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Good morning and good morning. It
is welcome every one and all. It's

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our community connection right here on K
one and one. You dry state it's

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been brought to you. Buy our
good brands at Arnold Moore and Knee Camp

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at Funeral Home and Tall Grass Motors. This young lady that we have here

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in studio is famous. I gotta
tell you, I got she got a

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record out and she's got to be
playing right here in Martlesville. And her

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name is Jill Riley and Jill you
you and I have a shared love of

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a certain genre of music. What
is it Americana? Americana. Yeah,

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that's where it's at. Man,
we're all about it, yes, and

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we're sponsored by Price Tower. Uh, the Franklood Right building. I'm sure

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you know all about it. It's
amazing. And I found somewhere in some

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branding that it was an it's an
Americana jewel. I don't know if you

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guys referred to it as that,
but yeah, yeah, yeah, Breaklade

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right built only one skyscraper in his
whole life, and that's yeah, it's

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yeah, it's amazing. We were
there last night. Yeah, we're playing

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right there, next next to it, right there, at the Green Space

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Unity Square Space. Yeah, that
is a big stage, young lady.

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That is a big stage for for
two little people from Nashville. Yeah,

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you and your husband will be playing, yes and and uh, tell us

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first of all, a little bit
about your your your your music guy.

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How did you get started? How
did I get started? Um? I

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was singing into a water hose in
my granny's front yard and the grass was

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my audience. So see, I
practice for tonight. But this was like

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when I was five years old and
I felt somebody watching me and she was

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peeking around the corner. And later
when my mother came to pick me up,

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she set me on the kitchen counter
and said, listen to her,

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and I think she can sing.
And that was that was I knew that's

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what I was gonna do. Yeah. Well you kind of told your your

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dad a little something about your songwriting
because you started writing songs. Yes,

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twelve, I think about that thing. Why didn't I have better things to

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do than write songs? But you
know, songs just come, Yeah,

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they just come, and you have
to tend to them. So I always

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say that songwriting is not something I
remember wanting to do. It just sort

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of happened, and the great wake
up and find out that you're still a

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songwriter whether you like it or not. Yeah, you can't shake the bud.

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You can't tell your dad something about
the style of your Oh yeah,

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when I was seventeen, I said, I'm not going to write any anything

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worthwhile until I'm in my fifties.
Yeah, and I think, you know,

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a songwriter over fifty knows what to
do with it. So oh,

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sure, it's good. It's good
to be over over fifty. In the

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meantime, you could probably make a
million with an akey breaky Heart or something

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like that. Yeah, that would
have been nice. Yeah, that didn't

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quite happen, but that's all right. Yeah. So you're playing all over

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the place and not Yeah, we're
doing a fun little tour and we love

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to play in smaller communities because then
we can really connect with people, like

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really connect with the community, which
you started the h this interview with what's

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the name of that community? Connection? And that is what Oh cool,

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Well, there you go, that's
the whole purpose. Yes, yeah,

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we bring in folks far and wide
and we kind of localize it. And

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this is really what it's all about. Because you've been all over the world

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and now you're gonna be here in
great Yeah, it's awesome. So it's

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it's it's almost like a small town
tour. We're going um Oklahoma, Kansas,

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Texas, UM, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and right back up

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to Nashville. It's it's a it's
a wild sea out of Nashville. Like

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do you record in Nashville? Yes, oh yeah, well actually we recorded

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this album. So this is a
twelve song story album about my wild and

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wonderful Texas cattle ranching family span spans
four generations, and I purposely recorded in

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Amallo, Texas, which is the
area where we're from. We're from north

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of Amaillo, and used all Amailla
area musicians, which was such an honor

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and I'm so happy we did that. They're fantastic. But we did mix

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the album and master the album in
the RCA building and on music Row in

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Nashville. I tell you why you
can't swing it can't buy a tail and

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not hit a music studio in Nashville. No, that's true, that's true.

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They're everywhere or even a home studio, right, yeah, I gotta

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yeah, that's right. It was
cheap. Yeah, it sounds that way,

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but no, Nashville is kind of
a neat place. I go up

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north of town called the Hilltop and
that's where I kind of do oh wow,

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yeah, we're yes. But anyway, this is great. I can't

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wait for this LP coming coming out? What in just a couple of weeks.

