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Carly Pearce speaks to Everything Nash about her new album, 'Honest Woman,' her "If I Don't Leave I'm Gonna Stay" single with Riley Green, finding her voice as an artist, and more.
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Hey guys, it's Gail with Everything
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Nash. Back again with Kari Pierce. I
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love talking to you. A likewise. So much
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to talk about. Um, Honest Woman coming
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out. Girl, I am so excited for you. Tell
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me all the things.
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This album, I've been working on it for
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almost two years. And for me, I got to a
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place where
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I needed to find the little girl again
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that really wanted to sing country music
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in the first place. And the high highs
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and the low lows of success can be
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lonely and um hard. And what this album
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has done for me is it
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really allowed me to return and find her
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again and return to form using a
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producer who really understands my
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bluegrass and traditional country roots.
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um my first time working with him, then
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West uh on this side of things. And just
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I think as a female in this business or
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in any kind of entertainment field or
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maybe just in general, you can um be
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told to hide
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your age or your life experience or
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you're too much or all these different
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things. And I think for me, I just
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really wanted to show people more of me,
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more of my vulnerability, more of the
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things that matter to me. and also say,
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you know what, I'm 36 and I'm proud of
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it and I'm going to say it and the only
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things that I've learned have come from
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life experience that come with age. So,
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I think age is an asset, girl. I love
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that. And you've always been I was
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thinking about this when I was getting
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ready today. You've always been that
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voice. You didn't succumb to the women
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can't be played in country music. You
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just stayed in your lane and look at you
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now.
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>> Yeah. Uh you you touched on it earlier,
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bluegrass. So my husband loves that, by
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the way. He's very excited. Um that's
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not something people are doing a lot of
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right now. So talk about your decision
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to do that.
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>> I I've always loved bluegrass. It's
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always been something that I I wanted to
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find the right time. Um I've wanted to
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do a bluegrass record, which I think I
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will at some point, but I got my start
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singing bluegrass. Um when I was 11, I I
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was in a bluegrass band. Um, a lot of
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the bluegrass artists would tell you, I
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used to go to bluegrass festivals when I
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was a kid. They all know me that way.
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Um, so it's always been a really big
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part of my
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love of music, but this was the right
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moment to kind of show that part of me.
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Um, I've obviously on award shows
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collaborated with Ricky Skaggs and Sonia
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Isaacs on the CMA special. I
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collaborated with Ricky and Molly
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Tuttle. And on this album, Molly
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Tuttle's been a dear friend of mine over
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the last few years. and she is a force
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and one of the most incredible musicians
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I've ever heard. And Dan Taminsky I my
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>> some of my biggest memories as a kid
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were going to see Allison Krauss in
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Union Station perform and um he and I
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connected. He's my favorite male voice
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and we connected before I started making
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this record and he was like I'd love to
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figure out a way for us to collaborate
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and I was like cool. I'm going to have
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you sing on it, play on it, write with
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me. Um, I'm going to use this is kind of
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like the Carly Pearson, Dan Haminsky
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record. Um, but yeah, just honoring that
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side of me that's such a big part of me
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that a lot of people don't realize.
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>> Uh, let's talk about your collaborations
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because you have two with Dan. You also
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have um Riley Green. Who's that?
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>> Your duet with him when you sang it live
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at CMA Fest was next level amazing.
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>> Thank you.
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>> Um, your friendship with him. talk about
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that a little bit.
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>> I've known Riley for a long time. We
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were label mates. Um, and he's always
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been the quiet, kind, respectful person
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that championed me. Um, was always I was
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always a fan. Um, my parents live in
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Alabama, so I think he's always just
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been, you know, he asked me how my
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family is and things like that. Um but
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honestly something I want to say about
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him is um
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he in more ways than people see has
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continued to pay it forward for me now
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that he is sitting where he is. And um
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that is that means a lot to me. Um and
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yeah I I think he's obviously very
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attractive but he's a great person that
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has I feel like his talent is really
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just remarkable. what he's been able to
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do. Um, I went to see him in Nashville
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and to see somebody with an acoustic
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guitar sing a song they wrote by
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themselves to an arena full of people
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sold out singing every word. That's
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really hard to do.
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>> Yeah, he's pretty remarkable. Um, that
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video you did. So, I watched the video
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and I was like, "Girl, she must really
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like Jordan."
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>> I LITERALLY thought that you said you
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were laughing in the video. That is not
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a funny video. If y'all haven't seen it,
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that video shoot, talk about that. Yeah.
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I mean, obviously Riley and I know each
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other, but we don't do that, you know,
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with each other. Um, and in the first 30
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minutes, the scene where we're singing
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this close together was how we started
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it. And I think we've both said
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separately and together that we wanted
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to die in the first 30 minutes because
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it was so awkward. But somewhere in
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there, we both went for it. And then I'm
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like throwing my leg up on him. I mean,
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it's acting. And that's the thing, like
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as artists, you want to push the
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boundaries and you want to tell stories.
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And for me, I loved music videos in the
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90s. And I think there's like a lost art
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to um the artists living out the songs
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in the music videos. And so it was my
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idea cuz why wouldn't I want to do that?
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You know what I mean? Um and I knew if
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he would go there with me, it would be
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something that we haven't seen in a long
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time. Well, he did do the worst way
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video, so I mean, you knew that.
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>> But not with another artist.
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>> That is true. So,
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>> you know what I mean?
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>> When Jordan saw it.
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>> Yeah,
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>> that was okay.
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>> No.
