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A singer, songwriter, guitar player who lives in Oklahoma but has also performed in places like Texas, California, and Nashville, she became a featured artist on Radio Disney. She recorded an EP under the direction of producer Ken Caillat, best known for his work with Fleetwood Mac. Emily was named the Oklahoma and North American Country Music Association's Vocalist and Entertainer of the Year for five consecutive years. She opened shows for Marty Stuart, Sawyer Brown, and Bryan White, and even performed for President George W. Bush. One of her music videos gained almost 300 thousand views on YouTube in just ten months.

Notable Guest Quotes

"It's very cool for me to hear that everything that I've been working towards, it's paying off and it's getting me closer to where I want to be in music."

"I was having some issues at school with some girls teasing me and I wrote this song called 'Mean Girls' and that was really where I noticed that songwriting could be an outlet for me to write down feelings that I couldn't really put into words.  And so that's where I figured out how much songwriting was going to mean to me in the future."

"Music is something that has always been my biggest passion and I absolutely love it and it's what I want to do for the rest of my life and whatever it takes to get there I'm willing to do it."

"When you love something as much as I do, it's kinda hard not to go out and do that thing."

"We posted a video of me doing ('God Bless the USA') on YouTube, and, somehow the President (George W. Bush) saw it and we got this phone call from someone he worked with and he said, 'The President is coming to Woodward, Oklahoma, to speak... and he saw (the) video... and it teared on his heart strings and he would love to have her come and sing before he speaks'."

"I just want to take a risk and have it lead somewhere good."

"Throughout my writing I have just always wanted to spread a positive message to be that light for some people who might need it."

"I think that performing the national anthem anywhere, in front of any amount of crowd, it's very very important because that song represents America.  It represents our country.  It represents the people that are overseas that have fought in the past, in the present, and that will in the future.  And it represents those people that have given their lives so that we can have freedom."

Songs on this episode

"Old Guitar"
"Waterfall"