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Takin' A Walk Nashville: Exploring January's Key Moments in Music City’s Rich Music History · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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  Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, This is Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking
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  Speaker 1: a Walk in Nashville. I hope everyone is having a
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  Speaker 1: wonderful new year. I'm so happy to be back and
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  Speaker 1: joining me today is Buzz Night from Taking a Walk
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to go over some notable dates for
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  Speaker 1: the month of January and Nashville music history.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me today, Buzz.
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  Speaker 3: How are you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing great. It's nice to see you, Sarah.
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  Speaker 2: Miss you too.
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  Speaker 1: who are listening.
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  Speaker 2: To the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I just had a listener and Switzerland reach out. His
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  Speaker 1: name is Chris Riguez. He's been listening to Taking a
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  Speaker 1: Walk Nashville and he's going to be in Nashville next month,
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  Speaker 1: all the way from Switzerland with his band and another musician,
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  Speaker 1: Elaine Bug. They're going to be recording new music here
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  Speaker 1: in Nashville. So thank you Chris for tuning in.
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  Speaker 2: Buzz.
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  Speaker 1: I just love that our show is reaching people internationally.
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  Speaker 4: That is one of the fun parts of podcasting too.
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  Speaker 4: There are no geographic boundaries.
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  Speaker 2: Well, buzz, let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about some notable dates that happened
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  Speaker 1: in the month of January and Nashville music history. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people think at this time winter months that it slows
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  Speaker 1: down here in Nashville for musicians, but that's definitely not
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  Speaker 1: the case. There's always music happening, even in January at
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  Speaker 1: venues like Bluebird Cafe, the Opry and Listening Room.
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  Speaker 4: Nashville never sleeps.
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  Speaker 2: It never sleeps, No, it doesn't. I'm going to start
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  Speaker 2: off with a little bit of a somber.
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  Speaker 1: Fact that happened in January in history January first, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: fifty three. This date was the death of Hank Williams.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the road to a show and unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: he died in the back of his Cadillac at just
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine years old. His death definitely sent shockwaves through Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, this remains one of the genre's most
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  Speaker 1: signific turning points.
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  Speaker 4: And an iconic figure to this day is Hank Williams.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yes, yeah, Hank Williams. Hank Williams Junior. We love
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  Speaker 1: their music. Another fact that happened around this decade in
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  Speaker 1: nineteen fifty eight. In nineteen fifty nine, Johnny Cash was
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  Speaker 1: at San Quentin. Now on Year's Day, Johnny Cash performed
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  Speaker 1: his first ever prison shows, and while this did not
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  Speaker 1: occur in Nashville, these concerts did define his Man in
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  Speaker 1: Black persona. It influenced Nashville's Merle Haggard, who was an
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  Speaker 1: inmate in the audience at the time and credited the
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  Speaker 1: show with turning his life towards music. It's so amazing
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  Speaker 1: that Johnny Cash played for Merle Haggard.
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  Speaker 4: If you have not seen the documentary called a tricky Dick,
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  Speaker 4: as in Richard Nixon tricky Dick, Tricky Dick and the
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  Speaker 4: Man in Black. It is a fantastic documentary. Actually not
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  Speaker 4: the name drop, but Jelly Roll actually recommended that. To
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  Speaker 4: believe it or not, I hadn't seen it. I hadn't
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  Speaker 4: seen the documentary, but it's a great Johnny Cash take.
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  Speaker 4: If you haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't off to check it out, Especially if Jelly
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  Speaker 1: Roll recommended it, I'm gonna tak.
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  Speaker 2: His word for it.
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  Speaker 1: So another milestone on this month and music history. Grand
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  Speaker 1: Ole Opry had some of their own milestones on January
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  Speaker 1: twenty first, nineteen eighty nine. This is when Music Valley
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  Speaker 1: Drive came about this opry Land area.
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  Speaker 2: It saw a major expansion.
