1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,080 Speaker 1: Tammy Nielsen seems to be getting ever bigger internationally lady. 2 00:00:03,120 --> 00:00:06,000 Speaker 1: This year she's touring the US with Willie Nelson and 3 00:00:06,080 --> 00:00:10,160 Speaker 1: Bob Dylan. She's into Europe as well as far as 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: we're concerned. There are five shows here in October, which 5 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,040 Speaker 1: is good. The single is Borrowing My Boots. The album 6 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:17,400 Speaker 1: is called Neon Cowgirl, which is out next month, which 7 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: is exciting. In Tammy Nilson's back, whether it's a very 8 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:20,439 Speaker 1: good morning. 9 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 2: To you, good morning, how are you? 10 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,919 Speaker 1: I'm well, thank you? Do you join us with rollers 11 00:00:24,920 --> 00:00:27,040 Speaker 1: in your hair or something? Are you getting ready for 12 00:00:27,080 --> 00:00:27,840 Speaker 1: tonight already? 13 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 2: Yeah? The music awards prep. 14 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 3: I have two kids, so my day starts usually around 15 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 3: six thirty and that's every day, so I'm gonna have to, 16 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,239 Speaker 3: you know, by the time the awards rolls around, I'm 17 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:45,800 Speaker 3: propping my eyes open with two picks, you know, to 18 00:00:46,159 --> 00:00:46,680 Speaker 3: stay away. 19 00:00:46,760 --> 00:00:48,680 Speaker 1: But you're up for some awards tonight. Is it a 20 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:50,920 Speaker 1: good gathering? Is it one of those moods? I haven't 21 00:00:50,920 --> 00:00:52,840 Speaker 1: been for a number of years, but there's the mood 22 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:54,800 Speaker 1: in the room. You can get a vibe for the industry. 23 00:00:54,880 --> 00:00:57,720 Speaker 1: Is your vibe At the moment, the music industry is 24 00:00:57,720 --> 00:00:59,200 Speaker 1: in good, good heart or not. 25 00:01:00,920 --> 00:01:03,760 Speaker 3: I always love the awards because it is it's a 26 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:07,440 Speaker 3: gathering of our community. It's celebrating each other and lifting 27 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 3: each other up. And you know, when you're a musician, 28 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,520 Speaker 3: your career is you're quite siloed. You know, you're out 29 00:01:13,560 --> 00:01:17,960 Speaker 3: on the road, you're not in a work environment with colleagues, 30 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 3: and so whenever we get to have awards, it's like, 31 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 3: I guess, you know, like you guys having a Christmas party. 32 00:01:24,520 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 2: You know, it's like staff Christmas party. 33 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:29,920 Speaker 3: That's when we actually get to all see each other 34 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:30,959 Speaker 3: and celebrate each other. 35 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,920 Speaker 1: So yeah, I love it fantastic. These are random questions 36 00:01:34,959 --> 00:01:37,119 Speaker 1: that I just kneed before I forget them. I watched 37 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,839 Speaker 1: you video the other day and you're at the Grand 38 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,839 Speaker 1: Old operating. Does that ever get old? Being at the Grand? 39 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,080 Speaker 3: No? 40 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 2: Hell no. 41 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 3: When you've been waiting thirty years of your life for 42 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 3: a dream to come true and that dream actually comes true, 43 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 3: it can come true, you know, one time or a 44 00:01:57,440 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 3: hundred times, and it never gets old because it's something 45 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,160 Speaker 3: that you've been you've been with. It's making up for 46 00:02:03,200 --> 00:02:04,840 Speaker 3: thirty years of want to do it. You know. 47 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 1: It doesn't have a vibe about it is there a 48 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:08,680 Speaker 1: magic about the place. 49 00:02:09,520 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 3: Oh absolutely like you feel like you're you're getting to 50 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:16,840 Speaker 3: be like a tiny little thread in this massive tapestry 51 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 3: of history and country music. And you know you're you're 52 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 3: walking onto a stage. You're standing on a circle in 53 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 3: the middle of the stage that comes from the Rymann 54 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:31,960 Speaker 3: Auditorium where you know Patsy Klein and Johnny Cash and 55 00:02:32,080 --> 00:02:37,240 Speaker 3: Elvis Presley all stood on that circle and the history 56 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,799 Speaker 3: of not just country music but music itself is you 57 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,280 Speaker 3: feel it surrounding you and bouncing off the walls like that. 58 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 1: And the watching and watching the video. That outfit you're wearing, 59 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,760 Speaker 1: where do you get that from? That must be made 60 00:02:51,840 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: for you. 61 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:56,920 Speaker 3: All that outfit is of course made by my favorite 62 00:02:56,919 --> 00:03:01,160 Speaker 3: New Zealand girls, the designers who make most of my dresses, 63 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 3: and it's usually collaboration between Curvy Coture by Judy d 64 00:03:05,880 --> 00:03:09,119 Speaker 3: Judy Martin up here in the North Island and then 65 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:13,240 Speaker 3: down in Wellington Zoe Hall, who is one of our 66 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 3: celebrated New Zealand artists. She normally see her work on 67 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 3: huge murals all around the country, but she, you know, 68 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,239 Speaker 3: shrinks it down from my dresses. 