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A string of underperforming songs beginning in slowed their momentum. Baby Cooper was born in January and you won't find more doting parents.

True story: Shawna drives a Mini Cooper that was a push present from Keifer. The duo are married couple of 19 years, and they're committed to family first, then the hustle of the music business. For now. I dunno, there may be another home for us somewhere," Keifer admits. We've been pounding our heads for seven years straight.

We needed a reset. You guys are independent artists now. Is there a lot of freedom that comes with that? Shawna Thompson : Oh, absolutely. Keifer Thompson : It's everything.

It's being able to do anything you want or need, almost immediately. Making decisions on artwork — we created the artwork for the project — we co-produced the record, we picked the other producers that we wanted to do it and we knew we were paying for it, so we could use whoever we wanted.

To what extent did you have to re-learn the business? KT : I take a lot more phone calls now. A lot more emailing. We hired a great publicist, which we've never had the publicist that you put on salary and there's plans and all this kind of thing. We had a great publicist, but she had 80 artists and was just overwhelmed.

It's hard to be very focused on anybody when you're trying to take care of everybody. You're not on the radio single cycle any longer. Is digital media and streaming something you had to learn a lot more about? ST : We're still learning. It's amazing how much it's changed since our first radio tour, which was 10 years ago.

KT: And I kept hearing "Own your masters! It's like "Well, if you own the masters and you get this many streams, you get this much. If you just write the song, you get this much. KT: We're learning really quick. We've won awards and we've done all these great big things, and the most important thing now is just not screwing this kid up.

On Masterpiece , nothing sounds like it was written to be a single. There may be a good single on here, but nothing feels forced. KT: Yeah, we didn't write for anything aside from the song. And we didn't want anything light and fluffy. We wanted everything to have some meat on it — that was just really important to us. I think it's more importantly for us to be taken seriously musically than it is to just ding the bell hit No.

Did the title track come easily? ST: It's kind of a cool story. KT : I woke up at the house one morning with "masterpiece" repeating in my head and put it in my phone to write later. I just kept thinking about it and kept thinking about it, so I got up and grabbed my guitar. I went out on the back porch and was just trying to figure out what "masterpiece" was, and I started thinking about the definition of "masterpiece" being an artist's best work or something that you're never going to beat.

Now, we're getting to do what we both love to do together. It doesn't get any better than that. However, all of those achievements are dim in comparison to an event that occurred in January of the couple's son, Rigney Cooper, was born. Shawna and Keifer parted ways with their label in , independently releasing Masterpiece -- deeply inspired by their son -- in In March of , though, they announced a new recording and publishing deal with Reviver Entertainment , meaning that Thompson Square have much to look forward to in this new chapter.

If you need a reason to believe in love that holds tight through life's ups and downs, click through the photo gallery below to see the Thompsons doing both music and life together:. The Latest. Christina Vinson Updated: May 14,