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Amber Nadine: Building Community and Originality in the Music Scene · The Scene Projects

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  Well, welcome in to a very exciting episode of The Scene.
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  I'm your host, Bubba Starts, and with me today is my good friend, Amber Nadine.
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  Amber, welcome to the show.
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  This is so exciting.
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  Well, you are a singer songwriter among other things, and we got to know each other, through
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  Rick Barker, who obviously, big in the independent music world these days.
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  But, before we talk about all of that, I want you to go ahead and and just introduce yourself
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  and tell us a little bit about, who you are.
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  Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  So, I'm a singer songwriter.
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  I've been doing, I've been performing for about nine years now, and I like to write a lot of
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  original music along the lines of, like, Taylor Swift's early years.
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  But I don't know.
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  I'm just I'm having fun.
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  I'm living my life, and I'm I'm very blessed to be where I'm at right now, so I'm excited.
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  And I I love it because I have watched your journey, albeit from, you know, South Dakota
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  where I live, and you're in, Pennsylvania.
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  Correct?
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  That is correct.
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  Yes.
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  I'm from Hummelstown, Pennsylvania.
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  Fantastic.
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  Well and I've watched you go from kind of a, you know, shy just recording in her bedroom
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  kinda young girl to now, you know, going and accepting awards at these, you know, these
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  events and and being nominated for all kinds of amazing things.
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  So to watch your progression, kinda through the whole thing, it's just been incredible from
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  afar.
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  I'm sure it feels like a dream for you at some points.
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  Thank you.
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  Yes.
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  It does.
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  I'm constantly shocked.
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  I've been nominated for several awards in Nashville and Atlanta, and here in
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  Pennsylvania, I'm currently nominated for the third time, best female solo artist.
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  We find out on March 5 whether or not I win, so I'm excited to see what happens there.
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  But yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Just well, and, like, we don't do it for the awards, but it's nice to have that recognition.
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  It's nice to feel like your art has value, to other people as well.
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  And beyond just your listeners, and I know a lot for you, probably the same as me, most of
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  your listeners and your fan base are people that you would consider family.
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  Right?
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  Like, these people and and as they come in, right, they're always considered family.
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  I know your views are much the same as mine, but, you know, when you start out as a singer
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  songwriter, especially at a young age, your biggest fans are your, you know, your mom and
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  dad and grandma, and and and it grows from there.
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  And I'm sure just everyone has to be so proud of where these last few years have gone and
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  especially throwing COVID right into the middle of all of that where, you know, no gigs and no,
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  you know, anything to go out and do.
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  I know you play quite a bit.
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  You know, you do the wineries and things like that during the summer.
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  Do winter slow down a little bit for you as well just as just not many places to play?
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  Well, it's not so much that.
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  It's more of the fact of, like, the snow can cancel shows pretty quickly.
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  It's flu season.
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  It's cold season.
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  It's in Amber's world, it's sinus infection season, which if you can't tell, I'm getting
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  over one right now.
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  So, like, it's very hard to keep gigs when you're constantly getting sick or there's
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  constantly snow that is keeping people from wanting to go outside because most of the time,
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  you kinda just wanna, like, sit inside and be cozy and cuddle up with your cats.
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  At least I know I do some nights.
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  But yeah, no.
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  Going back to something really quick that you said about growing over the years and getting
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  to know more people, that's one thing that I think a lot of people who aren't artists don't
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  fully understand is how almost lonely it can be sometimes.
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  I know for me, there wasn't really a community that I knew of here in Pennsylvania when I
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  first started out, and I felt like I was kind of like the black sheep in a sea of, like,
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  white sheep, and I was, like, having a hard time sticking to what I wanted to do.
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  And recently, my boyfriend and I, we created a songwriters round where we bring local artists
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  in to showcase their original music, kinda like what they do down in Nashville.
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  And since we have done that, my friend list has just grown so much of people that actually
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  understand what it's like to be in the music community, and it's really helped me open up
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  and come out of my shell and become more of who I am.
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  And it's really nice to be able to know that I have that sense of security and friendship with
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  people that completely understand what I'm going through, and, I understand what they're
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  going through as well.
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  So that's really a cool thing that I've loved to experience.
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  Well and you're kind of a beacon for other, you know, people and young people, I'm sure, that
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  that have felt like you.
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  Right?
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  I I I love you so much for that.
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  That is so incredible that, you know and that's something that we do hear a lot.
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  I'm a member of the Midwest Country Music Organization.
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  I'm sure you see me post plenty about that.