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Well, the first single is out
on seven seven. Yes, but

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we're going to sneak you a copy
so you can play it. Thank you.

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Bartlesville will be the first. We'll
break it right, Yeah, come

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on, that's awesome. Yeah,
get into you later today. Okay,

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this is super So you know you're
you're talking about your family life, but

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being on a on a ranch and
stuff like that. I mean, is

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that it's done. Get more Americana
than that. That is American? Right,

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yeah, it better be. But
this is really cool. I mean

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it is It's so nice to meet
a kindred spirit and you and your husband

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play all over the place. What
you're thinking about going to France? Yes,

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uh, possibly September and maybe February
of twenty twenty whatever that year is

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twenty twenty four. Um, yeah, you know the the the album is

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about, um, a debate in
the family that caused a bit of a

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division in the family consternation. Yes, and the debate was it's not about

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cows at the end of the day, at the end of the day,

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but the debate was about how to
or how not to raise cattle, okay.

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And so the message of the album
is returned to love. Like wherever

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you might have family, old family
debates and old family divisions or new new

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divisions, return to love and reconcile
those family relationships. Because what we say

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is, um, what divides a
family divides a nation. And so something

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that we have in common with France
right now is that France is very They're

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very much about family. They're they're
they're as divided as America right now,

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and and they love cowboys stories.
So that's the that's the that's the call

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to France right there. Yeah.
So we're just trying to do our little

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part in the problem of division in
America by starting with family, whether that's

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your your bloodline family, or your
your friends you know, your family or

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friends, your work family. You
know. Yeah, where it begins it

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ends, Yes, ultimately, that's
right. This is really cool. I

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really like that concept that you got
going on there. Thank you. I

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got to hear the whole thing.
Yeah, you'll love. The first single

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is Cowboy Hats and Cadillacs, and
uh, where that came from is in

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our My husband and I grew up
in the same small town. But in

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our town there was a saying people
would say to me, I can always

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tell when one of your family members
passes away, because all you can see

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is cowboy hats and cadillacs. So
yeah, we'll do that song tonight.

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Very good, very good. By
the way, her husband looks a lot

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like Randy O one from Alabama.
Oh he gets that a lot, Yes

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he does. Josh Brolin, Yeah, Randy O. And yeah, I've

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known Randy for a long time.
And when you walk in with a camera,

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I'm like, going, what the
heck is Randy? Randy is my

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photographer. Now as you know this, No, we're kidding, you know.

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We just drove through what was the
what's the song? And the lake?

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Oh Tennessee River, I'm sorry,
Yeah, we just drove through what's

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Wayne's Winds? Yeah, their hometown
pain Alabama, four Paine and that river

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is gorgeous. It is. And
when you see the river and then you

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think about the song and you think, no, wonder they wrote this song.

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It's it's beautiful. Oh yeah,
you know, it's kind of funny.

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You can travel the world, but
your best inspiration is going to be

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kind of where you grew up.
Yes, you know who Guy Clark was.

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Yeah, So Guy Clark gave me
probably the best piece of advice for

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Yes D D. He said to
me one time, right, what you

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know? And this idea for this
record came the year before I moved to

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Nashville, and I tell people,
you know, it was a great idea,

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but I I didn't want to be
around the cowboy culture anymore. I

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was trying really hard to be a
hippie and so I kind of blew it

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off. But when Guy Clark said
that, I knew. I felt like,

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yeah, he's talking about that you
know, that project. But it

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was a good piece of advice,
and I'm glad that I listened and wrote

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it. Oh indeed, indeed,
you know it's uh, it's kind of

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funny. Uh. Nashville once you
get there and it becomes kind of like

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its own little thing, it is
its family. Yeah, and uh,

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and it really is family because if
you're kind of down on your luck,

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somebody's looking out for you. Yeah, likes to be quite honest with you.

