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TRISHA YEARWOOD · Inside Country with Wayne D

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Speaker 1: First of all, let me tell you, I have a
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Speaker 1: career wise never been able to interview you. I met
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Speaker 1: you once at stage coach. I met you once at
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Speaker 1: Friends down the street, and that might have been in
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Speaker 1: really so it's it's an absolute pleasure. Oh no, I
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Speaker 1: talked to you at the Preds game because I host
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Speaker 1: I also host the Preads games.
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Speaker 2: Yes we did, that's right. I'm like, no, I know you.
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Speaker 3: I was like, maybe it's from America's Most Wanted, but
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Speaker 3: I feel like I know it is.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I have been arrested, but it's for being handsome.
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Speaker 1: What you said that before. That's why they were like,
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Speaker 1: never mind, we let you go right away.
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Speaker 2: It's been a great interview. Thanks so much.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, I'll see you next time. You have so much
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Speaker 1: going on, so congratulations. First of all for that, thank you,
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Speaker 1: But I have to I wanted to start with you
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Speaker 1: have done music at a high level for so long,
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Speaker 1: which isn't common for artists to achieve the success that
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Speaker 1: is maintained over the years. But you've always added extra
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Speaker 1: whether it's you know, at cooking show, cookbook, all this
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Speaker 1: other stuff. Why is it important for you to be
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Speaker 1: more than just Trisha the singer.
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Speaker 3: It's funny, you know, when I when I look back
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Speaker 3: and I talk about my history, especially I go to
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Speaker 3: talk about how I got how I got my record deal,
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Speaker 3: and how the cooking show happened. If I were to
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Speaker 3: look back and write a book about it all, I
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Speaker 3: would probably just say I have no idea, you know,
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Speaker 3: that would be it would be a short book, because
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Speaker 3: it's like, I never was a I'm not a person
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Speaker 3: still who's like, well, here's where I see myself in
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Speaker 3: five years or ten years. I've always just been open
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Speaker 3: to the opportunities as they've come. And I all I
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Speaker 3: ever wanted to be was a singer. I mean I
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Speaker 3: knew at five I was this is what I wanted
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Speaker 3: to do, and I was just had to figure out
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Speaker 3: a way to do it. And what happens, And you
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Speaker 3: know this, when you become successful and some in one area,
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Speaker 3: you get a lot of opportunities to do a lot
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Speaker 3: of other stuff, somethings you probably should.
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Speaker 2: Do and some things you probably shouldn't do, you know.
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Speaker 3: And so I had gone to New York to take
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Speaker 3: meetings about writing an autobiography, and I just I took
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Speaker 3: the meetings at a courtesy. I really didn't want to
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Speaker 3: do it because I'm like I was like, I was
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Speaker 3: probably almost forty, and I was like, I don't I'm
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Speaker 3: not ready to write the book and probably won't never anyway.
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Speaker 2: I just don't think that's what I want to do.
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Speaker 2: I won't tell the stories everybody wants to know anyway.
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Speaker 3: So so the one of the publishers says, well, what
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Speaker 3: would you like to write about, because we feel like
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Speaker 3: people would listen to you, And I said, well, I
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Speaker 3: like to cook. I mean, it wasn't premeditated in any way,
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Speaker 3: and when I left New York, I had volunteered my
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Speaker 3: mom and my sister to write a cookbook with me,
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Speaker 3: so that.
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Speaker 2: Opportunity just kind of came out of nowhere.
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Speaker 3: I thought it would be a one and done book
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Speaker 3: for my family to have all the recipes in one place,
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Speaker 3: and then we had a New York Times bestseller, so
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Speaker 3: then we had to write another book, and then we
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Speaker 3: did a show. So so all that to say that
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Speaker 3: I'm glad looking back, I'm glad because I think that
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Speaker 3: especially during the time that I was living in Oklahoma
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Speaker 3: raising three girls with Garth and not touring, not making records,
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Speaker 3: the cooking show and the books kept me engaged with people,
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Speaker 3: so it was wonderful thing, so that when I did
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Speaker 3: come back and make a record, I hadn't really gone away.
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Speaker 3: I'd gone away in one way, but not another. And
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Speaker 3: so I feel like it was it looks like it was.
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Speaker 3: It feels like it looks like it was smart, but
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Speaker 3: it wasn't really planned.
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Speaker 2: It was just like, this is kind of what happened.
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Speaker 3: And that's how the collaborations with williams Sonma the furniture line.