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  You should join too.
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  I know you're not in the Midwest, but we'd love to have you and then give you an excuse to come
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  out this way.
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  But supporting original music is something that has always been important to me.
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  I always ran open mics even when, you know, I was 23.
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  You know, I I was running open mics for people that were much older than me, so they could
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  come and play and to do that, but it was something that I've always been passionate
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  about and building communities.
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  And that's what you're doing, is you're building a community where there was none
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  because you experienced that.
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  You experienced having to walk it alone and not having a writer's round or even just someone to
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  talk to about it.
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  Right?
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  Which is probably how we ended up meeting because, you know, you fall into a world like
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  Rick Barker's, and you're like, oh, there's actually, like, hundreds of thousands of us,
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  right, that are out here struggling with the same thing.
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  And, it's a beautiful community that that obviously he has built.
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  But to branch out on your own takes a lot of courage to say, hey.
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  I'm gonna do this, and I don't know if anybody else is really out there.
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  And then as soon as you do, you're like, oh, there's a lot of I'm not the only black sheep.
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  Right?
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  There's plenty of us out here.
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  Yeah.
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  And it was actually really cool because the first time that we recognized that there was
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  more people like me was, at the Central Pennsylvania Music Awards that they hold
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  annually that I'm currently nominated for best female solo artist at.
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  So when we went there, and we saw all of these people, we were like, well, why don't we know
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  all of these people?
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  And it was because all of these artists are constantly performing their own gigs Fridays,
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  Saturdays, and Sundays, and, we don't get a chance to go and see each other's shows.
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  So that's why we wanted to create an opportunity for everybody to be able to hear
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  each other and see each other on a weeknight when we know we we're not working.
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  So
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  Yeah.
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  And it's a it's a common problem.
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  Right?
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  Everywhere around.
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  And I think a lot of us and a lot of people that I talk to I'm from a little bit older
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  generation.
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  I'll be I'll be 39 this year.
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  Forty's coming quick.
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  But we I had a lot of people that were in my generation that thought they had to go to Los
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  Angeles still.
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  They thought they had to go to Nashville and to do those.
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  And now that we've all kind of lived that life, saw it wasn't all that it was cut up to be.
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  Yes.
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  That experience can be valuable, but there's no reason that you can't go to your hometowns and
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  your small towns and to do the same things that they're doing at the Bluebird.
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  Right?
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  There's no reason that we shouldn't be showcasing our local talent in that same way.
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  And I'm sure that in Pennsylvania as, you know, with with South Dakota, most of the gigs that
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  you play are are more of the, you know, three, four hour bar gigs, you know, we call them,
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  where you're playing a lot of cover songs.
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  But what we have built because of our, commitment, that's really what it comes down
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  to.
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  We were committed to just playing our original music, especially with my band starts and ends
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  where I've always, like, you're always gonna get my nine originals that are in the set list
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  regardless.
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  I'll be cutting covers out before I'm cutting my music out of the show.
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  That's why I'm here.
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  Like, I'm not here to play other people's music.
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  I'm playing that for you.
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  You know?
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  I'm bringing that to kind of bring you into my world a little bit and to show you, hey, I come
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  from the same place that you do.
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  This is what vibe with me growing up, but now I'm able to share that and to share my music,
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  which is influenced by all of those songs.
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  Right?
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  So how great to be able to to do both.
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  Right?
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  To have the weekend gigs where you can make a little bit of money, but to be able to go out
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  and showcase original music is just that's what it's all about.
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  Yeah.
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  That's and that's so important too, like, what you were saying about not cutting out your
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  originals.
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  Like, you need to introduce that to the people that are hearing your cover stuff too.
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  And what is one of the things that Rick always taught us was become big in your hometown
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  first, and then you can start branching out.
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  So that's exactly what I've been working on lately.
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  And it's Yeah.
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  Well, and your branching
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  branches your branches stretch quite far.
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  Right?
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  You're you're being nominated for awards in Atlanta, and you've used I mean, just from
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  following you, I know that you're kind of in small town Pennsylvania.
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  You're not around a major metro area.
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  Right?
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  You're not in Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.
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  So Yeah.
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  Your situation is much more common to what I'm used to.
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  I mean, I'm I'm ninety minutes away from, town with more than 15,000 people.
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  Right?
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  Like, to get to any kind of metro area at all is a huge expenditure of time and money to go
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  play those gigs.