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  Speaker 1: In the late eighties, including their amusement park, which is
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  Speaker 1: now shut down.
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  Speaker 2: So you won't see that anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But if you go now, you'll see the Opry Mall
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  Speaker 1: oppry Land with the hotel.
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  Speaker 2: But during this month you might not.
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  Speaker 1: Be able to catch a show at the grandele Aupry
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  Speaker 1: because they do this thing in the winter months in
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  Speaker 1: January called Aubrey at the Rymand. This is where they
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  Speaker 1: go back and they move their Aubrey shows to the
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  Speaker 1: Ryman Auditorium. It's historic original home and that's where that
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  Speaker 1: takes place for the winter months.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're heading to Nashville and you're dying to
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  Speaker 4: see a show at the Rymand, don't wait until you
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  Speaker 4: get to Nashville to get your tickets. It's always a
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  Speaker 4: hot ticket at the Rymand, so get them in advance
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  Speaker 4: whichever show you're going to take in.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, and I love seeing old pictures of what Aubrey
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  Speaker 1: Lands looked like back in the eighties and nineties when
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  Speaker 1: it had the amusement park and maybe not all of
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  Speaker 1: the buildings built up around it. There's an Instagram page
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  Speaker 1: it's called Nashville muse History or Nashville Music History x
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  Speaker 1: and they always post older photos of Nashville, which is
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  Speaker 1: really fun to see what Broadway looks like back in
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  Speaker 1: the day Demumbrian in Midtown it looked so different, and
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  Speaker 1: you could actually park on Broadway back in.
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  Speaker 4: The day sometimes we learned for yesterday right.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely a great nostalgic page to look at.
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  Speaker 2: I want to talk.
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  Speaker 1: About some notable births and breakthroughs that happened during the
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  Speaker 1: month of January, So starting with January second, nineteen twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: Harold Bradley, he was born in Nashville. What we call
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  Speaker 1: a unicorn. We don't really see people born and raised
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  Speaker 1: in Nashville anymore. But he became the most recorded guitarist
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  Speaker 1: in history, and he was a member of the A Team.
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  Speaker 1: The A Team was a group of session musicians who
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  Speaker 1: created the Nashville sound. Garth Brooks worked heavily with the
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  Speaker 1: A Team as well.
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  Speaker 4: And I love going through the Country Music Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 4: just as I know you do, and seeing the way
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  Speaker 4: you know, someone like Harold Bradley is commemorated there. So
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  Speaker 4: generations move forward and they don't forget about these great
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  Speaker 4: legendary players from the past.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, such a great place to see some memorabilia and
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  Speaker 1: instruments that these musicians played. Another thing that happened during
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  Speaker 1: this month January nineteenth, nineteen forty six, Dolly Parton had
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  Speaker 1: her Grand Ol Opry guest start, so she didn't become
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  Speaker 1: a member until nineteen sixty nine in the Opry, but
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  Speaker 1: during the forties she was making her mark on the
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  Speaker 1: Nashville music scene, and then in the late sixties during January,
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  Speaker 1: this led to her legendary partnership with Porter Wagner, and
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  Speaker 1: she has such a great album She did with Porter
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  Speaker 1: Wagner as well.
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  Speaker 4: And Dolly to this day keeps creating, keeps building upon
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  Speaker 4: an amazing brand, and keeps doing good in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's so amazing. She just yeah, she just keeps
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  Speaker 1: doing it. Whether it's a rock album or doing something
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  Speaker 1: with Cracker Barrel.
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  Speaker 2: You know, she's done it.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, that's right. I love her.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. So other events that happened.
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  Speaker 1: A couple things happened on the last day of this
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  Speaker 1: month in January thirty first, nineteen seventy. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: this was a weak and country jail, so Tom t
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  Speaker 1: Hall's hit reached number one, proving that Nashville's story song
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  Speaker 1: tradition was a commercial powerhouse.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that stays true to this day.
