The Sit-Down: Junior

One day in late September, the singer and multi-instrumentalist Caroline Keys sent a demo recording to her two bandmates in the folk-rock trio Junior. The song, a bittersweet and bluesy waltz, was called “My Band is Moving to Butte.” The song was not fictional — later that fall, multi-instrumentalists and singers Hermina Jean and Jenny Lynn Fawcett packed up their belongings in Missoula and headed east in search of more affordable living in Butte, complicating the band’s existence. That geographical splintering represents just one of several challenges Junior has faced over the past few ye