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From The Voice to Nashville: Rae Lynn Shares Her Music Journey and Dream of Walking with Dolly Parton · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, listeners, this is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville. I hope everyone has been enjoying the
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  Speaker 2: guest I have had so far this year on the podcast,
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  Speaker 2: and I am so enthralled with Nashville and music city
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  Speaker 2: myself because I am also a musician. I just released
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  Speaker 2: a new single called it Can't Rain All the Time.
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  Speaker 2: Check it out on all streaming platforms under Sarah Harrelson
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  Speaker 2: and give me a follow. But enough about me today.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me on Taking a Walk Nashville is a very
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  Speaker 2: special guest, country artist ray Lynn. She is a former
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  Speaker 2: contestant of the Voice and two time ACM Awards nominee.
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  Speaker 2: She has garnered over a billion career streams and recently
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  Speaker 2: started working with Jonas Group Entertainment last year for her
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  Speaker 2: new releases. I am so excited to have her on today.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Taking a Walk Nashville with your hosts singer
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  Speaker 1: songwriter Sarah Harrelson.
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  Speaker 2: Raylyn, thank you so much for being on at Taking
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  Speaker 2: a Walk Nashville today. You look stunning. How are you?
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  Speaker 3: Thank you?
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  Speaker 4: I am good, just you know, getting it's been a
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  Speaker 4: it's been a fun year so far, been kind of
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  Speaker 4: getting into the groove with Daisy, my daughter, and.
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  Speaker 3: Writing a lot this the beginning of this year.
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  Speaker 4: We start touring in April, so it's been kind of
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  Speaker 4: a little fun a few months off, but I'm already
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  Speaker 4: missing the road, so I'm excited to see the fans again.
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  Speaker 4: But it's been it's been a good little time off
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  Speaker 4: and kind of recharging for the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I saw your recent clip. You were taking
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  Speaker 2: your daughter Daisy to the American Girls Store, and I
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  Speaker 2: love to see that. Little girls are still I'm playing
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  Speaker 2: with American Girl dolls.
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  Speaker 3: It's so cute.
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  Speaker 4: We went for International Women's Day and my my mom,
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  Speaker 4: her me ma took her. So I was thankful to
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  Speaker 4: not get that bill and let my mom o of that.
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  Speaker 4: But no, it was it was super fun. She had
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  Speaker 4: a great time, and you know, it's so much It's
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  Speaker 4: so much fun being able to create memories with her.
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  Speaker 4: And I remember when I got my first American Girl doll,
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  Speaker 4: so it was really sweet for her to get to
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  Speaker 4: experience out with my mom.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. I definitely had those growing up. And
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned that you're hitting the road later this year.
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  Speaker 2: You're joining Luke Bryan on his Word on the Street tour.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's kicking off on May twenty ninth in New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 2: continuing through the fall. This is very exciting. Have you
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  Speaker 2: toured with Luke Brian before?
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  Speaker 4: The last time I was on tour with Luke was
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  Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen because I was going back to different
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  Speaker 4: you know, two different photos, and when I saw this,
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  Speaker 4: I actually was wearing this. I can always remember a
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  Speaker 4: clothes more than I can remember dates.
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  Speaker 3: Which is insane, a classicrall thing, and I was like,
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  Speaker 3: what did I wear?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? I wear these cute little black Levi shorts and
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  Speaker 4: this bedazzled cama.
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  Speaker 3: Like crop like a strapless top that was so cute.
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  Speaker 3: I have to find a picture. But no, it's been
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  Speaker 3: a while obviously, so I'm excited.
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  Speaker 4: It's been like seven years since I've toured with him,
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  Speaker 4: so it's gonna be super fun. And I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if you know much about his lineup, but he does
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  Speaker 4: this cool thing on his tour where it's like every
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  Speaker 4: every day of the show, like you figure out where
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  Speaker 4: you are in the lineup, and so he has all
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  Speaker 4: these different openers, so there's three openers per each show,
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  Speaker 4: and like the night either the night before or the
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  Speaker 4: morning of the show. We'll either find out if we're
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  Speaker 4: playing first, second, or third, and you don't know till
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  Speaker 4: the day of, which I think is so cool because
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  Speaker 4: he wants everybody to experience what it's like to be
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  Speaker 4: direct support, which I think is such a cool thing
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  Speaker 4: that Luke does, and that's cool that he can do that.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm excited to try that out. And I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Luke is so sweet. He's always been so precious to me.
