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Katie spoke with multi Golden Guitar winner Sara Storer about her new single, written in Girraween, and her life in the Territory · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Now, I love a bit of country music. I think
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  Speaker 1: that lots of people probably know that. Growing up in
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  Speaker 1: Mount Isa, it's hard not to like country music. But
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  Speaker 1: my next guest is an Australian country music legend. She
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  Speaker 1: is a twenty one time Golden Guitar winner and has
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  Speaker 1: released a new song with James Blundelle. Her name is
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Storer and I'm very excited that she is right
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  Speaker 1: here in the studio with me.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good a Katie.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what now, I got a message on
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  Speaker 1: Friday morning and it was from you, and I thought,
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  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is a bit exciting. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: get more exciting than Sarah Stora sending you a message
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  Speaker 1: to say she's got a new new trackout.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, sorry about that after stalking you there, Katie, but
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  Speaker 2: I thought, what's the chances Katie might just play the song?
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  Speaker 2: And body, I know you've asked me to come in
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  Speaker 2: and yes, so thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I just thought, how wonderful that you're living here
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  Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory these days, aren't you. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave and the kids and I moved back a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago, you know, we did. We were
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  Speaker 2: here prior to that, and we took off to Aubury
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  Speaker 2: to give down South a bit of a go, but
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't our place. We just we're happy back up here,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, loving it.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've lived in the likes of Camerwheel, You've
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  Speaker 1: lived in Catherine, you're a teacher in Catherine, and also
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  Speaker 1: in some of the remote communities as well.
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  Speaker 2: Were CALKARINGI spent about five years out there, year in Catherine,
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I've lived on the Central Coast for a
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  Speaker 2: long time for about twelve years. That was music that
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  Speaker 2: was working on and I was single, and then I
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  Speaker 2: met Dave up here visiting and so that's what landed
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  Speaker 2: me back here, Hobby and you know, pregnant a few
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  Speaker 2: months later.
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  Speaker 1: And so's your husband a territory boy.
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  Speaker 2: Well, no, he's actually a Sydney boy. But ever he
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  Speaker 2: was right in the middle of Sydney and all the
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  Speaker 2: country borders would come into his school and he see
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  Speaker 2: these kids are really, you know, good, good kids, all farmers,
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  Speaker 2: and he said that's what he wanted to do, was
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  Speaker 2: to go and live out bush, be a farmer or
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  Speaker 2: just work on the land. So he's been doing it
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  Speaker 2: for twenty something years.
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  Speaker 1: How awesome. Like I always think, it doesn't get better
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  Speaker 1: than when you meet nice, good kind country people. And
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  Speaker 1: you can tell, I reckon when people have grown up
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  Speaker 1: in the bush, or when they love living in the
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  Speaker 1: bush and love living in places like the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's what country music's about too. We often
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  Speaker 2: got our ears open for beautiful bush stories about characters
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  Speaker 2: and places and and you know, the stories haven't all
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  Speaker 2: been sung yet. So it's always a great thing for
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  Speaker 2: country music because you're always listening for that next song
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  Speaker 2: that hasn't been written.
