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We talk to Anne Wilson about her new single, "God Story," a new album, touring with Morgan Wallen and more.
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hey guys it's Gail with Everything Nash
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here with Annne Wilson so good to see
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you you too uh we have lots of things to
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talk about and I haven't talked to you
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in a while so I woke up today and I was
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so excited i was like it's Annne Wilson
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day a that's so sweet i'm so excited to
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talk to you um let's talk about God's
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story what a fun song give me the story
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behind it yeah i um wrote it a few
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months ago i was on a tour called Winter
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Jam and I' been on that tour for a while
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and was really reflecting on the last
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like eight years of my life as a whole
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um the last four being in music and then
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back to when my brother passed 8 years
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ago and really just reflecting on like
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the story that God has written in my
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life um I think that there's something
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really special about getting on the
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other side of pain and being able to
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look back and see like God used it for
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my good and for the greater good of the
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kingdom and so um yeah this song came
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about and then it was felt like an
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invitation almost to people listening of
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like kind of letting everyone have this
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moment to look at their own life and to
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see how God is working in their life and
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their and the story that he's writing in
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their life so um I'm so excited about it
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and um I think it's it's already been
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connecting with people and people have
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been sending me their God stories and
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sharing how God has been moving in their
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life so I'm excited and this is from an
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upcoming album yes you tell yes I'm so
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excited i can't share much yet but uh we
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have a new album coming out and um just
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a lot of exciting stuff i've been
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working the last year writing these
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songs and I'm so passionate about them
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so excited about them and uh just feels
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like we're really ready for this new
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chapter of music okay so I feel like
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Rebel was so incredibly wellreceived can
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we just like talk about that chapter for
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a minute because it didn't launch you
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but it definitely propelled you in a
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place that you hadn't been in your
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career before yeah definitely it was the
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It was my first country album titled you
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know country um and it was it was a
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really fun album for me it was 16 songs
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and I got to really dive in and like
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express who I am creatively and that was
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a lot more country than the last album
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My Jesus um but it did it it gave me
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some incredible opportunities and really
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was the first introduction for me on the
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country side of things um so I got to
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play a lot of country festivals and open
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for some country artists and um it was
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really cool to have that experience and
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just to get to reach people outside of
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the Christian music industry and to to
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reach people on another genre so it was
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really special and I think it um really
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changed kind of things for me so now
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this new album that we're putting out
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has kind of continued on in that same
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path of authentically you know having my
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faith at the core of what I do but also
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the sound of country and you also um got
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to sing with Jelly Roll last year yes I
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know i was so excited it was like the
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craziest day yeah that was phenomenal
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what I love about you I listened to
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Rebel multiple times um I know that you
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were going to be under the microscope
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because you're a Christian artist doing
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country album but you didn't water it
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down at all my friend like you are
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hardcore this is still what I believe
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can you talk about that decision yeah I
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think for me it was um it was really
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realizing like this is my chance to be
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bold in my faith like it never happened
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before and so when I was writing these
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songs it was just like I'm not going to
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back down to please people on the
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countryside like I'm not going to
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sacrifice my faith to fit in and then
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I'm not going to sacrifice the sound of
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country to fit in on Christian radio a
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lot of the times Christian radio gives
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push back for country sounding music
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which is crazy and so I was like you
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know kind of wrestling with that and I
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came to realize like I have to be
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authentically who I am i can't water
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down my faith and I can't water down my
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love for country and so it was a it was
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an interesting season but it also came
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out like right before the kind of whole
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political stuff last year and was very
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interesting um kind of I think for our
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country like a time where a lot of
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people were standing for what they
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believed in no matter which side they
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were on they were choosing to stand for
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the things that meant a lot to them and
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for me that was that was rebel it was
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like I'm a proud believer of Jesus i'm a
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proud uh supporter of the gospel i want
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to share it with people and it really
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became like my whole thing was all about
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Jesus and spreading the gospel and it
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was really cool to see how God ended up
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using that um spreading the gospel you
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are heading out on tour i might have