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  So I've had to cultivate a fan base from these small towns and from these small, you know,
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  bars, and I'm so, so appreciative of all of them that are willing to pay someone, you know,
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  a few hundred dollars, which is not a small price for a little bar to host live music and
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  to give us a place to perform.
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  I I'm always so grateful.
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  Yeah.
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  No.
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  Me too.
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  And it's it's wonderful.
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  Small town people are always the best too because they're the ones who are, like, the
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  most supportive.
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  Because, there's this one bar that I play at.
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  It's the tourist inn.
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  I absolutely love everybody there.
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  I go there.
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  It's a little biker bar, and you wouldn't think that someone like me would belong there, but I
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  go
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  in thing I just thought of.
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  I know.
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  I go in there, and I start playing, like, the Taylor Swift and the Carrie Underwood, and shut
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  up and dance.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  They're in there screaming it back at me, and they're always just so kind and appreciative
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  and welcoming.
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  So
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  Well, and for the same reason.
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  Right?
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  It's a haul for them to get in to see a big show.
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  And with ticket prices these days, who can even afford to go to a show?
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  You know?
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  For a couple to go, and and I had bought jelly roll tickets at one time, ended up having to
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  sell them, but it was over $500 just for the tickets.
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  The show was in Saint Louis.
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  Like, it was an eighteen hour trip for us to get there.
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  Right?
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  Like, there was this well, I was gonna spend, you know, $2,000 or more to go see a show just
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  because they don't get much closer.
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  Right?
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  He comes for rally, but, you know, seeing, you know, someone play and especially at the
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  Buffalo Chip where it's 60,000 people, we know, all kind of packed into an amphitheater
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  outdoor.
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  It's not the same as seeing someone in a venue or or and I was really I was going to see
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  Alexandra Kay.
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  I don't know if you're a big AK fan, but,
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  I don't I I don't even know who that is.
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  I've really fallen behind on, like, today's artist.
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  That happens when you have a have a, career in music.
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  Right?
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  Exactly why you have to do writers rounds.
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  So Alexandra Kay, she kinda became big.
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  She did coffee and country.
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  During COVID, they she was living in Nashville.
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  I don't know if you're familiar.
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  Cooper Allen, another couple of people that have kind of popped out of that group, but they
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  were all playing on Broadway when COVID hit.
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  So they get shut down.
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  They're not working, and they all kind of went in and were in a house together.
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  Tiger, Lily, Gold, same girls.
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  They're all part of the same crew.
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  And they all kind of got big around the same time by doing a lot of TikTok.
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  Right?
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  They just committed to, hey.
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  That that gig is gone.
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  Right?
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  And and we don't know when it's coming back.
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  So she started just committing to that.
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  We saw her in Sioux Falls play for 300 people.
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  My wife walked down the aisle to her song, and that's how we kind of became fans.
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  And then, the following year, we went and saw her play in Sioux Falls, you know, 300 people.
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  I think the next weekend or the, like, later on, two days later, she was opening for jelly
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  roll at the North Dakota State Fair.
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  And then a year later, she's on tour doing arenas with him.
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  Right?
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  So, I mean, we hugged her.
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  My my my my background is our meet and greet with her, and that really changed that changed
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  my mentality towards it, where it's like, oh, that human connection, that's what people want.
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  They wanna be able to to to feel like they know you, and we do in some ways.
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  Right?
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  We got to spend five minutes with her and tell her a little bit of our story.
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  And, you know, I'm sure it's filed away in her memory bank somewhere along with the hundreds
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  of thousands of other people now.
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  But for us, that was the highlight of our summer.
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  Right?
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  And then we get to carry that pride when we see her up on the arena stages and be like, we're
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  that's our girl.
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  You know?
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  And to remember then that, like, we're living that same experience.
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  Right?
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  You know?
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  People are gonna look at Amber Nadine on stage at these award shows and at the Grammys one day
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  and go, that's our girl.
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  You know?
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  And it's well, you just gotta keep working, sweetheart.
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  You're you're still very young, and you have, you've built up what you needed to.
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  For us small town kids, to get big in your hometown, sometimes you have to build the
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  scene.
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  Right?
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  It's how the the scene projects came about because that's all we were talking about.
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  Even in a city like Sioux Falls is a couple hundred thousand people, a bunch of great
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  players, but no scene.
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  Then I heard the same thing from everyone.
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  I was like, yeah.
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  Sioux Falls is great, but there's no scene.
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  There's no scene.
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  There's no scene.
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  I was like, I think that's the name of our show.
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  Right?
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  I think that's the name of the show.
