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Lady A Proud But Not Done Yet · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Uh, I'm excited because these guys have done amazing things in their career and
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  the cool thing is they keep I don't want to say reinventing, because you
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  do what you do, but you find a way to do it. New
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  Lady A is in the house. What's up, y'all? Hey, good
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  to see you, got good to see you guys. First of all,
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  how good does it feel? The holidays is a nice reset, right,
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  hang with the family, hang with kids, just unplug in general. But
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  how good does it feel to be like all right? Because you need a
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  break at some point you're like love y'all, but like go away for a
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  few weeks. We had holiday break and then if you live in Nashville,
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  you know, about two weeks after school started back, we got a ton
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  of snow and so then we were all snowed in for a week. So
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  definitely feeling like you know, January right here at the tail end of it.
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  Find in our rhythm for sure. What's the best part about when you
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  guys get back together, like after a holiday break or like you come off
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  the road tour, Like what's the best markets? Like best friends? It's
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  like I've got, you know, a couple buddies that we see each other
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  once twice a year, and it's like no time has passed. Same thing
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  with us and everybody, you know, the first fifty minutes is asking about
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  what our kids are doing. But there's always just a new excitement too,
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  and with anytime we have something new and new music to talk about, and
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  that kind of that like cautiously optimistic excitement. The uncertainty is it gonna work?
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  People gonna love it? I hope, you know, And you don't
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  know if they're gonna, you know, like it or not. And so
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  there's I love that feeling of just the unknown. But as far as us
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  getting back together, man, it's always like no time. You know,
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  we're always in constant communication. They're not to say we're on a group text
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  that one of us says something every day, probably every day, I know
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  what, we know what everybody's jave, just got back from a Honting trip.
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  Hillary's girl's been in a play, you knows, just turned six.
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  Yeah, yeah, I'm probably on a golf course. Not not right now.
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  I will say, you guys do a phenomenal job, and it's and
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  i'd imagine it's it's easy to lose your identity when you guys are built career
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  wise the way you are, but you do a phenomenal job that like being
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  individuals because there's a lot of groups. It's like, oh, yeah,
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  I know, I'm not gonna use names because but there's a band that you're
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  like, oh, I know that band. Who's your favorite? The guy
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  the one with the right but everybody knows y'all's names. You've done a phenomenal
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  job like being a group of being an individual Was that on purpose? Like
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  let's be together but not lose ourselves. I mean, I think I don't
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  know if we fell into it. I think over the years of being in
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  a band together for seventeen years, realizing that we need to celebrate who we
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  are as individuals and what we bring to the table. I think has been
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  a huge part of our work of like we love that we're a part of
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  this thing that we get to do together, but who we are separately is
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  to be celebrated to. I mean, like, for example, Dave can
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  do all of the tech production amazing. I mean, he would listen to
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  all the voicemails on tour that we would be putting together to put the set
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  list together, like all the things techy production, and Dave is like the
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  guru. We all have our roles, you know that that we lean into
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  and celebrate in one another. How has that helped you over time because obviously
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  most recently within the last lesson a year, right, No, it's actually
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  been a year and a half now has really over year and half? Yeah?
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  Wow? Yeah, sober for yeah, but but you have but you
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  put out your own project. Oh gosh, you put out your own music,
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  right yeah, well the first yeah, the project, uh, which
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  we always laugh. I was like it was when Hillary had her first child.
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  I was like, I realized that I'm not good at sitting still.
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  But I've had a handful of songs that you know, never fit our project
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  that I wanted to show the world. And and then shortly after my sobriety
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  journey, Dave and I wrote a song called as Far as You Could,
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  just about about that journey. And so I think that's what's nice about kind
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  of where we're at is people realize, because you know, the past,
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  it might have been a fear of like, oh, if we do something,
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  you know outside of the group, they're gonna think we're breaking up.
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  I think people get it now. And it's like it's not really our you
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  know, for me, it's just putting out music. It's not a focus
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  of trying to like build necessarily some separate thing, you know. It's just
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  like it's nice to be able to have different artistic outlets, but it but
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  always know that, you know, Ladier is the home that you come back
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  to. And I just think we're in such a cool spot too, where
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  we all have different inspirations, you know, where we kind of come in
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  and like what's going on in your life and wanting to write and be in
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  a really honest place with our songwriting. I think is leading us into a
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  cool direction with this project. When it comes to the last release we had
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  from you guys October, right, the two Song Project yep. Yeah,
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  So that's unique because usually it's like here's an album which now can be up
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  to one hundred and seventy eight thousand songs. Yeah, but what what made
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  that? Because usually if it's an EP, we're talking like four or five
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  six songs tops. What's what made this project? Like, hey, these
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  two deserve to kind of live together and in their own space. Mean,
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  we actually had a lot of feedback from fans when we cut this music.