69 00:03:22,720 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: How did that co labby thing come about then. 70 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,560 Speaker 2: Oh it was years ago. 71 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 3: It was years ago, probably ten or twelve years ago 72 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:34,480 Speaker 3: now that Zoe reached out to me and said, I'd 73 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,040 Speaker 3: love to make you a dress. And her very first 74 00:03:38,080 --> 00:03:40,240 Speaker 3: dress that she ever made me was on the cover 75 00:03:40,280 --> 00:03:45,240 Speaker 3: of my Sassafras album. She made this incredible Oh god there, 76 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 3: I think there was like three thousand rhinestones on it. 77 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:50,080 Speaker 2: So I met my match. 78 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 1: You know, well, it's no, it's just it's an eye catching, 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 1: fantastic looking thing. The next random question I have for 80 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,560 Speaker 1: you and we had fly my prottues on the other day, 81 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,680 Speaker 1: Bannaby Willa. Anyway, I've become fascinated with how long albums 82 00:04:02,720 --> 00:04:07,360 Speaker 1: take to put together and what's creatively acceptable and how 83 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:09,840 Speaker 1: long did this get take me on Cowboy take to 84 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: get put together? And do you ever have the psychological 85 00:04:12,880 --> 00:04:15,840 Speaker 1: thing thinking I haven't spent enough time on it, or 86 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: this thing is you know, correspondingly gone on so long 87 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:20,599 Speaker 1: now I don't know whether it's any good anymore. 88 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 3: I remember once Don mcglash and saying to me, I'm 89 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:28,640 Speaker 3: at that stage in the album creation where you know, 90 00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 3: I've written my songs and I'm wondering, like, are these 91 00:04:31,960 --> 00:04:34,440 Speaker 3: brilliant or is it just a turd in a milkshake? 92 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:39,560 Speaker 3: And I think of it every time I'm like writing 93 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 3: these songs and going are these good? 94 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:42,919 Speaker 2: Or are they turds in a milk shak? 95 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:48,360 Speaker 3: But it's uh, He's so eloquent, even in just not 96 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 3: even songwriting. 97 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 1: It's fantastic. So this one took a long time or 98 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,560 Speaker 1: a short time or I mean, Nashville's involved with us again, 99 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: are they? 100 00:04:55,680 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 2: Well? 101 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,680 Speaker 3: I do my albums all myself, and I recorded this 102 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 3: in New Dealing with my New Zealand band at Roundhead 103 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:08,400 Speaker 3: uh Neil Neil Finn's beautiful studio. And most of my albums, 104 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:12,960 Speaker 3: by industry standards, happen pretty quickly from the time I'm 105 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 3: kind of laying down. 106 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:15,760 Speaker 2: The music to when it comes out. 107 00:05:15,839 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 3: It's usually a year, and that sounds long to the 108 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,680 Speaker 3: average person, but you know, when you're talking an industry 109 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,520 Speaker 3: where people take years to make an album. 110 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 2: I usually write my albums. 111 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,279 Speaker 3: And then track them track them within a week. So 112 00:05:30,680 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 3: most of my albums are live off the floor. The 113 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:37,200 Speaker 3: takes that you hear are full takes me and my 114 00:05:37,320 --> 00:05:42,159 Speaker 3: band in the room performing it live, so there's yeah, 115 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,400 Speaker 3: it's real, and I think in this age of you know, 116 00:05:44,960 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 3: impending AI, the more we can lean into our humanity, 117 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:51,719 Speaker 3: you hope that comes through in the music and connects 118 00:05:51,760 --> 00:05:53,080 Speaker 3: with other human hearts, you know. 119 00:05:53,279 --> 00:05:58,839 Speaker 1: And that's this, this William Bulb thing, tell me, tell me, 120 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:01,120 Speaker 1: tell me about that and how does that work? 121 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,599 Speaker 3: I just I just love how we're just casually William 122 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: Bob where William Bold. 123 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: Yeah. 124 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:10,800 Speaker 3: I was asked to be part of the Outlaw Festival Tour. 125 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,919 Speaker 3: It's a touring festival that's gone on for ten years now. 126 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,000 Speaker 3: They started a couple of weeks ago on the West 127 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:18,960 Speaker 3: Coast at the Hollywood Bowl and then they work their 128 