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Emerging Artists Nashville: Diamond Dixie Discusses Their CMA Fest Experience and Bond as Sisters · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Taking a Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: Hey listeners, it's Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a
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  Speaker 2: Walk Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: This past June, I got to go to CMA Fest
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  Speaker 2: and sit down with Diamond Dixie, and we are bringing
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  Speaker 2: you that conversation today. Diamond Dixie is a Nashville based
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  Speaker 2: country duo made up of sisters Gabriella and Bianca, known
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  Speaker 2: for their harmonies, commanding live energy and modern country sound.
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  Speaker 2: Champions of Old Red's nationwide Battle of the Bands, the
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  Speaker 2: duo has opened for Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker, Little Texas,
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  Speaker 2: Neil McCoy. They've performed VIP sets for Miranda Lambert, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: Georgia Line. The list goes on, and with a fan
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  Speaker 2: base of over one million followers across social platforms, Diamond
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  Speaker 2: Dixie has built both a powerful live following and massive
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  Speaker 2: digital presence. These girls are originally from Orlando, Florida, and
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  Speaker 2: today we're talking about their new singles this year, such
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  Speaker 2: as Made a Liar. I hope you will listen to
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  Speaker 2: their music. Sit Down with us as we talk to
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  Speaker 2: Diamond Dixie today. Welcome to Taking a Walk Nashville with
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  Speaker 2: your hosts, singer songwriter Sarah Harrelson. Hello, it's Sarah Harrelson,
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  Speaker 2: your host of the Taking a Walk Nashville podcast, and
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  Speaker 2: today we are here in Fanfair at CMA Fest. I'm
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  Speaker 2: here with Gabriella and Bianca from Diamond Dixie.
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  Speaker 3: How are you so good? How are you okay? Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for being here.
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  Speaker 2: So you just did a meet and greet at Fanfair
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  Speaker 2: and you're just telling me you did a festival at
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  Speaker 2: Carolina Country FESTI bef we're coming here right did?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: It was so hectic but so much fun and we
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  Speaker 4: got to meet so many new fans.
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  Speaker 3: So it was a good weekend. Oh yeah, so cool.
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  Speaker 3: And this isn't your first CMA fest, is it. No,
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  Speaker 3: it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've kind of done a few things like here
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  Speaker 1: and there in previous years and everything, but yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: year was kind of hectic with the Carolina Country Music Fest,
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  Speaker 1: so we were out of town for a few days
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  Speaker 1: during the CMA Fest. So today is kind of our
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  Speaker 1: whole shebang. Yeah, doing all the things around FANFAREX, doing meet.
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  Speaker 3: And greets and all that stuff. So it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of fun. Yeah, I love it. Last day of CMA Fest.
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  Speaker 2: You ladies are originally from Orlando, Florida, So tell me
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  Speaker 2: how you made the journey from Orlando to.
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  Speaker 3: Here in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: I hear your father was always playing music grew up
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  Speaker 2: growing up, so it sounds like he was a big
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  Speaker 2: influence of yours.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, absolutely. Yeah, it's been a long musical journey.
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  Speaker 4: It kind of started with me. I'm the older one.
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  Speaker 3: I was a huge, like.
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  Speaker 4: Hannah Montana fan, Taylor Snow fan when they both started
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  Speaker 4: like coming on the scene, and so I signed up
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  Speaker 4: for my school's talent show when I was in fourth grade,
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  Speaker 4: and I was like, I'm gonna go sing and play guitar,
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  Speaker 4: and my dad played with me, and I remember when
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  Speaker 4: I got off stage, I was like, that was so cool.
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  Speaker 4: I want to do that forever. And then Biaka, being
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  Speaker 4: the younger sister, She's like, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds like fun. I'm gonna do it, Tara.
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  Speaker 4: So we've honestly been doing it ever since. And we
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  Speaker 4: finally made our first trip to Nashville in like twenty fifteen,
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  Speaker 4: so a little over like ten years ago. And ever
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  Speaker 4: since then, we've been commuting back and forth from Orlando
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  Speaker 4: to Nashville to write, record, play some shows, and then
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  Speaker 4: we finally made the like move up here.
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  Speaker 3: In let me think of one.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, we've been here for a little over four
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  Speaker 4: and a half years.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was telling you ladies earlier, I saw you guys
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  Speaker 2: playing at the coffee weall house here in Nashville years ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and now you guys are doing so much on the road.
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  Speaker 2: You've opened for Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker performed VIP sets
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  Speaker 2: for Miranda Lambert Florida, Georgia line.
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  Speaker 3: What's been your favorite road moment so far? Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: that's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: Favorite road moment honestly, every chance that we have a
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  Speaker 4: great band, Like they're just they're eat musicians first of all,
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  Speaker 4: but they're also like just such fun people, Like there's
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  Speaker 4: never a dull moment. So any chance that we get
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  Speaker 4: like with them, which is like all the time. They're
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  Speaker 4: really like not bad people to road trip with, which
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  Speaker 4: we're super blessed about. So we're always like cracking jokes
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  Speaker 4: and having fun with them, So it's always a.
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  Speaker 2: Good time, awesome you have more shows coming up this summer.
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  Speaker 3: Where are you looking forward to going.
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  Speaker 1: We're actually playing in Jefferson, Ohio, which it's it's really
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  Speaker 1: crazy like doing music and everything because you see like
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  Speaker 1: complete new cities you've never thought you would like go
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  Speaker 1: to before, and you find out about cities that you've
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  Speaker 1: never even heard of before too, So it's like we
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  Speaker 1: I think the first time we.
