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America Works From Diamond Rio Marty Roe Breaks The EP Down · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: Hey, even being in radio for 47 years, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know every single song, so it makes it even more
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  Speaker 1: fun when you get to do a show called Music's
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  Speaker 1: Lost History, the artist edition as well as the song edition.
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  Speaker 1: You can participate on arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E dot net, Music's Lost History.
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  Speaker 1: How much do you really know about the songs you're
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  Speaker 1: checking in with? Arrow.net, A-R-R-O-E dot net. Enjoy your exploration. Marty,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you with this project. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I honestly feel like that you sat down with a
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  Speaker 1: group of people and said, can we just write a
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  Speaker 1: song together about us, this generation? I mean, this song,
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  Speaker 1: America Works, it works inside my soul, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to take claim for writing it, but, uh, Jimmy, uh,
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  Speaker 3: did that and he wrote it, believe it.
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  Speaker 2: Or not, uh, eight, 10 years ago. Um, so he,
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  Speaker 2: he was, uh.
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  Speaker 3: Not let's say prophetic, but he sure was seeing, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, kind of the tendencies, um, that he.
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  Speaker 2: Had, uh, you know, we were seeing in society, I guess, but, um,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's, and we're not trying to, uh, call anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Out necessarily but definitely uh like we do in country
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  Speaker 3: music speak from our hearts about what we see in
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  Speaker 3: the life that we're living and how we feel it's
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  Speaker 3: going i guess and so um we just when he
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  Speaker 3: played it for us we were like we got to
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  Speaker 3: cut that you know i mean um i've got a you.
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  Speaker 2: Know kids uh of uh.
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  Speaker 3: Current generation in their early 30s and uh they we
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  Speaker 3: taught them to uh tend for themselves you know because
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  Speaker 3: mom and daddy ain't gonna be here to take care
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  Speaker 3: of you forever and that's the way i was raised
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  Speaker 3: and uh seems like a reasonable way to do it
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  Speaker 3: but um we that's and we see some folks who
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  Speaker 3: aren't necessarily.
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  Speaker 2: That way, but no, the bottom line. And in the video, man,
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  Speaker 2: we are championing all.
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  Speaker 3: The folks who give us the freedom to have all
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  Speaker 3: those different points of view and to be able to
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  Speaker 3: voice them and, uh, try to work together to, uh, to.
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  Speaker 2: Make us, you know, a better country and a better
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  Speaker 2: place to live.
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  Speaker 3: I traveled the world and there's beautiful places all around
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  Speaker 3: the world, beautiful people, uh, But my.
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  Speaker 2: Favorite place is right here at home. And I hope
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  Speaker 2: they enjoy where they're at.
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  Speaker 3: So anyway, but we were excited to get a chance
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  Speaker 3: just to record again. We got new people in the band.
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  Speaker 3: We got Carson and Micah. And it was time to
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  Speaker 3: let them be a part of some of the history
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  Speaker 3: of Diamond Rio. And it was awesome. We were so
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  Speaker 3: excited about that. We got a duet that I think
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  Speaker 3: the video has just come out about my experience with
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  Speaker 3: my daughter as she left home 10 years ago and
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  Speaker 3: didn't really have a woman to do a duet with
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  Speaker 3: other than my daughter. And that just didn't seem to
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  Speaker 3: work out. She did the demo, but Carson came along
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  Speaker 3: and it looked like it was time to do that
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  Speaker 3: about five her leaving and going all the way.
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  Speaker 2: To Sydney, Australia. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And, uh, so, you know, and, and we came up,
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  Speaker 3: I kept saying, you know, she went, she didn't just
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  Speaker 3: go across state or across the country. She went on
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  Speaker 3: to the other side of the world. If she'd have
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  Speaker 3: went any further, she probably would have started getting closer. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: and it was, it was tough, but, uh, Jimmy thought
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  Speaker 3: it would be a great song idea.
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  Speaker 2: And it, So that's out.
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  Speaker 3: And then we have something later that's coming that's just
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  Speaker 3: her to introduce her as a lead singer herself.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been a great project.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what, the way that you guys
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  Speaker 1: have always written it, it's almost like that you envision us.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even going back to America Works, right away
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  Speaker 1: I had this vision of that you guys sat down
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  Speaker 1: with the Youngbloods and redid Come Together. I mean, because
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  Speaker 1: this is a song that is, do you not feel it?
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  Speaker 1: Because I do. Listen to this lyric. Upside down and
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  Speaker 1: the price just dropped. I mean, I sat here and
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  Speaker 1: I stopped and I went, whoa, whoa, start this song
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  Speaker 1: all over again because I want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: feel this again to find out if it was just
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  Speaker 1: the emotion of the moment. No, you have things in
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  Speaker 1: here that really embrace where we are right now. And
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  Speaker 1: then to find out that it was written eight years ago,
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  Speaker 1: come on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunately, we haven't done a good job of turning
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  Speaker 2: things around. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But that's what music is, though, because you're a visionary,
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  Speaker 1: even with your daughter. You're a visionary of where we
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  Speaker 1: are as people.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, I don't want to get too political.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, but, you know, when my daughter
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  Speaker 3: was little and we played Little League baseball, it was
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  Speaker 3: mixed mixed league.
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  Speaker 2: It was great.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody got to bat, didn't keep score, and they gave
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  Speaker 3: everybody a trophy.
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  Speaker 2: And she didn't do that no more.
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  Speaker 3: Pops, I didn't. I didn't think that was the way
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  Speaker 3: the world worked. So we went to something else.
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  Speaker 1: Please don't move. We'll be right back with Marty Rowe
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  Speaker 1: from Diamond Rio. The name of the EP is America Works.
