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Singer, songwriter, guitar player who just announced her third TV special that she will be filming next month. Just in the last two years alone she has not only released more new music but had significant success at radio, including charting a couple of her songs. She also toured Europe, including opening for ZZ Top. And she has done music videos that on YouTube alone have gotten hundreds of thousands of views. She's working on nationwide tour dates for 2019 and has started building an international tour as well.

Notable Guest Quotes

"I really believe that you need to work and live with your fan base."

"It is so obvious when artists just buy Likes.  It's not engagement.  There's a big difference."

"The Internet is so good but it's also so bad at the same time."

"Throughout my career as an indie artist and constantly trying to be creative and find ways to keep myself afloat and moving and getting bigger and progressing, I always try to be as creative as possible.  Every single show that you see of ours will always be different."

"I had written a few country songs when I was a teenager but God forbid my friends ever heard them.  They were all listening to rap music and hip hop."

"I came very close to a lot of things as a teenager, a lot of record deals, and, things that other people, sadly, ruined for me, band members and things like that.  So I said, I can't do this anymore.  If I'm not going to make it, I want it to be by my own doing.  I was sick of being tied to other people that didn't work as hard as me and didn't want the same things that I wanted.  So I said, 'I want to be a solo artist and I want to do country music.  That's what my heart is telling me'."

"When we started to fall in love, all of a sudden all this country music started pouring out of me."

"You have one life and one chance at things a lot of times and you just gotta go for it.  The amount of stupid decisions that I have made to get to where I am now is incredible.  If I thought smart about every single thing I've ever done to get to this point in my career I'd be nowhere."

"People don't realize how much money it takes to sustain an independent career, or any career, in the music business.  The expenses are immense."

"Making a face-to-face connection with anybody is the best possible way that you can conduct business.  And I always say that being a good person is going to take you further than any talent ever, ever will."

Songs on this episode

"Crazy Idea"
"Let's Don't"