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  And and if there isn't one, then build it, and don't be shy about it.
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  You're you were born to be a star, and sometimes that's on stage, and sometimes that's
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  behind the scenes doing the work to build a place to even have a stage.
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  And that's why it takes some of us a little bit longer to get to that point.
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  Right?
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  Yep.
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  That's awesome.
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  I love that.
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  Mhmm.
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  Well and it's the same thing that you're doing.
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  Right?
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  There's no reason that you shouldn't have a podcast.
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  Right?
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  And connecting all of these people that are in the songwriters round with you, and this is how
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  we build it up.
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  And this is really what's gonna change music over the course of the next ten years is this
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  right here.
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  Podcasting, you know, obviously, it's been around for a long time, but I don't think
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  people really realize the power of it until, you know, the last year's election cycle.
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  And then it really opened a lot of people's eyes that, oh, this is this is really
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  something.
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  And now, you know, people like me have realized, like, this is how God is speaking.
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  Like, this is how this is much bigger than just, you know, you having a conversation with
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  your friend.
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  It's a lot bigger than that.
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  And the more we keep talking and having interesting conversations, the more it
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  continues to grow.
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  Yeah.
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  It's it's definitely becoming the new interview news system for sure.
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  Well, it's the and it's the truth.
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  Right?
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  I mean, people wanna know your story and and to dig in a little bit to that, and you don't get
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  that in even on our local news station.
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  Right?
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  It's a two minute bit.
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  I get to play a song and talk for two minutes.
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  Alright, Bubba.
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  See you later.
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  And it's like, you know, that really wasn't That was nice.
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  Like, it looks really good in your studio, and I got to play my song, but there was no depth.
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  Right?
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  And I think that's what people want now and and why songwriters like yourself who provide that
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  depth, who are writing songs that have depth, right, I I don't think that, or I do think
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  rather that that's that's the future, that the reason that you're going to succeed is because
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  that's the way that music and just culture in general is going.
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  We've heard all the clubbangers we can handle.
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  Right?
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  Like, we're good.
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  We know that story.
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  What else is out there?
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  Totally.
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  Absolutely.
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  So, Amber, what what's next for you?
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  What, what are you working on?
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  You know, I don't wanna, like, say something and then not do it.
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  But
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  Well, say it, and then you have to do it.
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  That's what I do.
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  You're right.
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  You're right.
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  I think for this year, I'm gonna kind of relax a little bit because creating the album that I
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  did that I released in October, Man Made, destroyed me mentally, physically, emotionally.
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  It was just I put my whole heart, soul, blood, sweat, and tears into that album, and at the
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  end of it, I was just not in a good place at all.
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  So this year, I'm working hard to organize my life.
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  Everything is all about organization for planning, financial, health.
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  All of it is just about organizing.
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  And along the way, I think what I'm gonna do is keep music popping out here and there, maybe
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  release a song or two.
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  And maybe if I get more motivation halfway through the year, I'll do some sort of small
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  project.
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  But for now, I'm just gonna keep playing shows.
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  My band and I are working on getting more shows together.
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  We that's that's a brand new thing.
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  I I've only played with my band, like, three times.
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  We just formed last year, and we opened up for a touring act in Reading in May of last year.
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  That was our first show ever, which was crazy.
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  And then we played at Phantom Power, which is a local music venue to do the album release
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  party, and that was a ton of fun.
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  And then we had, like, one other show at a park in the summer.
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  And this year, my goal is to play with the band more, get us more comfortable playing together
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  and things like that.
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  And then just It's a
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  lot of fun playing with the band, ain't it?
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Those guys, let me tell you, they they're so goofy and so talented.
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  It's unbelievable to have all of that wrapped up into one, like, setting because when you
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  throw my my boyfriend, he's kinda like my manager, so to speak, so he helps me with,
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  like, a lot of that stuff.
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  So he'll be at all of the band practices, and he's, like, goofing off with the band.
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  I'm like, guys, can we can we focus?
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  Can can we get some stuff done?
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  And as soon as I say that, they go into like action mode, and then we it's like bam, bam,
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  bam, bam, bam, and then they're right back to goof mode.
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  It's it's the most hilarious thing I've ever seen in my entire life.
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  They they keep me going and keep me feeling like, I guess, it's my my happiness.
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  It keeps my happiness up.
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  Well, and I think, you know, especially going through what you did with the album, and maybe
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  we'll have you back on Get Better Together, our other show, to to talk more about all the
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  struggles and the challenges mentally and emotionally that you go through.