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>> No, it wasn't. But you know what? We're
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still here.
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>> We're still here and we're still happy.
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Moving on.
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>> What guy would be okay with that? You
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know,
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>> I was like,
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>> yeah, it was it was tough there for a
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second, but he's fine. He's he's he's
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great now.
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>> He's a good guy.
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>> Yeah.
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>> This is literally what I wrote down on
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my notes. Settledness.
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>> Oh, I like that. There is a the first
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time I spoke to you was before your
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debut single came out.
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>> Um I had been set up. You had done like
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this press day or something.
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>> So we've talked a lot. There is a
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settledness in you now that I have not
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seen in you before.
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>> Oh,
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that's really nice. I feel like I have
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one. Now by no means am I on any given
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day like not, you know, struggling with
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this thing or this thing, but I think I
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just really know who I am.
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And um that feels really good. I think I
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feel happy. Um and I mean this so
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kindly, but I have things to live for
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outside of this and um I haven't in the
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past and that's really nice. It makes me
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a better artist to have a life separate
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from Carly Pierce.
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>> Oh, I love that. You are also such a
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champion for helping other artists.
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You're bringing a new artist out with
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you on tour. Why is that so important to
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you? Because I
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I always talk about her. Kelsey,
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when I
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literally, it was like her first single.
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She met me in a girl's support group. I
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was mad at her because she had a record
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deal and she was younger than me. Um,
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we bonded in those moments. She took me
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out on the road when I would pull up in
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a 12 passenger van with my U-Haul
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attached. Um, she let me sleep on her
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bus. She gave me a lot of opportunities.
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Lucy Hail is another artist who
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obviously was a big actress, but um, had
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a country career for a second and gave
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me opportunities that she didn't need
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to. Um, she didn't have to do that. And
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I
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want to be that. Sitting in this seat,
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if I'm honest, this business, it can
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make you feel great one day and horrible
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the next. Something that I can control
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is how I treat other people. Um, Hillary
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Scott is another person. I just had
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dinner with her two nights ago and we
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were chatting about those are the things
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that really matter. Um, so I have such a
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heart for
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especially the young women that are
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coming up behind me and want to be a a
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voice for them and a sounding board and
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um a friend or a big sister.
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>> Also, can we just say that Hillary Scott
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might be one of the best humans that
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ever exist?
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>> No, I think she might I think she is
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>> like
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>> she's like anointed.
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>> Yeah. Like her crown's going to be
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bigger in heaven.
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>> Definitely about bigger than mine.
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>> You are such a force when you perform.
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I've never asked you this before. Do you
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ever get nervous?
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>> Um,
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yes.
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I get nervous at odd things though. I
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get more nervous
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in a small room.
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>> Um, I get nervous,
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you know, if I'm singing on television.
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That's a little more nerve-wracking. You
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just, you have an idea of something in
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your head and you want it to be great.
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Um, but I think it's more like good
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nerves. than like you know overtaking
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me.
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>> Okay. You have a really incredible band
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too.
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>> Aren't they so good?
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>> They're phenomenal. And they've been
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like with you since the beginning,
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right?
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>> I'm pretty biased. I think there I'd put
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them up against anybody and there's only
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four of them.
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>> Yeah. I
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>> don't give them a big head cuz we all
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live together.
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>> You still ride the bus with them, right?
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There is not a separate art. There's not
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a separate artist bus.
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>> We have a crew bus and then we have our
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bus. And I'm sure that they would
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probably like it if I didn't ride on the
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bus with them.
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But I have zero interest in having my
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own bus. I do not want that isolation.
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It is already an isolated life. Those
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are my brothers. We text. I mean, we
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were texting this morning. We talk 24/7
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when we're out off the road. They are my
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best friends. Um I wouldn't be able to
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do it without him.
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>> Does it feel weird that you're their
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boss?
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>> Yes. Okay.
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>> Well, yeah. I mean that's a whole
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different dynamic where the people that
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you spend your the most time with you
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obviously get close but then you also
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employ them right
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>> you know it's not normal but you know
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they
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>> they're really they're good about
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separating it until they want to talk
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about bonuses
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>> I hope they watch this they probably
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will um I thought about this when I was
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getting ready I have an 11-year-old
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daughter
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>> your image you have kept such a clean
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image I don't know if that was
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intentional or not, but you are such a
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shining light for the young woman and as
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a mother, I really appreciate that.
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>> Oh my gosh, that's
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that's very nice. Um
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I think it's funny. I I would think at
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times not just the pieces of my story
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that have not been as um squeaky clean.
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But yeah, I mean I I was raised by
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really good women
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>> who
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I'm never going to do something for
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attention.
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I might sing for attention. I'm not
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going to compromise my class for
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anything.
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>> That's my girl.
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>> Um
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and whether that costs me something
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else, so be it. Um that's really
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important to me. And I do want to be
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somebody that
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moms and grandmas and women can feel
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good about their daughters or young
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people listening to. I take that very
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seriously.
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>> Well, I'm a mom and I do.
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>> All right, I got to let you go. Album
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coming out. Tour.
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>> Yes.
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>> Lots of tour dates. Yes.
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>> Anything else we need to talk about?
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>> No. I think just finally being able to
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start to talk about this and not tease
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it feels very good. And I really do mean
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it. I I know it. I'm not even gonna say
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I think. I know it's my best music yet.
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>> And it's on a new label.
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>> It is. I'm very excited.
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>> So exciting.
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>> Yeah. New new season.
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>> I'm here for it. Carly Pierce.
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