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  So we cut a handful of songs and had a fan event last year and
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  started just kind of hearing kind of like our tour when we would take request
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  every night, got fans to actually write down on a little card which ones
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  they loved. At a listening party, we had these two really kind of
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  stood out, love You Back, and then another one called a love song.
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  But we're all, I mean, we're all circling the runway trying to
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  figure out how we put out music. You know, the industry continues to
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  shift. We still love albums, but also want to be able to put
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  out music when we're fired up about it too, and felt that way,
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  especially about love You Back after hearing from the fans. Song also be a
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  part of a project that we end up you know, putting out here recently
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  or here soon. You know. For us right now, we're just like,
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  let's let the music dictate where we go. And so, you know,
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  love You Back felt like such a great, you know, kind of
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  kick off to some new music. And you know, who knows throughout this
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  process this year we may develop a concept album and all of a sudden those
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  songs will fit on there. So but I think having that freedom of not
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  boxing ourselves in anything is kind of a little bit of that kind of cool
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  uncertainty that I'm kind of thriving off of lately, where I kind of embrace
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  it and that's what makes life fun. Is like, I don't know where
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  this is going to go, but it's God's going to lead it somewhere that
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  it's supposed to go. Is it crazy to think of where music and your
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  careers have gone that Literally, you could walk out of here and Dave thinks
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  of a song idea, everybody gets together after dinner later tonight, super passionate.
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  Hey, let's write this you recorded tomorrow and people could be listening to
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  it Friday, like music never existed like that before. Yeah. Yeah,
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  Yeah, we've seen a lot of change for sure. I mean not only
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  just as music lovers growing up, but then once we got into the business
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  ourselves. I mean, it is so immediate now, which there's such an
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  excitement to that. And it also, you know, if you're not kind
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  of keeping a handle on yourself, can feel like a whole lot of pressure,
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  you know, and a whole lot of pressure to just create, create,
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  create and produce so much and just making sure that that you know,
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  it's led by the art, it's led by the inspiration creatively to put it
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  out into the world. I was going to ask that because similar to the
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  way music is released, social media kind of runs the world too. And
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  I mean, especially what we do. You could see, oh, this
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  person did this and this person did this. I have anxiety because I haven't
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  done any you know what I mean. Does that exist in the music creation
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  now that it's so as quick too, I mean it can be, you
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  know, for us right now, it's definitely focused on quality more than quantity.
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  But you know, we also are who we are, and it's like,
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  you know, I think we started off and felt like we were kind
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  of ahead of the curve, taking video cameras around and posting them up on
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  Facebook, and then it kind of moved into this Instagram world. Well then
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  we got four you could video on your phone, and then we had you
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  know, family, and it was there was definitely that pressure of like,
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  I can't keep up with this, and you know what, sometimes I'm not
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  going to try. And you know, I think to being in a group
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  and being around for you know, close to seventeen years, we've seen so
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  many trends come and go and go, and I feel like, you know,
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  the one thing I've learned is you can't chase it. The minute you
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  start chasing a trend, you know, where everybody's like, all right,
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  now, Morgan's hot, and then you start getting a bunch of people trying
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  to silent Morgan. It's like, then it's going to be the next person.
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  And you know, and I feel like the thing that you just have
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  to remain as an artist in your heart is the sound that you've created.
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  And I think to embrace a little change and push yourself, but stay stay
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  true to that core of what you really love. You know, if it
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  doesn't excite you, it's not going to excite the audience. This is where
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  I quote Bluie's mom, it's a lot of Bluey with my children. Run
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  your own Race. Hey, that's great, Actually it is, it is,
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  and that is truly. I mean it sounds silly, but that show
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  has got a lot of wisdom. But that's it. It's like going to
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  got a nice, nice going to run our own race. It's a good
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  song title, good song title, because it is. It's coming out Friday,
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  No, it is, it's it's interesting and every you know, everybody
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  has their own way of discovering new music and celebrating the artists they love and
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  all that. But for me personally, every now and then, I like,
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  I like when you know, for example, John Mayer goes away and
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  then I've had enough space from the last John Mayer project or the last John
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  Mayor show that I watched, and to go, huh, I wonder what
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  he's doing and then go search. It's like, there's there's beauty in missing
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  something and then kind of longing for it. I feel I feel like they're
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  the artists that do that really well. I just I think it's really wise.