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  But to to be able to release that and then to not be to have so much pressure on you for the
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  live performances.
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  Right?
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  And and knowing you a little bit.
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  I know that you put a lot of pressure on yourself.
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  Probably too much so.
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  I I'm more like your bandmates where I'm like, yeah.
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  Everything's gonna be fine.
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  Don't don't freak out.
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  Right?
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  You know?
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  It's all good.
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  But it it's it's nice to have other people that you can rely on for even just a little bit of
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  levity.
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  Right?
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  Even for just a just a laugh and a giggle when you are taking things maybe a little too
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  seriously.
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  And not that our careers aren't serious, but it's it's not to wrap yourself up in knots,
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  which I've done myself.
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  Right?
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  I am not, by any means judging you, but and I I think it's just the nature of the business.
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  Right?
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  It's it's so easy to get wrapped up in, like, this is my moment.
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  Right?
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  This this one means more than any other moment before and not realizing that actually that
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  moment where you guys were all just really having a good time at practice, that was the
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  moment.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  Those are the moments that matter the most.
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  And, yeah, having a band, and not being just a solo performer, I think, facilitates that in
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  some ways and and provides that kind of a culture for a little bit looser environment.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  So it it's very nice to to have that.
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  I I've never really known that.
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  Like I said, before, like, I'd say about two years ago, I was alone in this business.
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  Like, I had my family as my support system.
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  Excuse me.
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  But I didn't have somebody who actually knew the ups and the downs, like, right there with
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  me going through it, understanding it.
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  So, it's nice to have the band and, you know, my other friends that are other solo musicians
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  that I can talk to.
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  Well, and now that community that you're building around the writers rounds and, know,
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  that that growing friends list.
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  Right?
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  And realizing that, you know, where you were as you know, you were out there kind of on your
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  own.
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  Well, now you're not on your own, but you're also kind of being looked to as a leader,
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  right, which I'm sure for a young person probably feels a little weird, but you've been
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  in this game for a long time, Amber.
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  Right?
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  Like, you have a lot of experience in this field and riding that roller coaster that,
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  like, it it's it's been given to you because you're going to be the one that helps other
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  people ride that roller coaster.
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  Right?
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  To to hold their hand and go, it's all gonna be okay.
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  Right?
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  It's it's gonna I I went through all of this stuff too.
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  And I think that when I was younger, I had a hard time accepting that because I played like,
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  everyone in my band was always older than me.
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  And not just, like, a little bit older than me, they were all twice my age.
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  And so I was always looking to them for for guidance, but the world that most of them came
• 23:48
  from was much different than the world even in the early aughts.
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  And now music is completely different than when I started playing in bars back in, like,
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  02/2003.
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  Right?
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  Like, it's Yeah.
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  The game's completely different now.
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  The pay is still the same, which is a little unfortunate, but
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  Well, we're we're working on that.
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  Like, there's
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  a I I hope an improving economy this year helps to do that as well and that we we kinda come
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  out of this.
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  And I think people appreciate music so much more now, and they appreciate original music
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  and supporting artists.
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  And like I said, it's the that's our girl kinda thing.
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  Right?
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  And you're gonna do great.
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  You're gonna be fantastic.
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  You've been in this for a long time.
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  I know it feels like it's been a really long road, but you're right there.
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  Keep on going.
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  Keep writing.
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  And whether you get it all recorded this year, who cares?
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  We're in this for the long haul anyway.
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  Right?
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  Absolutely.
• 24:45
  Well, Amber, I don't wanna keep you for too much longer today.
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  I got started late with you as it is anyway.
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  So why don't you go ahead and plug, plug all your stuff and tell people where they can find
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  you?
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  Yeah.
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  So if you go to AmberNadine.com, you can find all of my social media.
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  Pretty much get connected with me there.
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  Feel free to direct message me or send me an email just saying hey and letting me know how
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  you found me.
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  If you would like to hear me perform live, if you're in the area, I will be at Ventura's
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  Pizzeria in Fairfield, PA on, February 22 from 9PM to midnight.
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  That's kind of a late one.
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  If that one's too late for you, come on out and see me and the band headlining a show on March
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  1 at, Switchboard Studios in Columbia.
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  The doors open at six, and you can buy your tickets at the door.
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  That is fantastic.
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  Well, Amber, thank you so much for being part of the scene.
• 25:51
  Of course.
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  Thank you so much for having me.
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  It's such a joy to finally get to talk to you.
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  Elle, the honor was all mine.