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  Speaker 4: A week in Country Jail. What a title, right, I know, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: says it all.
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  Speaker 2: It says it all right there.
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  Speaker 1: And so we talked a lot about what happened in
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  Speaker 1: the past and nineteen forties, nineteen sixties, nineteen seventies, but
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  Speaker 1: more of a recent fact. On this month, January thirty first,
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten. You know, Taylor Swift was really making waves
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  Speaker 1: as a country artist here in Nashville at that time,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the day she had her Grammy sweep.
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  Speaker 1: She was just twenty years old. In Nashville based star
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  Speaker 1: she won four Grammys, including Album of the Year for
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  Speaker 1: her album Fearless. This was signaling signaling a massive shift
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  Speaker 1: in the industry center towards more younger and crossover artists,
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  Speaker 1: especially twenty tens. That's when more younger artist and pop
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  Speaker 1: was making its way into country music.
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  Speaker 4: So, Sarah, as a singer songwriter, what does Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 4: mean to you?
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people, regardless of age, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, in general, are just so inspired by Taylor Swift. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: she's a wonderful songwriter and artist, but I'm just always
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  Speaker 1: inspired by her business moves too. I think she's incredibly
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  Speaker 1: talented and smart, and she knows how to keep people
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  Speaker 1: on her feet with her new releases, always coming up
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  Speaker 1: with new ideas, marketing ideas, and just presenting original and
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  Speaker 1: fresh music all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Are you happy that the Chiefs are not marching to
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  Speaker 4: the Super Bowl or sad?
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  Speaker 3: I am very happy about that because I was very
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  Speaker 3: tired of seeing them in the Super But unfortunately the
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  Speaker 3: Ravens are not a part of the playoffs this year.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry to darken the conversation. I know you're a
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  Speaker 4: fan of the Ravens, so I apologize in advance.
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  Speaker 1: I am. Yeah, Well, you know, at least the Ravens
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  Speaker 1: have done better than the Titans here in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: There you go, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Well, those are my dates for Nashville music history, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of insight on what occurred here in the
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  Speaker 1: month of January in Nashville. But buzz people can look
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  Speaker 1: forward to the guest I'm going to have upcoming in
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  Speaker 1: the new year for taking a walk Nashville. So for February.
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  Speaker 1: On February twelfth, I've got Tony Mantur. He is a producer,
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  Speaker 1: musician and podcast host. You may have heard of his
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  Speaker 1: podcast Why Not Me and also podcast Almost Live, another
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  Speaker 1: music podcast. So that's a wonderful conversation. On February twenty
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  Speaker 1: six I have another wonderful guest, Mary go Shay. She
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  Speaker 1: is a hit songwriter in Nashville. So these are just
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  Speaker 1: some excellent conversations I had recently, and I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: for everyone to tune in and hear it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can't wait to hear both of them. Mary
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  Speaker 4: was on the Music Save Me podcast with Lynn Hoffman
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  Speaker 4: and Mary's done incredible work in the veterans community in
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  Speaker 4: terms of health and well being issues, in terms of
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  Speaker 4: how songwriting and music is so important there. So can't
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  Speaker 4: wait to hear both of those, including Mary, who is
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  Speaker 4: quite a character.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely people can look forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: More episodes coming up this month as well, one with
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  Speaker 1: Porter's Call and I'm doing a show with them on
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  Speaker 1: January twenty at a Prospect House. People can get their
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  Speaker 1: tickets on line, but tickets benefiting such a wonderful cause.
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  Speaker 2: Porter's Call helps.
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  Speaker 1: People artists and musicians and needs, so everyone can check
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  Speaker 1: out my social medias for more information on them and tickets.
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  Speaker 2: To that event.
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  Speaker 4: Awesome, that's so great, Thanks for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thanks buzz for being on today and I'm
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  Speaker 1: looking forward to what we have going on here next.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for everything, Sarah, and it's great to be with
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  Speaker 4: you on Taking a Walk Nashville.