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  Speaker 1: It's also the title track. And there's so much more
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  Speaker 1: on this. You've got to check it out. We are
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  Speaker 1: back with Marty Rowe from Diamond Rio. We got to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that song, The Kick. And right away, I
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  Speaker 1: got to tell you something. I was hoping that you
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  Speaker 1: guys were going to mix with the people out there
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood and get Urban Cowboy 2 or something going on.
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  Speaker 1: Because that song belongs in a movie. And I swear
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  Speaker 1: to God, here at Coyote Joe's here in Charlotte, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing a line dance to it.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that was our first chance to really show off
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  Speaker 3: our new kids, our new folks in the band. And Jimmy,
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  Speaker 3: we all kind of kicked in a little bit to
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  Speaker 3: write that and had a great time shooting a video.
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  Speaker 2: All the videos that are on these songs are shot.
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  Speaker 3: And produced and edited, written by Micah Schweinsberg, our drummer.
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  Speaker 2: He is really great at it and been very helpful.
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  Speaker 2: That's kind of the way we let him let him
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  Speaker 2: loose and kind of do his thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got to tell you, I've talked with a
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  Speaker 1: lot of legends in the industry that were going, you know,
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  Speaker 1: back in the 50s and 60s. And they're so jealous
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  Speaker 1: of this generation where we are right now, even with
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  Speaker 1: Diamond Rio. because of that, because of Micah and people
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  Speaker 1: like yourself, that you're getting to do the project yourself
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  Speaker 1: and you're not just handing it off or relinquishing it
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  Speaker 1: to somebody else. And it just inspires me that you
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  Speaker 1: guys were doing this with this EP because there's a
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  Speaker 1: completely different positive vibe about this project.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you. That's an awesome thing to hear.
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  Speaker 3: That has been a conscious choice in our music from
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  Speaker 3: the very beginning is to Not maybe the classic, you know,
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  Speaker 3: stereotypical country song was, you know, kind of negative, lose
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  Speaker 3: your car, lose your.
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  Speaker 2: Wife, whatever, you know. And we just, that's not who
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  Speaker 2: we are. We're positive. We're about positive.
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  Speaker 3: Love and that lasts forever and you know all the
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  Speaker 3: all the great things that can be uh in life
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  Speaker 3: and especially in this country and so we wrote about
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  Speaker 3: that and guess what there were a few million people
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  Speaker 3: who felt the same way as us we've been uh
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  Speaker 3: able to do it for 35 years now what a blessing.
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  Speaker 1: Wow I think the song Other Side of the World
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the father-daughter dance of weddings. Because,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, even though my daughter went to Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: the very fact that you were talking about your daughter
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  Speaker 1: going to Sydney, she may have been in Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 1: but she might as well have been in Sydney. And
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  Speaker 1: I could relate with everything that you're sharing with this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't get there real quick.
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  Speaker 3: I'll get there, but I can't swim that fast.
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  Speaker 1: So, how does it change the merch when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to adding someone like Carson into the band? Because merch
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  Speaker 1: is everything. I mean, if you come through Charlotte right now,
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  Speaker 1: everybody is wearing the merch, and that's got to be
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  Speaker 1: a big thing for the band.
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  Speaker 3: It is, and we like Chicago now. We just play
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  Speaker 3: the logo. We just do the logo. When you're, you know,
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  Speaker 3: our age, I don't want to see no more pictures
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  Speaker 3: of me anyway. But we've done all them photo shoots,
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  Speaker 3: and she draws attention away from all of our age
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  Speaker 3: and wrinkles.
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  Speaker 1: It's so true. It's so true. I think that's one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons why I don't like to do video.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, listen, it's the one thing that we have,
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  Speaker 1: the art of listening. And that's the way the music
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  Speaker 1: is with Diamond Rio. Listen to the lyrics and get
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  Speaker 1: into the emotion. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Where can people go to find out more about where
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  Speaker 1: you guys are on tour, how they can tap into
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  Speaker 1: this EP and grow with you, especially with these videos,
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  Speaker 1: because we are back to a video generation.
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  Speaker 3: We most certainly are, and that's kind of interesting to me,
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  Speaker 3: but I guess it makes sense with all the instant
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  Speaker 3: stuff that people put up all the time. So it's
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  Speaker 3: all visual, and it's on the phone or on some device.
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  Speaker 3: And so I thought the video era, which we kind
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  Speaker 3: of came out in the, prime time of it, the
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  Speaker 3: early 90s, the late 80s and early 90s and all that.
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  Speaker 3: It was such a tool to be able to put
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  Speaker 3: a face with the song. I grew up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: listening to music, not knowing what artists look like, and
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  Speaker 3: really didn't know I should.
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  Speaker 2: Care. You know, I just love the music.
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  Speaker 3: And then sometimes, you know, there are some artists who
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  Speaker 3: it would be better if you didn't see their videos
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  Speaker 3: and how they interpreted a song. But that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that was a great, a really interesting extra marketing tool.
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  Speaker 3: And I think for most people, they used it very well.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there are certain songs like Norma Jean Riley.
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  Speaker 3: We never did a video because everybody that heard the
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  Speaker 3: song early on Said, oh, I can.
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  Speaker 2: See the video.
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  Speaker 3: So anything you would shoot would mess everybody's video in
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  Speaker 3: their head. If a song can draw mental images in
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  Speaker 3: your head, it makes it personal to you, to every individual.
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  Speaker 3: And you can't beat that with an actual video.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to come back to this show anytime in
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  Speaker 1: the future. And if you come through Charlotte, we got
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  Speaker 1: to have some face to face time, sir.
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  Speaker 2: We'll do it. The home of NASCAR. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know it, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my God, I love you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you be brilliant today, okay, sir?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.