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Speaker 3: Everything has kind of come out of where you're successful
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Speaker 3: in one area and then I'm at a place in
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Speaker 3: my life where I choose the things that I think
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Speaker 3: I'll enjoy and the people I enjoy working with and
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Speaker 3: things I think i'd like to do.
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Speaker 1: And you don't have to answer this, but what is
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Speaker 1: something that you had to say no to that didn't
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Speaker 1: fit where you were, it didn't fit your personality. What's
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Speaker 1: an opportunity that came up that you're like, Eh, that's
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Speaker 1: not me.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's been a lot of things, and sometimes
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Speaker 3: it's not it's not a negative thing, it's just that's
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Speaker 3: not really my thing. The thing that popped into my
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Speaker 3: head back in the nineties, there were a lot of
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Speaker 3: those weight loss things, you know that they'd hire spokes
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Speaker 3: firston four and they offered you so much much money
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Speaker 3: to be a part of it.
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Speaker 2: And first of.
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Speaker 3: All, I always wanted to lose weight, you know, and
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Speaker 3: and it's like this would be great, and then but
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Speaker 3: then the other fear is I'll do the thing, I'll
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Speaker 3: be the spokesperson, I'll lose the weight, and then I'll
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Speaker 3: go out and eat a cheeseburger and I'll gain it
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Speaker 3: all back, and then I won't be the spokesperson anymore.
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Speaker 3: And I just didn't want anything. And I mean I
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Speaker 3: struggled already with my weight. I didn't want it to
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Speaker 3: be a public thing. And so even though it is
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Speaker 3: when you're you know, in the public eye, So that
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Speaker 3: was something that was like the money.
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Speaker 2: Was fantastic, but I just didn't feel like it was
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Speaker 2: the right thing for me.
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Speaker 1: I get that you are a phenomenal cook. I mean,
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Speaker 1: from what I see, I haven't tried it. You're a
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Speaker 1: phenomenal singer, and you obviously have success turning yourself into
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Speaker 1: a bibblehead because you became a bobblehead for the National
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Speaker 1: Credits this year as well. Is that weird to know
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Speaker 1: that ten thousand fans walked walked away and brought trisay
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Speaker 1: year with home with them.
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Speaker 3: It was it's a little bit weird, but you know
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Speaker 3: what It's like, there's things in my career like I
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Speaker 3: was a puzzle on Will of Fortune, I got to
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Speaker 3: be on Sesame Street. There's like these milestone things that like,
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Speaker 3: I'm a bobblehead like I was.
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Speaker 2: That was on the list right, and it's just it's
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Speaker 2: really cool. So when they.
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Speaker 3: Asked me about it, I had seen that Keith Urban
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Speaker 3: had been holding a catfish on his and so I said,
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Speaker 3: can I do mine with the rescue dog because I
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Speaker 3: do rescue and uh so they let me do it
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Speaker 3: with Smash. So I'm really pumped that I not only
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Speaker 3: have my own bobblehead, but I have the dog and
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Speaker 3: his head also bobbles, So I mean, it's it's it's
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Speaker 3: kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Listen two for one, you are about to put out
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Speaker 1: a new Elements a Lot. You put out a new
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Speaker 1: song called Mirror today off of that, I also saw
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Speaker 1: this is the first time you co wrote and co
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Speaker 1: produced your entire every song on there. Yeah, why why
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Speaker 1: now is that? Why did this feel like the right
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Speaker 1: time for you to do that.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting.
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Speaker 3: I never really called myself a writer, And in fact,
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Speaker 3: if you go back and look at every interview if
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Speaker 3: that I've ever done until now, I always I was
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Speaker 3: just not a confident writer. I had written some early on,
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Speaker 3: and I had come to Nashville, you know, with all
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Speaker 3: of my bad poetry from high school, and I was
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Speaker 3: in college and I had a buddy of mine who
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Speaker 3: looked at all my stuff and said, yeah, you're a
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Speaker 3: good singer, but you're not really a songwriter. And he
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Speaker 3: wouldn't never remember saying this, and I don't even know
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Speaker 3: where he is today. But I no offense to him.
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Speaker 3: I don't hold a grudge, but obviously I'm talking about him.
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Speaker 3: But I let it be the truth about me for
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Speaker 3: a long time, and it took me a really long
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Speaker 3: time to kind of stop saying that, to kind of go, hey,
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Speaker 3: just because somebody said that about you, you get to
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Speaker 3: decide what the truth is about you.
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Speaker 2: Not somebody else.