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 3: way across the country until basically end of September, and 129 00:06:23,760 --> 00:06:27,480 Speaker 3: the lineup kind of rotates all throughout the festival or 130 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:32,800 Speaker 3: the tour, but the remaining headliners are always Bob Dylan 131 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:36,560 Speaker 3: and Willie Nelson and the rest of us come and go. 132 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,919 Speaker 3: So it's it's it's a it's a tour I've dreamt 133 00:06:40,960 --> 00:06:44,520 Speaker 3: of being on for the past, oh my goodness, five 134 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 3: or six years since I heard of it, and now 135 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:49,120 Speaker 3: I can't. 136 00:06:49,160 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 2: I can't believe I actually get to join it. 137 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:55,440 Speaker 1: You've got to have the saints that you've made it now, 138 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:57,840 Speaker 1: don't you. I mean, if there was Aberney, you've got 139 00:06:57,839 --> 00:06:59,920 Speaker 1: to have a saints that things have like coming your way. 140 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:01,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 141 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 3: I think that everybody has different definitions of making it. 142 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 3: And you know, to some my career wouldn't you know, 143 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:13,840 Speaker 3: wouldn't look like making it for them. However, I get 144 00:07:13,880 --> 00:07:16,160 Speaker 3: to do what I love. I get to still live 145 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:18,360 Speaker 3: on the other side of the world, have my family, 146 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:22,480 Speaker 3: have my children, and get to kind of zip out 147 00:07:22,480 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 3: for little pockets of tours that aren't too long away 148 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 3: from them. And to me, that success. You know, I 149 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:34,360 Speaker 3: know people who are far more I guess as the 150 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 3: industry would call more successful than me. But they're friends 151 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:41,160 Speaker 3: who have you know, they don't have families. They're on 152 00:07:41,200 --> 00:07:43,480 Speaker 3: their road twenty four to seven, and that's not something 153 00:07:43,520 --> 00:07:45,120 Speaker 3: I'm really interested. 154 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,320 Speaker 1: So it's your success. If you're successful, you're successful. This 155 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,560 Speaker 1: co writing business. I'm into Nashville before the co writing. 156 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: Do you do it all by zoom? 157 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 2: That's you know. 158 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,800 Speaker 3: I haven't done a lot of co writing in Nashville 159 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 3: other than you know, these couple songs and it. You know, initially, 160 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 3: I really I try to zoom session. 161 00:08:07,200 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 2: I'm like, this is so weird. 162 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 3: You know, like it's weird not being in the room 163 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: with someone, and I do try to write in person 164 00:08:13,400 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 3: as much as I can when I'm in town. However, 165 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 3: this session for Borrow My Boots with Ashley McBride and 166 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:24,120 Speaker 3: Shelley Fairchild was a pretty magical experience. 167 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 2: You know. 168 00:08:24,560 --> 00:08:26,680 Speaker 3: It was just like a one hour zoom and we 169 00:08:26,680 --> 00:08:30,600 Speaker 3: were basically cackling and laughing for most of it and 170 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:33,319 Speaker 3: a song came out of it, so you know, it 171 00:08:33,360 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 3: can be a great experience as well. 172 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,040 Speaker 2: It's not my preferred way of doing it, but that 173 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 2: you know, if you have to do it, that was 174 00:08:40,600 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 2: the best. 175 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,520 Speaker 1: I mean, you mentioned round here before, which is the 176 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:46,680 Speaker 1: Finn studio and kneels on some of the album. Isn't 177 00:08:46,720 --> 00:08:49,840 Speaker 1: he does he just get? Does he like Poppin'? Does 178 00:08:49,880 --> 00:08:51,840 Speaker 1: he go you hide my studio? Do you want me 179 00:08:51,880 --> 00:08:53,800 Speaker 1: to play something? You'll get some coffee or how does 180 00:08:53,800 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: that work? 181 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,679 Speaker 2: He wanders the halls like a ghost. 182 00:08:57,360 --> 00:09:04,400 Speaker 3: Yeah. No, it's pretty special that my last album was 183 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:06,640 Speaker 3: recorded kind of in the midst between where the world 184 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:09,000 Speaker 3: was kind of closed up and there wasn't a lot 185 00:09:09,040 --> 00:09:10,920 Speaker 3: of touring going on, and so Neil was actually home 186 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 3: and he did pop in and you know he I 187 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:14,720 Speaker 3: remember him coming shyly up to me. 188 00:09:14,720 --> 00:09:16,559 Speaker 2: And being like, is it okay? Do you mind? 189 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:19,200 Speaker 3: You know, you're you're laying all the strings today and 190 00:09:19,240 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 3: that's a beautiful way to spend the day. 191 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:22,559 Speaker 2: Would you mind if we came. 192 00:09:22,400 --> 00:09:26,000 Speaker 3: And watched him and Sharon and I'm like, this is 193 00:09:26,080 --> 00:09:27,560 Speaker 3: your houseboy. 