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  Speaker 1: Now, tell me a little bit about this new track
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  Speaker 1: that you've written with James Blundell. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So James and I are sharing the stage next year
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  Speaker 2: at Tamworth Country Music Festival, and I just thought, oh, look,
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  Speaker 2: I'll just give it a go. I'll try and write
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  Speaker 2: a song for us that we can get out this
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  Speaker 2: year so then we can make it something special for
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  Speaker 2: the show next year. So I had a few attempts,
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  Speaker 2: so horrible. The songs were horrible. I don't believe what
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  Speaker 2: they were. And so I grabbed an old song of
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  Speaker 2: his Way out West with James Ray and the Big Kid,
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  Speaker 2: and I picked one of my old title Sweet Dreams,
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  Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, that that sounds good. Raunchy love affair,
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  Speaker 2: and I really liked what I'd written, and I thought,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a waste of time, money and a waste
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  Speaker 2: of people, sorry, people's ears for three and a half
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  Speaker 2: miss minutes listening to a song that I want to
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  Speaker 2: listen to. So I really had to believe in the song,
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  Speaker 2: and James said yes, so we recorded it and yeah
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  Speaker 2: it turned out all right, Well we're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to play it in a couple of minutes, but
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  Speaker 1: tell me more think you're going to be So you
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  Speaker 1: guys are going to be sharing the stage in Tamworth
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  Speaker 1: at the Country Music Festival early next year early.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tamworth starts to end of January, sort of mid January,
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  Speaker 2: so hopefully it will all go ahead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What's it been like over the last couple of years
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  Speaker 1: with COVID and you know, trying to be the country
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  Speaker 1: music artists that you are and still perform, But it's
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  Speaker 1: been such a difficult time.
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  Speaker 2: I'd imagine it's been very quiet, and you know, I've
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  Speaker 2: been one of the lucky ones, you know, living up here.
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  Speaker 2: We just got in time before everything's shut down, so
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  Speaker 2: we've had it pretty good up here compared to you know,
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  Speaker 2: down South and what a lot of musicians have been
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  Speaker 2: through down South. But it's just been quiet. And I
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  Speaker 2: think what's hard is every time you go to plan
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  Speaker 2: a tour within twenty four hours, that can all come
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  Speaker 2: crashing down and you're changing flights, so you're finding band
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  Speaker 2: members from the same state because they can't get across border.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been difficult for the music industry. But the
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  Speaker 2: light is shining kind of ye it was the other day.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know about now, But anyway.
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  Speaker 1: It's so hard, isn't it, Like you know, things just
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  Speaker 1: changed from day to day and you don't know exactly
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  Speaker 1: what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the unknowing, you know. And just for our family,
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  Speaker 2: just travel plans, we've now canceled all everything in your
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  Speaker 2: New South Wales, but because we've got to get Harry,
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  Speaker 2: one of our boys, a starting boarding school in Brisbane.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't want to take all the kids in
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  Speaker 2: your New South in case they lock us out of QUEENSLANDA.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's the unknowing is just worried, so you're
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  Speaker 2: better off just not taking a risky stake.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, that's how I think, That's how a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people are feeling at this point. Now, tell me
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  Speaker 1: did you write this song here in the Northern Territory.
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  Speaker 2: I did out of Girrowhen. I love that very inspirational
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  Speaker 2: place out there.
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  Speaker 1: How awesome. And living in the territory.
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  Speaker 2: We love it. And Dave's in the cattle industry, so
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  Speaker 2: he's back doing what he loves and he knows everyone
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  Speaker 2: from everywhere. And I've always loved it up here. Teaching
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  Speaker 2: out Bush was my first experience apart from living in
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  Speaker 2: Camelwell and experience that remote life. But I just loved it.
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  Speaker 2: What a treasure and really glad I I had the
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  Speaker 2: courage to go out and do something when I was
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  Speaker 2: so young. Yeah, somewhere so remote, it was just a treasure.
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  Speaker 2: I loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what. Twenty one golden guitars.
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  Speaker 1: Has anyone else won that many? Ever?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? They're very in front. Yeah yeah, I'm trying to.
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  Speaker 1: But they're not territories like you are that will claim
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  Speaker 1: you to get these days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeahah, they really are, but you know so, Yeah you're lucky. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I reckon, I'll be lucky for I ever see another
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  Speaker 2: one but hey, I'm happy with twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you got to be happy with that.
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  Speaker 1: You are an amazingly talented woman. And I love my
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  Speaker 1: country music and I had to listen to this beautiful song.
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  Speaker 1: On the weekend, we'll play it for our listeners now.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah Stora, thank you so much for joining us in
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  Speaker 1: the studio.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: We really appreciate