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Speaker 3: And something just kind of clicked about three years ago
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Speaker 3: and I started writing, and in a different way I
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Speaker 3: had written before. But I even told my husband, who's
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Speaker 3: in all the Songwriters Hall of fams. I'm like, you
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Speaker 3: should write with me now because I'm a lot more
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Speaker 3: fun to write with because I'm not. I was my
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Speaker 3: own worst send to me, and I just made it
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Speaker 3: really hard. I was afraid to say, Hey, what about
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Speaker 3: this idea? And what I've learned is that every writer
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Speaker 3: goes into the room with a blank piece of paper
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Speaker 3: and they all I sit with writers who have so
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Speaker 3: much success, and the first thing they'll say is like,
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Speaker 3: this might be a dumb idea, but what about I'm
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Speaker 3: like you, you're saying that that's what I say.
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Speaker 2: Not what you say.
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Speaker 3: So it's been such an eye opening, incredible experience, and
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Speaker 3: I really just started doing it for me. And then
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Speaker 3: over the course of time, everybody in my life, including
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Speaker 3: my husband, said you need to make a record these songs,
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Speaker 3: and so I was really I was really nervous about
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Speaker 3: it at first because I've had my career has been
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Speaker 3: about choosing really good songs so the song members win
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Speaker 3: and she's in love with the boy. And I made
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Speaker 3: all those records with another Garth, Garth Fundus, who is
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Speaker 3: one of my dear friends and a great producer and
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Speaker 3: a great song man. So I didn't want anybody to
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Speaker 3: think that I thought I had written something better than
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Speaker 3: Walkaway Joe, and that's.
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Speaker 2: Not what this is.
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Speaker 3: But but I've got to goten to a place where
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Speaker 3: I'm not even worried about that anymore. It's like this
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Speaker 3: is just what I've been doing. It's like I'm a
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Speaker 3: painter and I made it. I painted a painting. I
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Speaker 3: hope you love it, and if you don't, that's cool,
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Speaker 3: But I'm just not. I'm just I just feel it
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Speaker 3: was like it's like a freedom. It's like, now that
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Speaker 3: this has happened, I'm not sure. I mean, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I already have enough songs for a couple more albums,
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Speaker 3: you know, So I'm not I'm sure what's coming next.
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Speaker 3: But I'm I'm just really enjoying it. It's like I've
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Speaker 3: discovered something new. And I just turned sixty last year,
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Speaker 3: so I'm shocked that I'm sitting here going, man, I
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Speaker 3: just found something new that is just making me so happy.
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Speaker 2: It's so different, you know, but it's been really cool.
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Speaker 1: You must look good for sixty, because when you said
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Speaker 1: I just turned sixty, tay, when.
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Speaker 2: Well, I have a filter on tey.
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Speaker 3: And also I'm definitely considering what's coming next. I mean
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Speaker 3: I always said, I always said I would never do
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Speaker 3: anything to my face, But I was also thirty when.
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Speaker 2: I said that, So you know, we'll see what I
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Speaker 2: look like next time you to see me.
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Speaker 1: You talked about the confidence to be a writer, now
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Speaker 1: that you're in that space where maybe you didn't even
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Speaker 1: need the confidence, You just had to get out of
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Speaker 1: your own way mentally. We don't know a lot about
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Speaker 1: the album other than we know Mirror is out. We
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Speaker 1: know it's coming out July eighteenth. Is there a song
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Speaker 1: on there? Knowing that you've put yourself out there as
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Speaker 1: a creative more than you ever have musically with this project?
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Speaker 1: Is there a song on there that was a harder? Right?
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Speaker 1: Are maybe means a little more than the rest of
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Speaker 1: them that you can tell us about? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I mean I think you know, as a as an artist,
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Speaker 3: I've always, like I said, chosen songs that really feel
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Speaker 3: like their mind when I'm done with them. But I
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Speaker 3: could always if somebody said, oh, is that is that personal?
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Speaker 2: Is that about you?
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Speaker 3: I could always say no, I didn't write that, so
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Speaker 3: you know, But now I can't say that about any
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Speaker 3: song on this record, and every song is not one
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Speaker 3: hundred percent autobiographical, but I will say that a lot
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Speaker 3: of these songs feel like songs to my younger self.