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  Speaker 3: Played in Ohio was last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, played in Plaine City, So we're playing Plain City
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  Speaker 1: again this year. Yeah, and then we're playing in Jefferson, Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that's probably the most north we've ever played.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think, I think so, Yeah, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: So that'd be a fun little event that we're playing.
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  Speaker 1: So that'll be later in July.
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  Speaker 2: So and where can where can people go to find
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  Speaker 2: your upcoming shows?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can go to Diamond Dixie dot com. We've
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  Speaker 1: got all of our shows on there. We always post
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  Speaker 1: about all of our stuff on socials too, so Facebook, Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Amazing you ladies have dropped a couple new singles this year.
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  Speaker 2: You have an upcoming EP this August called time While Wasted.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about the theme of that EP and how
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  Speaker 2: it came about writing the songs for that EP.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So that EP is kind of like a compilation
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  Speaker 1: of our lived experiences in the past few years and everything,
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  Speaker 1: and each song kind of kind of tells that story
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. And I think the overall theme of
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  Speaker 1: that album is kind of I guess EP not album.
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  Speaker 1: The overall theme of that EP is more of just like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, time' is gonna go on no matter what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, so you might as well spend it doing
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  Speaker 1: what you love. You know.
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  Speaker 3: Some of those songs in.
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  Speaker 1: Our EP kind of highlights those moments where you're in
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  Speaker 1: a relationship and you might think to yourself, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: might not be for me, so I kind of need
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  Speaker 1: to get out of this because you know, you want
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  Speaker 1: to spend your time well, So kind of that's the
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  Speaker 1: theme of time, Yeah Wasted.
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  Speaker 4: Anything more you want to add, Well, I was gonna say, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it does light some like breakup moments, and I feel
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  Speaker 4: like even though you go through some of these bad moments,
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  Speaker 4: it kind of like builds you and your characters. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: time all wasted.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, time well wasted. On the road together and as sisters,
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  Speaker 2: you're always writing songs together, performing together, is it like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, being together twenty four to seven. Do you
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  Speaker 2: guys have your own individual hobbies you like to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we definitely have. It's crazy because it's like we
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  Speaker 1: are together twenty four seven. Yeah, and ironically enough, we
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  Speaker 1: like don't fight.
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  Speaker 3: We're just we're best friend.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like we hang out all the time. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you talk about your hobbies.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still honestly, this sounds weird. I'm still kind of
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  Speaker 4: finding some of my hobbies. But recently I've kind of
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  Speaker 4: gotten into skateboarding, which sounds a little.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, honestly because like growing up in Florida, we used
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  Speaker 4: to surf all the time, and now that we live
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  Speaker 4: in Tennessee, it's like, well there's no oceans around, so
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  Speaker 4: like what am I gonna do? So got into skateboarding,
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  Speaker 4: but that's kind of a hobby I stole from you.
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  Speaker 4: But I really enjoy like working out, going to the gym.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it betters my mind and like it's
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  Speaker 4: me like set up for the day.
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  Speaker 1: You're definitely a gym rat.
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  Speaker 4: I'm the gym rat. Bianca has very different hobbies than Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I like to make my own sourdough, bread. I just
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  Speaker 1: bought a nineteen seventy seven Ford truck in like November,
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  Speaker 1: so I like to work on that. I like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: anything out.
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  Speaker 3: Doorsy, just love it.
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  Speaker 1: So kind of a little bit of my hobbies.
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  Speaker 3: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: And that truck you were talking about, is that the
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  Speaker 2: mint green truck that was in one of your recent
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  Speaker 2: music videos.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the maid a Liar music video. Decided to
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  Speaker 1: feature it a little bit because I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I have it, might as well.
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  Speaker 3: Be in a video, you know, so cool. I love it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's such a pretty truck. That's gotta be fun working
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  Speaker 3: on it. Oh, yeah, it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: Did you already have like mechanics skills or how did
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  Speaker 2: you go about like learning how to restore us?
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  Speaker 1: So, like it was already pretty well kept up from
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  Speaker 1: the previous owner, so I didn't have to do like
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  Speaker 1: too much stuff to it. But growing up, like my
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  Speaker 1: dad and I would kind of work on cars here
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  Speaker 1: and there and not being like too crazy, but kind
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  Speaker 1: of learned like the basics. So even with this truck,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still like having to like ask friends or friends
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  Speaker 1: of friends like, hey, like do you know a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about this? Because like I'm kind of confused, but like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, learning here and there and YouTube always helps,
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  Speaker 1: so yeah, just learning things.
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  Speaker 3: I love that. That's so fun.
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  Speaker 2: So my last question for you ladies, we're here at
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  Speaker 2: CMA Fest. Do you both have a favorite CMA Fest
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  Speaker 2: moment as an artist or a fan.
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  Speaker 4: So we kind of did like the fan thing yesterday
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  Speaker 4: and we saw Caitlin Buttz and oh my gosh, she
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  Speaker 4: was amazing, Like Bianca and I were literally like tearing
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  Speaker 4: up her, like she's so good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and like we've heard a little bit of her
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  Speaker 1: music beforehand, but we're like, you know, let's go see her.
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  Speaker 1: We know we like a few of her songs. And
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  Speaker 1: then her live performance like was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we just became like huge fans fans back of
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  Speaker 4: that one.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, she's like making her like CMA fst debut
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  Speaker 2: this year and I love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I love it so much. Well, it's so fun
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  Speaker 3: seeing you both.
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  Speaker 2: Gabriella and Bianca from Diamond Dixie, thank you so much
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  Speaker 2: for being on Taking a Walk Nashville today.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks for having.
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