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Sammy Brue For February 25th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Now here is this is exciting. Sammy brew is here
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  Speaker 1: with us in the studio along with Darren Piccoli from
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  Speaker 1: the State Room and the stateroom, presents in the Commonwealth
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  Speaker 1: Room and all all those things that he does. And Sammy,
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  Speaker 1: we met you. Do you have any Gina woman?
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  Speaker 2: I have it right here.
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  Speaker 3: I just reposted it.
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  Speaker 4: How many years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Twenty fifteen when you were thirteen.
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  Speaker 4: And it was up at Weaver State, Yes, and you came.
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  Speaker 6: You guys were snooping around with the I R S
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  Speaker 6: that you guys were like, he's so young.
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  Speaker 3: Do you pay taxes to the IRS?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, we just wanted to make sure everything
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  Speaker 1: was on the up and up. So Sam has continued
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  Speaker 1: his career as a musician in the I guess, I
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  Speaker 1: guess we call it a folk style of yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: yeah totally. And Sam, you lived in Nashville for a while,
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  Speaker 1: but you're back right living in Ogden. Yep, I'm back
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  Speaker 1: in o Town and he's Sam is doing a show
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  Speaker 1: this when is it during this Friday?
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  Speaker 2: This Friday at the State Room.
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  Speaker 1: At the State Room, tell us about this project that
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  Speaker 1: you you were good friends with justin towns Earl.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I actually met Justin at the State Room
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  Speaker 6: when I was eleven years old and I wasn't old
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  Speaker 6: enough to see the show, and so he.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, embry juice only for you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he came out and signed my guitar, and I
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  Speaker 6: think he just took to me just because ever since
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  Speaker 6: I started, I've been just trying to emulate and rip
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  Speaker 6: off and copy at Justin Town's earl.
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  Speaker 4: And you this is him, by the way, Justin Town's Earl.
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  Speaker 2: Stands.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got a project you're working on at your
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  Speaker 1: album called the Journals?
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  Speaker 4: What is that all about?
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  Speaker 6: H So pretty much we were talking to Justin's why
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  Speaker 6: Jen and I had written a song about Justin called
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  Speaker 6: for Justin about two years after he died, and just
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  Speaker 6: because when he died, I stopped playing folk music for
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  Speaker 6: a minute, you know, I wanted to scream and plug
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  Speaker 6: in an electric guitar and blow my ear drums and.
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  Speaker 3: You know. And so it took me about two years
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  Speaker 3: to write this song.
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  Speaker 6: And when I did, I sent it to Jen and
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  Speaker 6: I was like, hey, I want to put this out
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  Speaker 6: and like, have you on the Masters? And you know,
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  Speaker 6: I just want to help in any way I can.
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  Speaker 6: And she was like, well, I got a box full
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  Speaker 6: of his journals that I've been scrounging up and you
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  Speaker 6: should come take a look at him. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 6: this album consists of lyric sheets that I found, finished
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  Speaker 6: songs that didn't have any chords or recordings.
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  Speaker 4: Any journal entries in there as well.
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  Speaker 3: Journal entries.
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  Speaker 5: There's just you know what a gift that yeah liked.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's kind of been a surreal thing. You know,
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  Speaker 6: it's been getting trippy recently, like looking at these journals
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  Speaker 6: all day and then having these dreams about towns and
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  Speaker 6: waking up and becoming a better writer.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's like.
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  Speaker 6: A true like college experience, Like you can't even pay
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  Speaker 6: for that experience.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to raise some money on gofund me, and
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  Speaker 1: what will become of that money.
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  Speaker 3: So that's just.
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  Speaker 6: So we have the album recorded. We recorded it in
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  Speaker 6: muscle shoals with that money. We still have a little
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  Speaker 6: leftover that its just in a savings account. And you know,
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  Speaker 6: right now we're in talks with a couple of different
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  Speaker 6: labels and companies who want to help put it out
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  Speaker 6: and who have worked with Justin And you know, any
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  Speaker 6: money we raise right now, it's just going to go
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  Speaker 6: towards budget that a label has or something.
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  Speaker 1: And just now, what's the show at the State Room
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  Speaker 1: on Friday? What's happening with that, Darren? What's it? It's
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  Speaker 1: not just Sammy, right.
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  Speaker 7: No, Sammy's got a ton of guests for it at
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  Speaker 7: twenty or so or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a tribute show. We're gonna jam. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: you wounded up all these people with the help of
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of people.