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  Speaker 4: He was actually one of the first celebrities I met
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  Speaker 4: right after The Voice. I have a picture of me
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  Speaker 4: and him at Stage Coach when I was eighteen, and
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  Speaker 4: I just couldn't believe that I was meeting Luke Bryan,
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  Speaker 4: the guy who's saying rand is a good thing because
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  Speaker 4: that's the song we loved in Texas. But no, it's
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  Speaker 4: gonna be definitely a full circle moment.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that'll be so much fun. People can find tickets
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  Speaker 2: to these shows through your website. And you're also playing
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  Speaker 2: CMA Fest this summer in Nashville. Do you know what
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  Speaker 2: stage you're playing yet.
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  Speaker 3: I'm playing Riverfront stage. I am so excited.
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  Speaker 4: Last year we were supposed to play Riverfront and we
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  Speaker 4: have like some crazy storm that came in and like random,
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  Speaker 4: it was so crazy because it was like sunny outside
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  Speaker 4: but there was lightning and so of course you can't
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  Speaker 4: they won't let anybody and if it's raining like that,
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  Speaker 4: so or lightning, even though it was like not even rainy.
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  Speaker 4: It was the weirdest thing. But anyway, so we did
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  Speaker 4: a surprise show because I was like, I'm not going
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  Speaker 4: to be all dressed up to do to not do
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  Speaker 4: a show and not saying so we ended up going
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  Speaker 4: what was it called Whiskey River and I did a
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  Speaker 4: pop up show there for the fan. But no, I'm
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  Speaker 4: excited to redeem myself and get to do Riverfront stage
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  Speaker 4: this year. I've been wanting to and I'm super pumped
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  Speaker 4: to be able to play that stage.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, and this case, rain is a bad thing
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  Speaker 2: for Cfest, so we definitely want to see you at
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  Speaker 2: Riverfront and keep the rain away this year. I know.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think it's going to be a good
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  Speaker 3: I'm popped.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm looking forward to it, and I am just
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  Speaker 2: loving your new music that you have released since joining
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  Speaker 2: the Jonas Group. Entertainment team. Last year, You've released Heaven
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  Speaker 2: is a honky Ton, long lived country music fall together
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  Speaker 2: in a festive Christmas EP. You or released so much
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  Speaker 2: music last year at ATEN They are definitely jams. And
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  Speaker 2: how would you say your music has changed in these
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  Speaker 2: recent releases compared to your prior releases.
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  Speaker 4: I think this new music is definitely probably a little
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  Speaker 4: more rock and roll in a sense. Obviously, when I started,
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  Speaker 4: I was eighteen years old, and now I'm in my
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  Speaker 4: early thirties and uh, thirty one will be thirty two,
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  Speaker 4: and I mean, obviously I've matured, I've gone through some life.
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  Speaker 4: But I feel like the common thread between all my
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  Speaker 4: music is the storytelling and the fact that I am
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  Speaker 4: a country girl. I mean, I grew up in Texas,
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  Speaker 4: and I think with this project that I'm creating right now,
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  Speaker 4: I'm really kind of going back to those rootsy parts
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  Speaker 4: of myself that you know that grew up going to
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  Speaker 4: the Houston Livestock Show in Rodeo and grew up in
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  Speaker 4: a Texas girl and I, you know, moved to Nashville
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  Speaker 4: when I was eighteen, and I had so many influences
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  Speaker 4: here right when I moved here. But when I go
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  Speaker 4: back and listen to the songs I was writing when
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  Speaker 4: I was eighteen nineteen. They really have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: the same instrumentation as my project now. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's so funny because I feel like in life you
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  Speaker 4: just kind of always go right back to where you started,
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  Speaker 4: especially for me in music, and so this music is
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  Speaker 4: it's just a lot of heart, very country, but also
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  Speaker 4: really fun. And I never want to stop having phone
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  Speaker 4: when I'm creating and writing. And I've I've just loved
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  Speaker 4: living with this music and I'm really excited for the
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  Speaker 4: fans to hear the rest of it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we can't wait to hear a comedy songs too.
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  Speaker 2: And speaking of your music from ten years ago, your
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  Speaker 2: platinum single God Made Girls, it's still resonating with a
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  Speaker 2: new generation on TikTok and social media. What is it
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  Speaker 2: like seeing a new generation ten years later reacting with
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  Speaker 2: this song.