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  I think they're they're obviously really hopefully taking care of themselves in the way
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  that they create art in the process, and I think that that shows in
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  the beauty of what they make. Going back to you, guys, are
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  to the point in your career and this is definitely a compliment. If you
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  go to a Lady A show, you end up going, oh my god,
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  I forgot about this, right though, oh my god moments exist in
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  the Lady A show because you have so many different hits. People are like,
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  I can't wait to hear this, this, this, and then halfway
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  through the show, they reach over and hit their friend like they knew this
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  one. I forgot going through those songs and the moments and the tours and
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  we were Tay and I were working in Vegas during your residency. Goes through
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  those moments and a feature you have a different answer. That's fine too.
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  You look back, there's still plenty of lady a story to be told.
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  But you look back today to day one, what are you like, Holy
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  hell, that actually happened. Gosh. I feel like there's been several of
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  those moments, but I mean the things that jump out to me is like,
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  you know, getting asked to become a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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  Like I'll never forget that moment when we stood on stage and saying with
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  Chris Christopherson at a stand up to cancer telethon, like you know, and
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  got to sing help me make it through the night with him. Like things
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  like moments like that that just jump out. And that was one in particular
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  that I just really remember this morning. It was like, oh, they
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  did that, you know, And it's those things, it's the it's yeah,
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  those are those for me traveling around the world. I mean I never
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  would have thought, you know, our music would take us to Australia,
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  you know, Europe. You know, we've looked at even going to other
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  places too. I mean it's just wild to think how far your music can
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  reach, you know, and that how special that is. So yeah,
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  it's pretty pretty surreal when you put when you kind of walk through the last
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  you know, sixteen seventeen years of what we've been able to do. So
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  we feel super lucky and blessed to be here. When it comes to the
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  music that we are looking forward to. Obviously you're creating, you're probably writing,
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  maybe not recording yet, right, just getting back both a little bit
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  both. Do you know what you want to do next? Not that we
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  won't ask dates or names, but do you have a plan? Are you
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  like, let's record and see what happens. Yeah, I think that's where
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  we are. I mean we've got a handful of dates this year. You
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  know, we got off obviously a pretty busy year last year with a request
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  line tour, and I think want to give our space to create, give
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  ourselves space to create, and not force it, you know. I mean
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  if I look back some some moments in our career, I wish maybe we
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  had had an extra a month or two to to you know, spend a
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  little bit more time creatively on stuff, even if nothing came from it,
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  just a mental break, you know. And so to me, I think
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  we're just gonna we don't want to look back and be like, gosh,
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  you know, you just wanted these moments to kind of because I don't think
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  I'll ever be happy if I didn't have have something to look forward to,
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  like something with the band and being up back up on that stage. And
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  I don't want it to get to a point where we run ourselves so ragged
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  that then you kind of you do it and it's gone. It's like I
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  would. I love where we're at now, where it seems like we're building
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  this kind of runway to where we can kind of dip in and out and
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  be able to actually give ourselves some long space, like Hillary said, for
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  people to miss us a little bit, for us to like find out where
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  we want to go with this. And I think there really is something nice
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  about this complete, beautiful uncertainty that I'm not sure where it's going to head
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  musically or where it's going to go, but I know I know it's going
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  to reveal itself, and there's not a ton of pressure because it's like we've
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  already had this body of work, like you said that we can always rely
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  on it's always going to be there. But I do think the artist in
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  us wants to keep creating and pushing ourselves. So it's like it's kind of
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  a beautiful spot of like, you know, we could sit back and kind
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  of just keep torn on the same music forever, but there's still a fire
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  in our ability that wants to see where we're going to go. And some
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  of my favorite artists in their careers have had so many different iterations. I
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  mean when you look at Willie Nelson, I mean, you know the artist
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  he was when he started the songwriter, to then the outlaw, to then
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  you know this icon and it's like, you know, there was a lot
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  of ups and downs and waves, and just I feel like you as long
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  as you stay authentic to it, that you can ride those waves and kind
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  of just enjoy the process. Anybody who is a lady, a fan,
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  even if like a little right, they see that you guys are up here,
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  always busy, always working on something, whether it's in the studio or
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  at what point in your career. Because everybody starts burning the candle at both
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  ends. At what point were you guys like mental because mental health and especially
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  in country music in general, I feel like over the past couple of years,
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  it's like, hey, let's take care of each other and ourselves.