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Speaker 3: The Mirror is a song about, you know, giving ourselves
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Speaker 3: grace when you're younger, and if you could, just if
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Speaker 3: you could, if if that young Tricia at twenty two
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Speaker 3: could see this Tricia, she'd go, Oh, everything's gonna be okay,
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Speaker 3: and you're gonna get to a place that you're going
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Speaker 3: to feel so comfortable in your own skin. If you could,
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Speaker 3: just if we could just do that for ourselves, which
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Speaker 3: of course we can't. The most I think raw honest
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Speaker 3: song on this record is a song called Fearless these Days,
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Speaker 3: and it's not a song about.
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Speaker 2: Like I'm fearless, bring it on.
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Speaker 3: It's more of IM good, and it's like it when
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Speaker 3: I was younger and I made a mistake or like
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Speaker 3: a relation, a failed relationship, a divorce, I was embarrassed,
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Speaker 3: you know, and I was I didn't want to I
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Speaker 3: didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to
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Speaker 3: admit I'd failed, and so I would almost just pretend
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Speaker 3: it never happened.
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Speaker 2: You know. There were I had friends who didn't even
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Speaker 2: know I've been married before, because I was just like
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Speaker 2: I just it just didn't exist. You know, I made
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Speaker 2: that mistake.
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Speaker 3: It's over and I've gotten to a place where it's
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Speaker 3: like all the things that happened to you in your
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Speaker 3: life make you who you are. And we we we
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Speaker 3: don't we don't really learn that much from success, but
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Speaker 3: we learn a lot from failure, and so so fearless
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Speaker 3: these days is really about, hey, I did these things.
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Speaker 2: Here's who I was when I was.
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Speaker 3: Young, and you don't know until you know. And you
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Speaker 3: got to give yourself some grace for that and give
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Speaker 3: yourself a break.
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Speaker 1: You are somebody who has always been so good to
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Speaker 1: your fans. Uh. And I'm sure you attribute that to like, hey,
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Speaker 1: if if people weren't buying records, I wouldn't get to
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Speaker 1: do what I love. Right. You are about to make
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Speaker 1: an appearance at the Opry and you're also doing a
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Speaker 1: signing of the new album that day. Yeah, uh, and
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Speaker 1: you're literally signing for everybody that has the album or
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Speaker 1: whether it's vinyl or CD. You might be there a minute.
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Speaker 1: Why is it important for you to be able to
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Speaker 1: give back in that way?
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's it's also something that's unique to
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Speaker 3: country music. You know, we're a genre that has always
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Speaker 3: been accessible. So if you are a fan of somebody
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Speaker 3: in country music, you've got a good chance over your
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Speaker 3: lifetime to meet them. I mean, that's that's unique to us.
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Speaker 3: Country music has always been very accessible. And I'm also
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Speaker 3: an artist who is my persona like, who I am
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Speaker 3: on stage is really not wildly different at all from
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Speaker 3: the person I am off stage. So I except for
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Speaker 3: maybe you know, a little more makeup and a little
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Speaker 3: more confident on stage than I am off stage, although
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Speaker 3: I'm getting a lot more. Those two women are getting
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Speaker 3: to be a lot closer in confidence. So I've always
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Speaker 3: wanted to be able to chant, to say hello, this
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Speaker 3: is what we do every time, and you know more
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Speaker 3: now more than ever. When you say album sales, record sales,
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Speaker 3: I mean that's just as that's a word. Some people
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Speaker 3: are like, I don't even know what that means anymore,
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Speaker 3: you know, because people physical product is not something that
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Speaker 3: you know. It's what drove us in the nineties, and
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Speaker 3: it's not that way anymore. So when I get a
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Speaker 3: chance to go out and actually for people to have
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Speaker 3: the physical thing in their hands, I want to say
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Speaker 3: thank you so much, and can I sign all of
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Speaker 3: them for you please, so I'm looking forward to it.
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Speaker 1: You brought up Garth a little while ago. Obviously, you
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Speaker 1: guys have successfully opened the friends and little places down here.
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Speaker 1: You're a big part of that as well. Tay and
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Speaker 1: I got to be at like the like little grand
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Speaker 1: opening sneak peak thing that was awesome. But with that,
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Speaker 1: we talked to Garth when he put out the single
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Speaker 1: with Ronnie Dunn its over almost probably close to two
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Speaker 1: years ago, and he said he doesn't have an answer.
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Speaker 1: I asked him, what is his least favorite song of yours?
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Speaker 1: He goes, oh, gosh, I don't have an answer, because
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Speaker 1: it's easy to be like, oh, I love this song,
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Speaker 1: it's my favorite. If the roles were reversed, what's the
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Speaker 1: song of his? You'd be like, I like all your music,
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Speaker 1: but if this one did never came out, it would
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Speaker 1: be Okay.