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  Speaker 4: It's you know, people with social media. I think there's
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  Speaker 4: like parts of it that are hard, but parts of
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  Speaker 4: it that are really cool. And I think the coolest
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  Speaker 4: part about TikTok and Instagram is that songs can truly
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  Speaker 4: live forever. And me and Jason al Dean were talking
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  Speaker 4: about this because I was on Jason's tour last year
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  Speaker 4: and he saw a lot of his older songs like
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  Speaker 4: The Truth and Amerla Sky, like they were all popping
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  Speaker 4: off on TikTok and Instagram reels.
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  Speaker 3: And it just makes it.
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  Speaker 4: One thing that is just so cool is when you
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  Speaker 4: make great music, it does live on forever. And I
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  Speaker 4: love seeing people continue to make videos to God Made
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  Speaker 4: Girls and Lonely Call and Boyfriend and people thinking that
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  Speaker 4: they're new songs, and it's I've you know, there's been
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  Speaker 4: artists that when I've gone through like TikTok or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: that I've discovered that have actually had a full career
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  Speaker 4: for the last ten years, and then you're you're getting
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  Speaker 4: to rediscover it based off of older music, and so
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  Speaker 4: it's it's always so sweet, and I love, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so proud of God Made Girls and Boyfriend and
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  Speaker 4: my first record that went number one, Like I've just
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  Speaker 4: that music will always have a special place in my heart,
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  Speaker 4: and it's so cool to see so many new people
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  Speaker 4: fall in love with it. There were so many fans
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  Speaker 4: that I met last year that thought that Boyfriend was
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  Speaker 4: my first single, or they're like.
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  Speaker 3: I love this song you just released Boyfriend.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, Queen, I wrote that eleven years ago,
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  Speaker 4: but thank you. But it's just it's really cool. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I it's still is very nostalgic when I hear it
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  Speaker 4: and I think about all those times and now that
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  Speaker 4: especially that I have a daughter to see her love
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  Speaker 4: love that music is fine as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And since you have became a mother, how
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  Speaker 2: has it been balancing family and music at the same time, I.
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  Speaker 4: Will say, I feel like it's just kind of what
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  Speaker 4: you do as a woman. I feel very inspired and
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  Speaker 4: empowered to be able to bring her out on the
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  Speaker 4: road with me and do what I love, and she
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  Speaker 4: makes when you have a baby, or when you have
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  Speaker 4: a you know, when you have a child, you when
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  Speaker 4: you see life through their eyes, it's just so special.
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  Speaker 4: And now I really truly understand, like why my parents
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  Speaker 4: get so emotional when I do when I would do
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  Speaker 4: anything in my career, because you see that little girl
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  Speaker 4: that you raised and seeing Daisy just flourish and to
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  Speaker 4: this little girl is just so sweet. Like her being
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  Speaker 4: on the road with me last year, I mean, she
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  Speaker 4: loved every person on the cruise.
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  Speaker 3: She would give her by fist pump. She was like
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  Speaker 3: the tour mascot.
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  Speaker 4: And even when we got downe with tour, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I helped her make little friendship bracelets and all those
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  Speaker 4: crew guys are still wearing their pink and purple bracelets
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  Speaker 4: that Daisy Ray made them.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just, you know, it's cool to know that.
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  Speaker 4: She we were creating her the memories that she's always
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  Speaker 4: gonna remember when she gets told her in her childhood.
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  Speaker 3: And I just want to be super special, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: I do it. I want to.
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  Speaker 4: Continue to show her that no matter what, you can
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  Speaker 4: always chase your dream and I and she's along that
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  Speaker 4: ride with me. I never want her to feel like
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  Speaker 4: she's fallen behind, but she can stand with me in
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  Speaker 4: my dream because she is a part of that dream
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  Speaker 4: because I've always had a dream of.
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  Speaker 3: Being a mother.
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  Speaker 4: So she is She is just super special. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: she's just great and very sassy. You know, we're working
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  Speaker 4: through this, but I want her to keep it because
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  Speaker 4: it'll it'll serve her well in life.
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  Speaker 3: You just got to kind of hone it in there.
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  Speaker 3: But she's been really great.
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  Speaker 2: Does she love watching you perform on stage?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, towards the end of like the beginning of the year,
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  Speaker 4: She like doesn't understand that mommy has to work, so
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  Speaker 4: she's like, why can't I be on stage?
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  Speaker 3: But and then like towards the middle of the tour,
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  Speaker 3: we were able to bring her out side stage and
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  Speaker 3: she could watch and not want to run out on stage.
