It’s a Wednesday night. In a quaint-looking brick house on a normally quiet city street, a group of friends gather around a silver countertop in a kitchen with lime and olive-green walls. They drink Michelob and OctoberFest while discussing the events of their lives, which at the moment are getting interesting.

The friends make up the six-piece band known as The Hardin Draw, which has recently completed its first full album, produced by Old Crow Medicine Show veteran Morgan Jahnig.

David Talley is vocalist and guitarist. Nearby is bassist Jason Dietz and vocalist/mandolinist Aaron Swisher. Then there’s Vic Avellino, who offers vocals and plays banjo, lap steel and keyboards. The only woman in the group is vocalist and fiddle player Laura Beth Jewel. The sixth member is Patrick Johnson, who sings and plays electric guitar.

“It was a big accident,” says Talley, a short man wearing a gray flat cap and rocking a full-grown brown neck beard, taking the lead to tell of the band’s origin.

The band formed in 2011, he explained, but not as a serious venture, rather just for fun. There were parties at Dietz’s house where they would get together and play music. But members realized they wanted to write a song, and that’s when they got serious.

“It just started as a joke,” notes Talley.

“We forced [people] to sing,” adds Dietz, taller and lankier than Talley and with short, messy brown hair. Dietz is sitting stiffly on a bar stool, wearing a neck brace and a walking boot on his left foot due to a recent motorcycle accident.

They started out playing what band members termed “cheesy bluegrass.” However, now their musical style has moved more toward the Americana genre. They admit, though, that they’re still trying to figure out their sound.

“It’s evolving,” says Talley. “It’s raw. We’re still trying to figure out bluegrass progressions.”

“It’s straightforward and honest,” adds Swisher, whose clean-cut and shaven face is topped off with short black hair.

The original name of the band was Engine No. 7, but this changed, oddly enough, due to an episode of Pawn Stars. Dietz was watching the show when a patron brought in memorabilia from the 19th-century outlaw John Wesley Hardin.

“He invented the cross draw,” says Dietz, a move in which a gunslinger wearing a double-gun holster crosses his arms and pulls out both revolvers in one swift movement. “I thought it would make for a cool name, so I Googled it to see if it was taken, and it wasn’t.”

The Hardin Draw was born.

For the first couple of years the band toured, traveling as far north as New York City, as far south as New Orleans and everywhere in between.

“It’s been very difficult,” says Dietz. “A lot of hard work goes into booking your own tours. You have to email venues, and route the tours to have places to play every night.”

However, the band did get a nice break early on in its career. At The Hardin Draw’s second show, the band met Morgan Jahnig, vocalist and standup bass player for the award-winning Americana band Old Crow Medicine Show.

“He was there to see The Hackensaw Boys,” said Dietz. “I met him backstage, and we became friends.”

“He’s an awesome guy. . . . He heard something in us,” says Talley.

The friendship progressed to the point where Jahnig called the band on tour with ideas. After a couple of years getting to know its members, Jahnig decided to record and produce the band’s first album, Burn This Town. They started recording the album in January 2014, and they finished in May.

“It was super-easy,” said Dietz. “He has his vision. He’s very patient, but he wants it done right.”

“He killed me vocally,” interjects Talley. “He heard what it was supposed to sound like.”

Since finishing the album, the sextet made a video for their song “California.” This month, they will be making a video for the album’s opening track, “Southern Queen.”

Their album will be released for sale later this year.

“We will put it out or someone else will,” says Dietz.

The band is concentrating on writing new material while Dietz recovers from his motorcycle accident and Johnson recovers from a wood shop accident that caused damage to his finger. Members say they enjoy getting together every week. Making music is what they love to do.

“I just want to play,” says Talley.