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Speaker 2: That's a good that's a good question.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I sang on most of the ones that
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Speaker 3: were really big hits, so you know, you're welcome.
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Speaker 1: We'll take that. We'll take that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, that is a it's like, I don't
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 3: Actually, most of my my favorite art songs are mostly
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Speaker 3: songs that weren't singles, you know, Like I'm more of
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Speaker 3: the deep cuts girl anyway, even on my own records,
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Speaker 3: so you know, some of my favorite songs are and
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Speaker 3: I'm also the biggest fan of the Chris Gaynes record.
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Speaker 2: I think it's one of the best records ever. So
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he probably could tell you what he thinks
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Speaker 3: I don't like, but I don't. I don't, I can't,
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Speaker 3: I can't. I can't talk about it.
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Speaker 1: We'll leave it at that in case he's in the
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Speaker 1: next room. I don't need We don't need.
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Speaker 3: That right now.
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Speaker 2: We do not.
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Speaker 1: As you look at your career and the things. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: the accolades are fantastic. My minimal interactions with you, I
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Speaker 1: can tell the accolades have not been the motivation on
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Speaker 1: why you stand where you stand today. So what are
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Speaker 1: some of the special moments that if you put this
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Speaker 1: album out and decided never to put another album out again,
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Speaker 1: So from now to the first single you ever put out,
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Speaker 1: what are moments that you're like, Wow, that was really
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Speaker 1: special to me.
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Speaker 3: I think it's been one being a part of a
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Speaker 3: community that I admire and respect so much, and that
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Speaker 3: goes to some of the friendships I've made in this industry.
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Speaker 3: That are people that I grew up listening to the
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Speaker 3: fact that I'm friends with Emilu Harris, you know who.
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Speaker 3: Emulu is that north star for me as far as
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Speaker 3: like a person who I feel like her career has
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Speaker 3: always been about what is right for her, and she's
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Speaker 3: been really successful, and she's stayed true to herself and
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Speaker 3: she's still she's revered, you know, in our industry, and
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Speaker 3: so I she's kind of the benchmark to me. So
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Speaker 3: to those people getting a chance to work with Don
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Speaker 3: Henley and become friends with him, somebody that I, you know,
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Speaker 3: grew up listening to the Eagles, I mean, who didn't,
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Speaker 3: And to be able to call these folks my friends.
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Speaker 3: I got to play a song or two for Emmy
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Speaker 3: Lou and for her to respond and say that's so beautiful,
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Speaker 3: you know or whatever, you know, some a compliment from
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Speaker 3: someone who's a hero of mine. Those are the moments,
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Speaker 3: you know, when I when all is said and done,
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm not going to be clutching the Grammy.
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Speaker 3: I Well, maybe I will, we don't know, but I'll
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Speaker 3: be thinking.
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Speaker 2: I think about the experiences, you know.
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Speaker 3: I got to sing with Pavarotti in Italy, you know
15:38
Speaker 3: in the nineties, like that wasn't on the list, you know.
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Speaker 3: So I think it's those experiences of being on you know,
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Speaker 3: being in Ireland two three years ago with Garth, watching
15:48
Speaker 3: ninety thousand people all night lose their minds, getting to
15:50
Speaker 3: be on that stage and feel that energy those moments,
15:55
Speaker 3: and getting to sing and know my heroes. Those are
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Speaker 3: the things that I'm like, Wow, this is this has
15:59
Speaker 3: been such a ride and such an experience.
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Speaker 2: And to continue to be having, you know, getting.
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Speaker 3: To do this since ninety one in this way, on
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Speaker 3: this level, I feel so grateful.
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Speaker 2: And those are the things that those are the things that.
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Speaker 1: I'll remember knowing that this is the first album that
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Speaker 1: you and the first package of songs that you have
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Speaker 1: co written and co produced. I'd imagine there's some big
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Speaker 1: songs that have come up that you passed on which
16:26
Speaker 1: aren't necessarily like negative things to those songs. I love
16:29
Speaker 1: asking this question because we've gotten answers like from Kenny
16:31
Speaker 1: Chesney passed on check yes or No and it ended
16:35
Speaker 1: up massive for the King, right, what was Jacob and
16:39
Speaker 1: passed on Big Green Tractor ended up huge for l Dean,
16:42
Speaker 1: Is there a song like that for you? And again,
16:44
Speaker 1: it just has to feel right, It just has to
16:46
Speaker 1: feel authentic. Are there songs like that for you that
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Speaker 1: we not now know belonging to somebody else? Oh?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a really big one I passed on Strawberry Wine.