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  Speaker 4: So she's starting to get a little older and understanding that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, she can't come out the whole time, but
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  Speaker 4: I would always let her come out and the last
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  Speaker 4: song if she wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so special, yea, yeah, it's sweet. Well, and
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  Speaker 2: your music and your household, it's also been shaped by
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  Speaker 2: the military, with both your husband and brother serving as
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  Speaker 2: green Berets in the US Army Special Forces. So how
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  Speaker 2: would you say you have found strength through music during
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  Speaker 2: times that your brother and husband have been deployed.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I, you know, first of all, the military community
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  Speaker 4: is so incredible, and I have so much admiration for
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  Speaker 4: the men and women that serve in our country. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, having to let the person that you love
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  Speaker 4: the most, you know, be gone for a significant amount
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  Speaker 4: of time.
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  Speaker 3: But my the biggest thing that I mean, I just
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  Speaker 3: my brother and my husband.
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  Speaker 4: The military is such a determination, like to get through
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  Speaker 4: the trainings that they have gone through and to come
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  Speaker 4: out on the other side and just I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just so beyond proud of them.
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  Speaker 3: And it's been.
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  Speaker 4: It's been super cool to be able to have the
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  Speaker 4: platform to be a military wife and to speak on
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  Speaker 4: the experience of missing the person you love as well
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  Speaker 4: as like just.
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  Speaker 3: Being being there for military wives.
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  Speaker 4: I've gotten to do some really cool USO stuff and
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  Speaker 4: some shows overseas.
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  Speaker 3: We went to Naples, Italy last year, and went to.
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  Speaker 4: Spain Road to Spain to a base out there, and
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  Speaker 4: have gone to Korea. We've gotten a lot of cool
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  Speaker 4: opportunities too to be able to be a voice for
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  Speaker 4: you know, the military families, and it's there's really just
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  Speaker 4: nothing like that community. And I think no matter if
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  Speaker 4: my brother was in the military and my husband was
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  Speaker 4: that they weren't. I just have such a respect for
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  Speaker 4: the military and so I just but having you know,
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  Speaker 4: that connection has always been super special. But yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: been We've gotten to do so many cool things and uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'm just having having him home and having
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  Speaker 4: my my brother. My brother's obviously been home for a while,
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  Speaker 4: he's been out of the military for a while, and
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  Speaker 4: so has my husband. It's it's an admiration. I just
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  Speaker 4: you know, I'll never get over but it's, uh, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's really cool and I and I will never turn
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  Speaker 4: down an opportunity to be able to be there for
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  Speaker 4: for military families.
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  Speaker 3: They're just they're super special.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's a very special purpose. And I always say,
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  Speaker 2: you never know where music will take you. And if
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  Speaker 2: you think, if someone thinks music doesn't serve a purpose,
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  Speaker 2: you know you can definitely, yes, sir, make it a
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  Speaker 2: purpose because the military does need music, and.
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  Speaker 4: You're bringing home to them. Like when I went to Korea,
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  Speaker 4: that was in twenty I think twenty seventeen or twenty
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  Speaker 4: sixty after after look Back, but you know, there was
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  Speaker 4: nineteen year olds that had just Korea was their first place.
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  Speaker 4: They literally some of them had never been on a
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  Speaker 4: plane before they joined the military and went straight to Korea.
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  Speaker 4: And it was like so cool to be able to
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  Speaker 4: bring a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of home to them.
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  Speaker 4: And it was cool because it was a show's me
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  Speaker 4: Train and Eli Youngband, and it was just to see
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  Speaker 4: all those young, you know, young faces just so happy
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  Speaker 4: because they got to feel like a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Of home was with them. Was so cool and it's
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  Speaker 3: just an experience I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, thank you for your family for their service
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  Speaker 2: and the work you've done with USO and the military.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any new music we can look forward from
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  Speaker 2: you this year?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, We're I've been writing so much. So it's so
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  Speaker 4: funny because I feel like with songwriters and artists, your
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  Speaker 4: last songs that you've written are your favorite songs. So
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  Speaker 4: I try not to get to like squarely about it
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  Speaker 4: and be like, oh my gosh and forget about other songs.
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  Speaker 4: But no, I'm very excited about upcoming releases.
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  Speaker 3: We're kind of working through that right now.
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  Speaker 4: I just I just love my team so much and
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  Speaker 4: I feel super blessed to be at Jonahs Group Entertainment.