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  Speaker 6: But we're gonna play a bunch of Justin Town's earl
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  Speaker 6: songs with bands and solo artists, and then I'm gonna
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  Speaker 6: play some songs from this new record in the middle, and.
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  Speaker 7: We're gonna raise We're gonna raise some funds for for
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  Speaker 7: Justin's family. We're gonna have some charity arms for uh.
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  Speaker 7: You know, every dollar of the ticket purchase is going
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  Speaker 7: to go to various local charities as well.
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  Speaker 4: So this will probably sell out at the State Rooms.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting close already out sell it.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want tickets to see this, it's this
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  Speaker 1: Friday at the State Room. Justin left behind Uh a.
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  Speaker 4: Wife and daughter? Is that right?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? And and where are they and where are they
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  Speaker 1: in Nashville?
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  Speaker 6: Or uh, they're they're.
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  Speaker 3: A stay a state away. I don't know if they
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  Speaker 3: want me to say yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, uh, this is Friday the Uh. This is
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  Speaker 1: twenty different performers, so.
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  Speaker 4: That's a lot. Everybody gets to do a half a song.
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  Speaker 7: It's a busy stage, but it works out. We've had
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  Speaker 7: a couple tributes in the past, and you know, the
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  Speaker 7: local community of musicians is pretty amazing, and you know
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  Speaker 7: when people get together for this type of thing, and
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  Speaker 7: you know, Samy's been such He's been such a tight
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  Speaker 7: woven piece of the fabric of local musicians, and I
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  Speaker 7: think a lot of us older folks are really excited
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  Speaker 7: to see him, you know, really maturing and becoming a
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  Speaker 7: force in music here. And it's a He's a special
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  Speaker 7: gift for Utah, So people should definitely come in.
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  Speaker 1: Jock now, sam Sammy Brew, you you have a guitar?
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  Speaker 1: Are you just carrying that so as a proper you
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  Speaker 1: plan on using it here?
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  Speaker 3: I always got it on me just in case.
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  Speaker 1: Another We're back with Sammy Brew and Darren from the
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  Speaker 1: State Room is here with us as well, and Sammy is.
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  Speaker 4: A fellow Ogden Nite. I was born and raised in Ogden,
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  Speaker 4: as well.
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  Speaker 1: And Sammy was mentored by Towns van zandt I'm a
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  Speaker 1: town's earl, Justin Justin town's earl and who passed away. Yep, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: accidental it' says drug overdose.
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  Speaker 4: At the he's still very young, thirty thirty eight, thirty eight.
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  Speaker 1: But Sammy, he took you under his wing kind of
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  Speaker 1: and and helped you along with your career, right.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, totally. The first kind of push he ever did
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  Speaker 6: to help me was he put me on the cover
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  Speaker 6: of one of his records.
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  Speaker 3: A single single.
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  Speaker 6: He was like, he was playing at the Gallivan Center
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  Speaker 6: and got me tickets and said he wanted to tell
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  Speaker 6: me something and and he was like, I want you
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  Speaker 6: to play little Justin in this photo. And because of that,
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  Speaker 6: New West Records heard of me in Nashville and I
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  Speaker 6: got a record deal that way. And and then when
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  Speaker 6: I got a record deal, he took me on tour
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  Speaker 6: and and you to open for him? Yeah, I got
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  Speaker 6: to open for him. I you know, I literally had
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  Speaker 6: a company invest in my music because of him. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's going to be a show this Friday night
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  Speaker 1: at the State Room, and it's twenty different musicians from
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  Speaker 1: are they all local folks or just yep, yeah, all
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  Speaker 1: local musicians. And it's a kind of a tribute to
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  Speaker 1: to Justin Town's earl. And Sam's done a record called
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  Speaker 1: The Journals, which is it hasn't been.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of in limbo right now. We're just we're
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  Speaker 6: finding the right partner to help us push it.
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  Speaker 4: Now you're gonna do a song for us? And what
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  Speaker 4: is the song?
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  Speaker 6: So this is it's called Lord. I'm ready now. You know,
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  Speaker 6: a lot of the Journals is his lyrics. But since
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  Speaker 6: I had him, I've always wanted to write with Justin,
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  Speaker 6: So I took it on to myself to write a
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  Speaker 6: couple of songs with with his lyrics.