16:59
Speaker 3: Yeah it's fine. So I mean, Dina Carter sold like
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Speaker 3: four million records on that one song, So it's fine.
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Speaker 2: I've let it go. But here's what's funny about it.
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Speaker 3: Garth bund Is, my producer, brought it to me and
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Speaker 3: Materesa Berg co write and I've recorded a bunch of
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Speaker 3: Montraca songs. I love her, And there was something about, like,
17:20
Speaker 3: you know, I guess this was like ninety I don't know,
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Speaker 3: mid nineties, and I was like, I don't know. I
17:25
Speaker 3: just I feel like it's a song about her losing
17:27
Speaker 3: her virginity, and I just feel like, maybe, you know,
17:29
Speaker 3: my little eight year old she's a love of the
17:31
Speaker 3: boy fans. But then a few years later I recorded
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Speaker 3: a song called Georgia Rain, which is basically about that
17:36
Speaker 3: happening in a truck. So I guess I just evolved
17:40
Speaker 3: from and I do believe one hundred percent the serious
17:44
Speaker 3: truth is songs.
17:45
Speaker 2: End uphere they're supposed to.
17:46
Speaker 3: If I would have recorded Strawberry Wine, it's not like
17:49
Speaker 3: it would have sold four million copies for me. You
17:51
Speaker 3: never know how it's gonna go. The songs get to
17:55
Speaker 3: the place they're supposed to be. That song was so
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Speaker 3: Dina Carter. But I do every you know, when I
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Speaker 3: asked that question, I'm like, yep, it was Strawberry Wine.
18:02
Speaker 2: That was a that was kind of a big song,
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Speaker 2: no big deal.
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Speaker 1: Last thing I want to ask is we're wrapping things up,
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Speaker 1: the songs that you have held onto and you have
18:10
Speaker 1: put out, what are ones that this point to this
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Speaker 1: day that you're surprised that, Like maybe you didn't think
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Speaker 1: we're going to work, or you put out you didn't
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Speaker 1: think it was gonna you know what I mean, Like
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Speaker 1: they ended up way bigger than you could have imagined.
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Speaker 2: Well, the first one was She's Loved the Boy.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I'm a new artist and I
18:27
Speaker 3: recorded the song because I liked it. It was a
18:29
Speaker 3: good story. I mean, I had no idea what was
18:30
Speaker 3: going to happen. I didn't, you know, no expectation. Most
18:33
Speaker 3: of at that time, artists, like the biggest stars like
18:36
Speaker 3: Raebon McIntyre had made several albums before she hit it
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Speaker 3: really big, you know, so I wasn't. My expectation was
18:42
Speaker 3: just like, I want to make Top forty. You know,
18:44
Speaker 3: it'd be so cool if I had a song on
18:45
Speaker 3: the top forty. And I remember as it was rising,
18:48
Speaker 3: you know, just watching it go and thinking what is happening?
18:52
Speaker 3: And that song, you know, obviously, will always be the
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Speaker 3: biggest song in my career. And I don't think anybody
18:59
Speaker 3: saw it coming. Anybody today who says they did, they
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Speaker 3: they're lying they didn't know.
19:02
Speaker 2: And then the other one is how do I live?
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Speaker 3: You know, I I was, I was nine years into
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Speaker 3: a career and we were doing okay, but we we
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Speaker 3: didn't we had not had like I think, I don't know,
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Speaker 3: the latest big hit been maybe Walkaway Joe, and and
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Speaker 3: that song came along as an opportunity that I never
19:20
Speaker 3: would have asked for. You know, I didn't know that
19:23
Speaker 3: LeAnn Rimes was gonna release a version of it. I mean,
19:26
Speaker 3: it was all so crazy, and she was selling a
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Speaker 3: gazillion records a minute at that moment, and that song resonated,
19:32
Speaker 3: and I think, honestly, the fact that we both released it.
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Speaker 3: She had a number one at pop and we had
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Speaker 3: a number one at country. Probably made a big, a
19:38
Speaker 3: bigger record for both of us. Yeah, So that was
19:41
Speaker 3: a that was a thing that I did not expect
19:43
Speaker 3: that came along and just blew up.
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Speaker 1: The new album is out July eighteenth. Song Mirror is
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Speaker 1: out now operate the nineteenth and then hand cramps for
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Speaker 1: days for all the autographs that are coming