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  Speaker 4: I've known Kevin for a few years now, I met
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  Speaker 4: him in twenty two and I just you know, this
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  Speaker 4: is it truly is a music family that we have created,
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  Speaker 4: my Jonas Group, and so I just know we're going
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  Speaker 4: to do some incredible things this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And we just said Kevin Jonas Senior on
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  Speaker 2: taking a walk in Nashville. So love having the Jonas
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  Speaker 2: Group on here, and it's just been fun Raylan to
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  Speaker 2: see your journey in the last ten years of thank
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  Speaker 2: your career. And you know, many first knew you when
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  Speaker 2: you were a contestant on the Voice on Blake Shelton's
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  Speaker 2: Team in twenty twelve. Looking back a decade ago, is
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  Speaker 2: there anything you wish your younger self would have known
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  Speaker 2: back then.
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  Speaker 4: I think I've always truly like enjoyed every moment, But
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  Speaker 4: I would just tell my younger self to just really
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  Speaker 4: take it all in because you don't realize that you're
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  Speaker 4: in a moment that one day will just be a memory.
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  Speaker 4: And there's so many moments that I feel like it
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  Speaker 4: flies by so fast and you and I know in
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  Speaker 4: deep down I enjoyed it all, but you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: just I wish like I feel like I've lived like
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  Speaker 4: like night and lives and so you know, it's just
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  Speaker 4: it really is crazy to look back, and especially like
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  Speaker 4: we were talking about earlier, like when I look at
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  Speaker 4: comments of on videos like Godmee Girls and Boyfriend and
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  Speaker 4: seeing fans be like, oh my gosh, this song was
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  Speaker 4: my favorite song when I was in fifth grade or
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  Speaker 4: fourth grade, or this reminded me of this, you know
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  Speaker 4: boy in my life. It's when you realize that the
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  Speaker 4: music that you were creating and the music that I made,
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  Speaker 4: you know, ten years ago, was somebody's memory for a
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  Speaker 4: moment in their life. It's just really cool. And there's
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  Speaker 4: all those memories I cherish.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think.
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  Speaker 4: About my first time on radio, tour, my first tour, uh,
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  Speaker 4: my first tour bus.
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  Speaker 3: All those experiences, my first record deal.
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  Speaker 4: But then I'm I'm I'm here today and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I'm just getting started at the same time. So
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  Speaker 4: it's all those memories I really do a hold very
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  Speaker 4: close to my chest. And I think if, like I said,
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  Speaker 4: if I could go back to, you know, the younger
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  Speaker 4: version of myself, I would just be like, just continue
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  Speaker 4: to take it all in because you're gonna be doing
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  Speaker 4: this for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that's great advice. And time does fly.
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  Speaker 2: But it's very cool to see how your music has
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  Speaker 2: been so timeless throughout the year.
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  Speaker 3: Keis, thank you. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and we're loving your new music and Raylan, my
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  Speaker 2: last question for you. We are on taking a walk
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  Speaker 2: in Nashville. So if you could take a walk with
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  Speaker 2: anyone in Nashville, living or dead, who would you take
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  Speaker 2: a walk with and were in Nashville. Would that walk be.
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  Speaker 4: If I could take a walk with somebody in Nashville,
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  Speaker 4: it would be Oh my gosh. I would probably take
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  Speaker 4: a walk with Dolly Parton. And I feel like she's
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  Speaker 4: just she has seen so much of the industry, but
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  Speaker 4: I feel like she I don't feel she is such
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  Speaker 4: a genuine person in side and out, and I think
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot there's a lot of reasons why I
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  Speaker 4: admire her, But I would just love to sit and
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  Speaker 4: actually talk to her. I've got to do a few
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  Speaker 4: interviews with her, but to actually just like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: be unfiltered, just me and her. I think that would
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  Speaker 4: be the coolest person to be able to learn from,
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  Speaker 4: is Dolly Parton?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, that would be so special. Do you know
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  Speaker 2: where in Nashville you would want to walk with her?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, oh my getting this, I'm trying to think.
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  Speaker 3: I'd probably like to go to like Radner. I love Radner.
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  Speaker 2: There you go, Yeah, that would be a great place.
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  Speaker 2: Could you imagine walking there with Dolly?
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  Speaker 3: That would be I cannot imagine that.
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  Speaker 2: A Well, Raylan, thank you so much for being Thank
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  Speaker 2: you take it for one at Nashville today. We are
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  Speaker 2: looking forward to your upcoming music this year, your upcoming
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: tour with Luke Bryan, and I'm sure we'll see your
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  Speaker 2: daughter Daisy on upcoming show with you too.
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  Speaker 3: She's a Kutie vite. Well, I appreciate you, Sarah, and
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  Speaker 3: you'll have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you too.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to Taking a Walk Nashville with Sarah Harrelson.
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