pretty gross.

06:48Yeah, yeah, I mean Apple Watch, I don't necessarily think it's the coolest thing ever, but I use

06:53it for runs and whatnot and I'm a numbers person, I like keeping track of my steps and like

06:58especially on the road, I just have kind of goals I try to hit and this makes that a lot

07:01easier, but I do take it off for the shows.

07:04It's also, I've found if you're playing the piano and wearing an Apple Watch, it counts

07:08a lot of the playing as steps and so I feel like I'm cheating.

07:11If I play a whole show, it'll count it as like 12,000 steps and that's just a lie.

07:16So I take it off for that.

07:18This was a bracelet that was given to us this tour by some of our kind of super fans have

07:24started this crew called the Blue Crew based off our last record.

07:28Every Shade of Blue and some of them have been to upwards of 50 shows in the last couple

07:33of years and they're always front and center.

07:35They always wear blue lights and give out these blue crew stickers and so they gave me one

07:39of these recently and I've just been wearing it.

07:42This was another, we get a lot of friendship bracelets given to us and this one, I'm not

07:46even sure who gave it to me.

07:49We just had a bunch of them waiting on the bus for us, but I thought it was just pretty

07:52wild, you saved my life and thought that was very sweet and a good reminder of the power

07:59of music and the power of what we do.

08:01It's more than just a job and a hobby and an art for us, it spreads and I try as often

08:09as I can to remind myself of that.

08:11So having it right on my wrist is a really nice mental check in every time I look at my

08:15hands, which is every night when I'm playing.

08:17So these are our wardrobe cases, we each have one, we've had these for years.

08:23Up until this tour, mine has remained empty.

08:26I've never used it once.

08:29I've actually kind of just over the years let Maddie or Charity or whoever needs it take

08:34up mine if they have extra things they'd like to bring out.

08:38But this tour, for the very first time, I decided to fly with a few essentials that I

08:42just figured I'd keep on the road that I might not, I haven't even used this tour but things

08:47like a rain jacket, an extra just kind of button up, like a fleece for if it's cold.

08:54It's obviously middle of summer right now so I'm not using any of this stuff but some

08:58people will do that.

08:59They'll just leave like an extra rain jacket on tour all the time so the next time I fly

09:04to a tour, that's one thing I don't need to bring out with me.

09:07And so this is the first time I brought a few kind of cold temp rainy essentials that I'm

09:12just going to leave with our gear so I'll never have to fly with a rain jacket ever again

09:15if we're doing a banter.

09:16Yeah, I love Patagonia, one of my best buds who lived at my house for a few years, has

09:22worked for them for ages so once again he got me a really good deal so I have a ton of

09:27Patagonia stuff.

09:28It's embarrassing.

09:29But I've done a lot of backpacking trips, I climbed Kilimanjaro a few years ago in Africa

09:35and needed, like this is a really nice Patagonia shell and just needed a ton of gear that I

09:40didn't already own and I just stocked up on Patagonia stuff.

09:42So they also make the best socks on earth.

09:47Their socks, which I'm not wearing right now, are the most comfy socks in the world so buy

09:50your wool Patagonia socks and you'll feel really happy.

09:53Yeah, so again, Kenny from the Head and the Heart, new album Aperture out now, available

09:59wherever you will prefer streaming music or purchasing music, hopefully at your local record

10:05stores.

10:07It's been a blast touring off these new songs and playing them, we're still on the road

10:10and have a lot of dates left this year and next year to be announced eventually.

10:16But yeah, please come out and see us.

10:18It's been a blast and I feel like we've kind of leveled up in a way and I really want our

10:23older fans and newer fans to experience it so come out and join us on the road.

10:27We're around.

10:28And yeah, the Head and the Heart, go to our website or Instagram or Twitter or whatever

10:34you feel like doing and we're everywhere.

10:36But we love you.

10:37Thanks again for watching and I'm Kenny.

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