194 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: Like you can go anywhere you want. 195 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 3: But this album, he was actually overseas touring his new album, 196 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 3: Gravity Stairs, and so he wasn't around the studio, And 197 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,680 Speaker 3: it ended up I was working the same producer, Stephen Shram, 198 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:47,600 Speaker 3: who produced their latest album, was in town from Australia 199 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 3: and he produced my album as well. So it was 200 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:53,760 Speaker 3: kind of this beautiful lucky thing that I got to 201 00:09:53,840 --> 00:09:54,679 Speaker 3: use Steven as well. 202 00:09:54,720 --> 00:09:55,720 Speaker 2: And he's still here. 203 00:09:57,600 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 3: Has worked with some amazing Kiwi artists. 204 00:09:59,679 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 2: So with that connection with. 205 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 3: Steve and I said, oh this, you know, the title 206 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,720 Speaker 3: track keep Me On Cowgirl, Like do you think Neil 207 00:10:07,760 --> 00:10:10,319 Speaker 3: would would put some harmonies on it? And he's like, well, 208 00:10:10,360 --> 00:10:14,520 Speaker 3: just ask him, you know, And so I reached out 209 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,000 Speaker 3: and said, I don't suppose you would want to, you know, 210 00:10:17,080 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 3: in the midst of all your touring, you're probably too busy, 211 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:21,760 Speaker 3: and he came back to me right away. He goes, actually, 212 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:23,760 Speaker 3: I'm home in a couple of days before we head 213 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:26,000 Speaker 3: off to Australia, I'll be home. Let me get my 214 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:28,360 Speaker 3: stuff set up. And he didn't just lend his vocals. 215 00:10:28,400 --> 00:10:31,559 Speaker 3: He like, he put on piano, he did a remix. 216 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 3: He was just he fully invested. He's like, I love 217 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 3: this song so brilliant. 218 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,079 Speaker 2: He's a gem, fantastsolute, fantastic. 219 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: Well, good luck to not album of the Year Neilsen 220 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,200 Speaker 1: sings Nielsen of course based country music artist. And you're 221 00:10:44,240 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 1: in the people's choice of and mind you you hit 222 00:10:46,280 --> 00:10:48,240 Speaker 1: the country music be Out the Die and you won 223 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,040 Speaker 1: that as well. What was the lifetime achievement or what 224 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: do they call it these days. 225 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, for contributions to country music and out, which was 226 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 3: pretty I was very surprised by that they just started 227 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 3: this honor and I was the first recipient recipient, so 228 00:11:05,679 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 3: I was I cried my eyelashes off on and have. 229 00:11:09,920 --> 00:11:12,480 Speaker 1: You tried the new iHeart country music station. They worked 230 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: you on the playlist, which I didn't realize you'd never 231 00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:19,680 Speaker 1: been on a linear radio station playlist, which I suppose 232 00:11:19,920 --> 00:11:22,920 Speaker 1: is something appalling about you. Know broadcasting in this country 233 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,880 Speaker 1: that we haven't recognized country music before. But there you go, 234 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:27,080 Speaker 1: you're on you know, you're on a playlist for goodness sight. 235 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,600 Speaker 3: It's it's pretty amazing after all this time, and this 236 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:32,920 Speaker 3: is the first time one of my singles, you know, 237 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,559 Speaker 3: it's it's a testament to New Zealanders. All of my 238 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:38,960 Speaker 3: albums have gone number one because New Zealanders love country music, 239 00:11:39,520 --> 00:11:42,040 Speaker 3: but none of my singles have ever charted or gotten 240 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:45,199 Speaker 3: played on the radio, because, as you say, the industry 241 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:48,240 Speaker 3: isn't really kind of cottoned onto country music until recently, 242 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:51,400 Speaker 3: and so for the past two decades it's been, you know, 243 00:11:51,440 --> 00:11:55,000 Speaker 3: a pretty pretty barren desert when it comes to radio play. 244 00:11:55,400 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 2: And so this is the first time. I just noticed 245 00:11:58,160 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 2: this week. 246 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,400 Speaker 3: That my song has gone to number nine on their 247 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,160 Speaker 3: Hot Ones chart, which is massive. 248 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:06,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, really exciting, fantastic. 249 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,719 Speaker 1: Great to catch you up, good luck tonight, and we'll 250 00:12:08,720 --> 00:12:09,640 Speaker 1: get you back real soon. 251 00:12:10,520 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: Thank you mate. 252 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: Nice to talk to you, Tammy Nielsen. For more from 253 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to news talks. It'd 254 00:12:17,080 --> 00:12:20,960 Speaker 1: be from six am weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.