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shrieked a little bit with Morgan Wallen
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i know how are we feeling about this oh
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Lord I don't even know i'm going to
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probably have a full-blown freakout
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attack the day I get there um but I'm
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very grateful and it's something that I
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never even thought was possible i've I'm
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literally like obsessed with his music
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anyone in my life that knows me knows
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that he's all I listen to i literally
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mean all I listen to like all the time
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and so when I found out that I was
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getting to go on tour with him I was
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just blown away and um he's actually
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been a sweet supporter of mine and what
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I do we're very different artists we
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have very different musical like
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platforms and the kind of things we
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write about um but he's been really
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encouraging and and supportive so I
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can't wait i just I'm just praying that
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I get have the strength to not pass out
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on stage um but I'm really excited and
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it's going to be a great time so how do
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you approach a Morgan Walling concert as
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a Christian artist who is releasing a
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positive country album
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honestly I just am going to go be myself
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because that's all I can be and for me
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it looks like the same exact set I would
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play at a Christian festival um I'm just
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going to play my music you know and
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share the gospel and be me and uh I
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think it's interesting because like on
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one of the nights it's me Miranda and
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Morgan and the other night it's me
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Brooks and Dun and Morgan and both
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Miranda Brooks and Dun have had those
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songs that are faith-based you know so I
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think it's like God is in country music
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so I don't think it's going to be
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anything that's out of the ordinary for
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these people at the concert but it will
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be like a full gospel presentation um
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which I'm I'm just so excited to get
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that opportunity because even if one
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person in the crowd comes to know Christ
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that day that's that's worth all of it
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for me and people can say what Wallen
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what they want about Wallen's lifestyle
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but he is a professing Christian yes he
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is yeah take it and he uh he is such an
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inc like just he's a talent you know
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that we will talk about for many many
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many years to come so right and I also
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think that Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll
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have done a lot to perpetuate Christian
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music in the country genre also
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with Hardford Hallelu which is so great
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okay i want to read something to you
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that was in your press release over the
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last couple years God has done some
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incredible healing work can we talk
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about that for a minute yeah you know I
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think a lot of what I talk about with my
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brother is uh over the last couple years
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I feel like he's gotten me over this
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kind of like I guess hump of like the
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grief like I feel like I'm on the other
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side of it now of healing um where I
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feel like I've fully been able to I now
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can look back on my brother and not feel
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so much heartache and devastation but
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rather joy when I think about him um
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he's you know I think about him every
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day and obviously there's days I wake up
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still sad and heartbroken i always will
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be but I really feel like God has healed
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me into a place of of joy i love that
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okay what can I know you can't tell me a
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lot but what can we say about the next
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album can we talk about when it might
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come out how many songs might be on it
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uh songs don't know yet we're still kind
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of picking we're in the selection like
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part of the album process like picking
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the next songs we have the majority of
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them picked out but maybe a couple are
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still going to be added uh it won't be
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as many songs as Rebel i can say that um
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it was kind of one of those albums that
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we were like we we want to get this out
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soon so it's a it's a few less songs
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than 16 um and this album is a really I
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think it's an interesting kind of coming
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of age record very different than
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anything I've done before um a lot of
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the songs are really kind of reflecting
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on this year so I turned 23 in February
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and I turned the age that my brother was
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when he passed away and it was a very
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weird like milestone in the grief
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journey of like being I guess coming to
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this realization I was going to live
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longer than my brother got to it was a
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very weird uh part of my grief and so um
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this whole like last six months has been
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writing kind of about that and so
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there's a lot of songs that talk about
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some of those deep moments of heartbreak
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and pain of that and then there's also
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songs that have a lot of joy and kind of
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this grownup sense of this is the
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23-year-old Ann now um so it has a lot
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of that coming of age I think is the way
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I describe it of like this kind of new
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me always the same like core parts of me
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but a a little bit of a different sound
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as well to some of the production so
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okay well we'll have to talk when you
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can finally talk about it yep absolutely
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good to see you my friend thank you Ann
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yes absolutely
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