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Normally, the deluxe edition of an artist’s album tacks on inessential bonus tracks or throwaway covers.

Not Lady Antebellum. The re-release of the group’s 2013 record “Golden” spawned the single “Compass,” a top-10 hit on the Billboard country charts. The track reinvigorated the Nashville-based group after its seven-month break from the road, which accommodated singer Hillary Scott’s maternity leave. Scott and fellow band leaders Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood penned the song a few weeks after she gave birth – to daughter Eisele Kaye, with husband Chris Tyrrell - in July, delayed a round of tour dates to promote it, and watched it become one of the group’s most popular tracks.

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After an extended break, the members of Lady Antebellum experienced jitters leading up to their new Take Me Downtown Tour, which opened earlier this month in Peoria, Ill.

“We’d be lying if we said we didn’t have a lot of anxiety and butterflies,” singer Hillary Scott. But in every city so far, the 27-year-old singer said they’ve been blown away by the response. “We have this new sense of excitement to be on the stage, performing songs, having fun, and I think that would have never had happened if we hadn’t taken a little break.”

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“In the next couple of weeks, we’re going to start bringing songwriters out to start writing for the next project,” Scott said. “I can’t tell you 100-percent where we’re going, because we’re still figuring it out. It’s exploration-time. We’re going to take our time. We’re not going to rush. We’re just going to write and be very selective. We’re going to explore what we’re not afraid to talk about, we’re not afraid to do production-wise. We’re not going to go too far left of the core of who we are, but I definitely think that we’re going to see where it’s going to take us, and we can always reel ourselves back in.”

To prepare for a new album, Lady Antebellum receives submissions from various songwriters. They have virtually all the time they want to get to know a song, but Scott said if she’s not sold on one by the end of the first chorus, her impressions don’t usually change with repeated listenings. “That’s just the way I am,” she said. “The songs that stand out are the ones you go back to, over and over and over. That’s my personal litmus test: if I want to go back and listen to it, there’s a reason.”

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Lady Antebellum can sing, but how are their Christmas tree trimming skills? The band loves decorating for Christmas, with the tree being the centerpiece. Hillary Scott, who will be celebrating her first Christmas as a mother, goes to her own mother’s house in search of very specific ornaments.

“My mom, I gave her such a hard time when I was a little girl, because she went to some store and got these snowmen with an icicle hanging down from the bottom, so I thought they were so gawdy,” she said. “But you know what? Now that I’m older, I love ‘em. And if they’re not on the tree, I’m like, ‘Mama, where are they? Where are the snowmen icicle lights this year?’”

In Charles Kelley’s house, the tree was a bit of a battle of wills. His wife Cassie had one vision while Charles had a more vibrant one.

“My mom actually sent me some of our old ornaments that we had made and stuff,” he said. “We always had the cheesiest tree, but I miss it. It was always so very colorful. And with my wife, she’s very stylish and chic, and so she wanted this really chic tree, and I said, ‘Baby, I’m sorry. We’ve got to put a little color in this.’ So, I put some of my cheesy little stuff on there, and I think that’s part of Christmas. I think you have to have that, so she relented.”

Hillary Scott: Eisele Was Bitten By the Music Bug

There may be a future country star in Hillary Scott‘s house.

The Lady Antebellum singer says her 4-month-old daughter Eisele Kaye already recognizes the group’s songs.

“We played the Grand Ole Opry a few months ago,” Scott, 27, told reporters at the American Country Awards on Tuesday.

“She was in the backstage area and they have a live feed for what’s going on on stage. She was in a dead sleep and we started into ‘Compass.’ She woke up and looked straight at the TV,and was glued. She’s already been bit by the bug.”

Scott’s baby girl will be touring with Lady Antebellum in January and — for the first time — the group will be rolling down the road in separate buses.

“A girl’s bus and a guy’s bus,” bandmate Dave Haywood jokes to PEOPLE.

Aside from the sexes, the cuisine in the two buses will be dramatically different.

“Her fridge will be full of baby formula and baby food,” Charles Kelley says. “And ours will be full of Doritos, whiskey and bourbon.”

– Mark Gray