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Yeah, well he's just kind of
huge. Yeah, it's a very

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small world community and it is like
family, a little thing. Whale And

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Jennings told this story a long time
ago. He said, that day,

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you know, he got discovered by
Bobby Bear. Bobby was having a few

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at a night club and Whalend just
have to be playing. Bobby Goes calls

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chet Atkins collecting the middle of night. So Whalen calls up his buddy Willie

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Nelson. He says, well,
thinking about moving Nashville, Willie goes,

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don't do it. There are pros
and cons for sure, and said,

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so what did I do? I
listened to Willie Nelson and I moved to

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Nashville. And he did do a
little bit of both. He listened to

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Willie and he moved. Yeah,
well Willie was there, So what the

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heck? You know? Yeah,
but you find this a very big plus

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as far as your development being in
music city. I do, yes,

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yeah, and I moved back to
Texas and then I was in LA for

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a little while. It really there's
something about being in the same space with

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all that creativity, and yes,
it really does it matters you know,

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I worked for the chief mastering engineer
of OURCA who mastered all of the Outlaw

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sound basically we're waiting small Yeah,
yeah, it's it's crazy. And then

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on another song on this album which
kind of ties the whole record up,

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it's called common Ground. It's the
title song. There's a line in that

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says I was ten years old when
I stared into the cover of mother Jesse

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Coulter record dropping down, and that
was a real moment in my life.

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I'd literally stared into this, the
cover of this Jesse Culter record, but

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what was happening was the sound of
steel guitar was hitting me for the first

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time. So to wind up getting
a job in that very building and actually

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studio see where we mixed was it's
my understanding that Chet and Whyland built that

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studio initially with the thought of recording
her vocals. I don't know that that

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ever happened, but yeah, yeah
it yeah. So it's it's a very

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full, full circle story there,
and we're officing back in the RCA building

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on music row to release this album. So yeah, I think what happened,

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Oh really, see, you know
that's good, Okay, I want

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to hear you tonight, okay,
what time thirty? And you and your

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husband going to take the stage.
Now, they're gonna be the little people,

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that's right, and they're gonna have
a great, big sound too.

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Yes, it's American and music.
We're gonna hear probably some stuff that folks

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might not have heard, but they
will take it with them when they leave,

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because you know, when you do
original music, people will say,

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well, I'm going to hear this
for the first time. Well, you

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know what, it stays with them. Yeah, it follows there. And

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by the way, if you need
a reminder, you can always purchase the

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album in advance pre saved on Spotify. That's right right now, not yet,

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but like within a week or so, we'll have the pre saved stuff

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out. Yes, just watch that
link tree link uh. Instagram is common

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Ground dot Album. Facebook is Jill
Riley Official. The website is common ground

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album dot com. All those places
you'll find the link for the pre say

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that stage of a whole lot since
we were teenagers to what we are now,

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Oh my goodness, the record store
and buy one now? Can it

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be nice? Cloud? We are
gonna do Vinyl eventually and we will be

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in like old school record stores.
It'll be awesome. Yes, I got

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one on old Root sixty six down
in Tulsa that I sneak in and visit

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every newly. Okay, come on, we'll get an armload. Time.

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Be nice doing buys. It's a
buyer. I'm in here just looking that

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going down memory Laney buying stuff.
So you know they got it's very throw

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on the Pearl district and I look
forward to seeing that there. Yeah,

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I just thought you need to.
I knew victrola turntable. I have not

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owned a turntable as an adult,
like, oh no, I have to

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have one. If if you gotta
put vinyl out, you've got to get

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a turntable. So I did.
My fifteen year old daughter, last of

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seven, she said, I need
a record player. So we got her

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one and she gets it out there
and she puts on you know, some

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Queen album. It was a red
vinyl. She says, how does this

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work? Yeah, Dandy's an old
time to allow me to show and she

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said, well that sounds different.
I said, well what do you mean

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she did? She said, it
sounds more live. Is that you listen

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to streams or you listen to a
compact. It sounds too perfect, and

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it sounds like, you know,
he's got a warmth to it, like

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it's a little bit more live sound. It's amazing that they've gravitated Yeah to

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that sound. It's awesome. So
she's exact art control is going to get

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a workout once that comes out.
Yeah, totally. Okay. Now we're

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the websites where we can find you
again common ground album dot com, Instagram

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is common ground dot album, and
Facebook is Jill Riley Official. Alrighty,

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hey, I want to thank you
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right folks, you been listening to
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