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  It's come to the forefront more than ever. So at what until you started,
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  You had your first child and we all kind of all started. Yeah,
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  I was actually I was going to say, I feel like we really
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  started prioritizing our own individual health and the health of the band as a whole.
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  Probably in like seventeen eighteen was really when it became a huge which thankfully,
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  looking back, I don't have this forever. I had this just ha,
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  this epiphany. It's like that we started laying that foundation of communication and
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  being open and honest with each other pre pandemic, which I'm very very grateful
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  for looking back, because that was hard on all, you know, in
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  so many ways. So yeah, I would say seventeen eighteen, twenty seventeen
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  eighteen, and we had gone and sat and had kind of a mediator to
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  help us work through some things before that. That was so healthy and good.
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  But the consistency that we've maintained was about then. I mean you have
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  to be intentional about it. I mean, you know, I feel lucky
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  that we can say no to things right, and so we can. I
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  think we can pace out the sort of schedule that fits for all of us.
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  You know. I think one of my favorite things is when we get
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  to sit down and kind of map out the year right, and it's like,
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  hey, we got this great opportunity here, and let's do this,
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  let's do this. But it's like, hey, my daughter's in a play
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  on May fourth, and I'm here for it, so that days off.
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  You know, we really try to map out great windows our family. So
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  yeah, it does. I think we want it to look like we've always
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  got you know, the new music and new stuff happening, But we definitely
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  carve out personal things that are super important to the three of us, and
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  that's a priority, and we have to sit and talk about it, be
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  intentional about it, and you know, I'm thankful we can do that now.
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  Yes, it's funny you bring up May fourth if your daughter does have
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  a play in going to make it because you're busy. I know, as
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  soon as he said, I'm like ye to record that May fourth. You
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  guys are a part of you talk about, you know, still saying yes
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  to things, but like also kind of managing those yeses. And it's not
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  which sounds like when you say it that way, like selfish, like oh,
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  because you're too cool. No, it's like we have to be human
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  too, right. So with that part of the things y'all have said yes
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  to in twenty twenty four is our iHeart Country Festival, which is has become
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  I mean, we're year ten eleven unbelievable and it's cool to see because yes,
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  there's festival that last you know, three four days at a time,
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  but like this is one night, it's one stage. This year it's Lady
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  A, It's Jason Eldan, it's Jellyroll, Old Dominion. We're going to
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  actually make it sound like Asley McBride, Riley Green Walker, Hayes, I'm
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  forgetting somebody, did I say, Brothers Osborne. I mean it's unbelievable when
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  it comes to an event like that where you you're not just doing a show,
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  you can see the show or maybe even talk backstage and visit with people.
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  How important is that for you? Maybe not mental health wise, but
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  like looking forward to shows because otherwise every city, every show, it's not
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  washer it's repeat, but close. Right. When it comes to a show
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  like this, why does it stand out? And what does it mean for
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  you to be a part of gosh? I mean, just the lineup alone,
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  to be in their company, in the company of all those artists you
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  just listed, is extremely humbling and exciting and such a great kind of I
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  think, spread of what our genre is and what it's doing. And I
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  also just love the opportunity to catch up with a lot of these artists.
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  I mean, the only other times we really get to do that are at
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  award shows and when everybody's running around, you know, crazy, and especially
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  if you're a female, you're in glam for hours, and you know,
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  it's just a longer glam time. So just to be able to connect and
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  see how everybody's doing, I mean, I think that because we do,
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  we have such mutual respect for one another and really our friends with so many
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  of the artists in our genre. So that's what I look forward to,
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  the connection time, for sure, And like I mean, and you want
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  to bring it, you know, I mean, all those artists are in
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  that room and you're like, you know, so, I mean, for
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  me already thinking about it, I'm like I want to bring a really high
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  energy show to that moment, you know, and you know, it just
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  gets exciting to be like, like like Hillary said, to still be you
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  know, a band that's been around for sixty seventeen years and still be you
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  know, a part of what's new, stuff happening, what's been around for
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  a while. And to feel like you know, you're you're, you're in
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  this, You're in this family with so many different styles. And I think
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  that's why I love the genre so much, is so many different styles are
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  represented, uh in that one night. And to be in front of die
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  hard country pants because if they're coming to the iHeart they're die hard country pants.