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  Speaker 4: So this is some of his lyrics with with your
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  Speaker 4: own editions.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know, this is just kind of like the
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  Speaker 6: crowd stopper every time. This has been a song for
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  Speaker 6: a year and a half and I'm still not sick
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  Speaker 6: of it.
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  Speaker 8: I've traveled down a thousand lonesome roads. I've been lost
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  Speaker 8: and found, and that's all that you've been to, Old Lord.
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  Speaker 3: I'm ready, now, ready, now, Lord.
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  Speaker 8: Come take me, now take me now. I've flown in
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  Speaker 8: planes and I've traveled across the sea falling in love.
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  Speaker 3: You've taken people close to me.
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  Speaker 8: Lord, I'm ready, now ready, Now.
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  Speaker 3: Lord can take me, Now.
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  Speaker 8: Take me now. I've talked to God, I said, sometimes
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  Speaker 8: I regret, but I beat the odds. This guitars all
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  Speaker 8: I got left.
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  Speaker 3: Lord, I'm ready, now ready, now.
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  Speaker 8: Lord, come take me, Now take me now. I've sing
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  Speaker 8: some songs for the rich and poor like I've opened
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  Speaker 8: up some hearts and I've opened up some eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Lord.
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  Speaker 8: I'm ready, now ready, Now Lord can take me, Now
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  Speaker 8: take me now. I've made mistakes and I've made my mins.
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  Speaker 8: I've built a family and I've lost a lot of friends. Lord,
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  Speaker 8: I'm ready, now ready, Now Lord can take me, Now
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  Speaker 8: take me now, Lord, I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Ready, now ready.
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  Speaker 8: Now Lord can take me. Now take me now.
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  Speaker 4: A mighty fine good time for another one. One I
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  Speaker 4: wish we had.
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  Speaker 5: No No, you'll have to go buy tickets and see
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  Speaker 5: the rest of the show Friday.
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  Speaker 4: It's just a small taste.
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  Speaker 1: You can just go to the Stateroom Presents dot com
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  Speaker 1: tickets for the show. It's Friday night, almost sold out now.
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  Speaker 7: Yep, I say move on that. The Stateroom dot Com.
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  Speaker 7: It's all general admission part of the proceeds go to
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  Speaker 7: various charities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Sammy, it says, we'll make sure that all the
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  Speaker 1: profit from his album goes directly to Jen and Eda,
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  Speaker 1: Justin's wife and daughter.
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  Speaker 4: Nice to see you again, Sam.
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  Speaker 9: I mean good to see what because Gina showed us
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  Speaker 9: this picture and you were thirteen, that's when we first
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  Speaker 9: met you, back when you were cute. And then I
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  Speaker 9: hear the stories about the things that you're doing, and
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  Speaker 9: I think about that thirteen year old kid, and I
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  Speaker 9: was like, just like, you guys, help the way.
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  Speaker 4: Well, it was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when we met you that day at an
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  Speaker 1: then you played a song and I just went.
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  Speaker 4: Oh what you floored the entire.
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  Speaker 3: The entire room was just like with their mouths hope.
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  Speaker 4: But just like what this is coming out.
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  Speaker 2: Of this special talent.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's you know, that's what Justin saw and
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  Speaker 7: it's I think it's really great that you're you're continuing
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  Speaker 7: his legacy.
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  Speaker 4: Here's a couple of quick texts.
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  Speaker 5: Quinn in Sunset says, this song has me staying in
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  Speaker 5: the car instead of going inside, and there may or
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  Speaker 5: may not be a little tear in my eye. Somebody
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  Speaker 5: else SA's beautiful song.
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  Speaker 3: Brought tears to my eyes.
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  Speaker 4: So now we just have to wait for the album
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  Speaker 4: to come out to own this song.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, come to a live show. I'm always I'm always
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  Speaker 3: you playing Ogden a lot, playing Ogden a lot.
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  Speaker 6: I've been booking shows outside of Utah a lot. But
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  Speaker 6: I'm if you see me live, I'm playing these justin songs.
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  Speaker 4: So really good stuff, really good.
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  Speaker 9: So once again, Mark, can we see the show and tickets.
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  Speaker 7: The Stateroom this Friday night. It's downtown Salt Lake City.
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  Speaker 7: Go to the Stateroom dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Simple as that. Darren Cooley, thank you, Sammy Bruce, nice
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  Speaker 1: to see you again.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks to you guys.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you both. All right,