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  You know, when it comes to a show like that versus a regular
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  tour stop, how do you put together And obviously you're not talking about a
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  set list for a show like that may fourth I'm already thinking about it.
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  But but when but when you think, obviously it's not a full lady a
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  show, you know, ninety plus minutes. Uh so you gotta you gotta
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  almost like squeeze the orange a little tighter on a show like that. Uh
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  So, how do you build what's a set list like for that versus a
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  normal night, Charles, Really it's going to be you know, hit them
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  hard. But then like that way when you do get you know, a
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  moment for a special song or a new song, you know it means some
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  thing and then you know, but I love it. I mean, I
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  think that's my favorite is honestly when it's like you have to create what's gonna
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  what's gonna hit the most in this environment, and it and it all,
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  it really is dictated by the crowd. And if they're up, they've been
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  staying around and they you know, we just got done and we're following you
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  know, someone like Al Dean or whatever it might be, or whoever.
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  You know, you better keep them on their feet. You know, you
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  don't want to be the one to kind of you don't want to be the
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  bathroom. Yeah, you don't want to be the one to suck the life
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  out of the room. So it's fun. I mean, that's my favorite
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  thing to do, is to is to finally be a group that has a
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  collection of songs where we can pick and choose which ones are gonna fit the
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  best in what environment. I'm gonna corner you and answer as good as you
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  can, because this is gonna get clipped and shared on social media. Let's
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  say I handed you a piece of paper. I'm not asking for the whole
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  thing. I saw your eyes gonna go hang on. Uh, if if
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  you had to tell me right now, what show you're going to open?
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  Lady A set at the Eye Country Festival with on how many songs? Yeah,
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  honestly probably you look good. Kick it out really hard with the horns
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  or a bartender. You know, I think you come out swinging. You
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  know, it's something fun. I mean on the nights in there is a
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  good option too, and then you know, you kind of ease and I
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  tell you as many times that we've tried not to finish, not to end
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  the show on the You Now, it's like you now is the This is
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  always kind of the last one. It's funny with the song like that.
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  Usually it's like tempo, bam, the confetti hits, the lights turn on,
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  and everyone goes home. But like, there's something about that song that
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  one. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter wherever you are. I mean,
• 21:37
  the confetti is weird, but it works, but it's fun. Last
• 21:42
  thing I want to ask you, guys, is we wrap things up?
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  Uh? You are constantly creating, whether it's individuals or you get together for
• 21:49
  a project. When it comes to the current single, why did that make
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  sense for right now? Yeah? Well, this song, we just we
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  loved it so much. I mean, it was a song that sent to
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  Charles. You know, we write, like Charles said earlier, seventy five
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  percent of our own music, you know. But we have learned over the
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  years, and I think pretty early on, like if the outside song that
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  we get sent is so strong that we wish we would have written it,
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  we need to put our ego down and cut it in. And so there
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  have been you know, American Honey is an example of that. What if
• 22:22
  I Never get over You as an example of that, and this song is
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  also an example of that, and we just I love the lyric. I
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  think, you know, anytime I can close my eyes and listen to a
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  song and see a movie play, I'm just I'm so sucked in. And
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  I also just think that it's just an interesting way to talk about heartbreak and
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  to talk about the memory of someone you love. And it wasn't originally a
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  duet when we were sent the song, and so then Charles, you can
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  take it from here you'r A and R and no. I mean I think
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  for me, we're always trying to think of, you know, how to
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  get both perspectives on that, and it just again it just felt like it
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  felt like a sound from us that we wanted to put out that we hadn't
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  done in a while, you know, because if you look at kind of
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  some of our last few big number ones, you know, you got like
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  you look Good, you got Champagne Night, you know you Bartender thrown in
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  there, you know. So I think I think it's nice to remind people,
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  you know that that we're also the band that does you know, American
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  Honey, you know, need You Now, and like those kind of songs,
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  and this one definitely had it just felt right. I mean, I
• 23:25
  think sometimes I try not to overthink it as much anymore. Anytime we tried
• 23:30
  to force things, it almost seems like it never works. And this one
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  just really showed itself as a special off the project. You know, whether
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  it was a tempo, mid tempo or a ballot, it's like, let's
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  just put out what really speaks to us, and this one really spoke to
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  us. That's awesome. I appreciate it, guys. Next for the time,
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  thank you,