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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at Me.

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Speaker 2: You see them coming, you see them going, gab supply grow,

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Speaker 2: dump to have a.

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Speaker 3: Show, Small, shut the stop, small, not to be broke? Urning.

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Speaker 4: Ah, how good? That's Neon Car Girl, Tammy Neilson. And

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Speaker 4: that other voice you could hear might have sounded familiar.

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Speaker 4: That's because it was neil fun So good ad Tammy's

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Speaker 4: just released a new album, Neon Car Girl. James Irwin

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Speaker 4: is here with us this morning.

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Speaker 5: Go to James Cura girda Jack. Oh well, what a

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Speaker 5: wonderful morning, Kaylee bell Foot last hour, isn't it so great?

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Speaker 5: We're celebrating powerful country singing, you know, hard working, hard

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Speaker 5: marty country girls, and we're seeing them out on the

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Speaker 5: world stage. Now, I mean country music maybe is the

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Speaker 5: new Nation's tonic a need?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny. Yeah, it's just it's gone through a

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Speaker 4: massive moment. At the moment, like we're saying with Kaylee,

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Speaker 4: it just sort of feels like it's exploding.

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Speaker 5: A it's absolutely exploding. I've been actually banging on about

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Speaker 5: Tammy Nielsen to Wellington listeners for a while. Now, I

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Speaker 5: mean she is a ball of energy. She is a

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Speaker 5: wild woman. She's the real deal. She is totally Heartbreak

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Speaker 5: City USA to me. And actually, last time we chatted, Jack,

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Speaker 5: I called it early and said there was an album

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Speaker 5: by Bill Ryder Jones Lucky Dar was the album of

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Speaker 5: the year, and you know, a bunch of music major

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Speaker 5: music publications at the end of the year agreed with me. Now,

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Speaker 5: I know it's only September, but I'm one of those

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Speaker 5: guys who's always chasing the album that's going to save

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Speaker 5: rock and roll in the loosest possible terms, or maybe

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Speaker 5: in this case, fire up some country soul and neon

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Speaker 5: Cowgirl currently might be sitting in number one place for me.

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Speaker 5: This is your tenth studio album, and that's what blew

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Speaker 5: my mind. Like I thought, oh, Tammy's released four or

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Speaker 5: five albums, and I went through her discography the ten

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Speaker 5: studio albums and then chuck in a couple of live albums.

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Speaker 5: This is bringing serious heat. This album. It's bootkicking, its

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Speaker 5: highway traveled, swager Field musical joy and Tammy's vocals are

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Speaker 5: absolutely roaring. She's born in Toronto, as a lot of

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Speaker 5: our listeners will know, but she came to Auckland. I

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Speaker 5: think she came to Auckland for love, and she pretty

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Speaker 5: much her music career from scratch when she got here.

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Speaker 5: She did grow up performing in a family band called

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Speaker 5: the Neilson's, and they were probably a bit like the

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Speaker 5: Jackson Five. They just toured across the US and Canada,

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Speaker 5: opening for legends like Johnny Cash. They're a pretty big

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Speaker 5: deal over in the States. I reckon Tammy Nelson clocked

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Speaker 5: her ten thousand hour long musical apprenticeship well long before

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Speaker 5: most of us went to tie our shoelaces. Yeah, so

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Speaker 5: neon Cowgirl. You know what I love about it, jack

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Speaker 5: gritty guitar licks. There's some glorious pedal steel that's never overdone.

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Speaker 5: The drums are really locked tight, and there's some fuzzed

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Speaker 5: up basslines which you don't really hear in country music

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Speaker 5: so often. And I really don't need to say how

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Speaker 5: good the singing is, because it's just out the gate incredible.

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Speaker 5: On some of the tracks, there's these beautiful orchestral strings

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Speaker 5: sort of swooping in and it kind of reminds me

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Speaker 5: of a h Grant Hugh Grant rom Com. You know,

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Speaker 5: the five weeks going on in the background. As the

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Speaker 5: romantic kiss or climax happens on the on the bridge

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Speaker 5: of the river and the fireworks go off. Musically, it's

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Speaker 5: a complete knockout. Is she's a great storyteller, and I

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Speaker 5: know you talked about it with Kaylie Bell. She's a

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Speaker 5: great storyteller as well, and that that makes the big

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Speaker 5: difference in country music. There's she's telling stories, she's lyrically,

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Speaker 5: she's really digging deep. She's she's singing about survival, about identity,

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Speaker 5: about lost jobs, lost loves, picking up hearts along the

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Speaker 5: road like souvenirs. There's there's kind of grit and gravitas.

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Speaker 5: Her voice feels so timeless, but it's kind of like

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Speaker 5: it's urgently alive. She's got something she wants everyone to

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Speaker 5: hear about. Yeah, it's it's you know, she's she's heading crossover,

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Speaker 5: like she's not just a country singer. You know. At

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Speaker 5: times I'm feeling like she's channeling sort of soul and

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Speaker 5: funkness and I feel like I'm bathing in the gospel

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Speaker 5: spirit at a church in Harlem, New York City. And

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Speaker 5: then other times I'm feeling like I I need to

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Speaker 5: get down down to cubistry and buy myself a giant

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Speaker 5: cowboy hat and go and join a line dancing. True,

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Speaker 5: she's she's just channeling so much is this soul and

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Speaker 5: this funk and the one thing that I always love

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Speaker 5: the music, but gospel handclaps. You know, definitely something there.

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Speaker 5: If you're a wreath, if you're in a Wretha Franklin fan,

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Speaker 5: you're gonna love it when she hits those big, banging

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Speaker 5: numbers and there's there's some huge dynamics on this on

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Speaker 5: this album, I did laugh. I was looking up a

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Speaker 5: few reviews. Mojo magazine, which is a terrific music magazine,

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Speaker 5: called her the Feral Patsy Climb, which I thought was

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Speaker 5: a wonderful one. You know likes Yeah, I reckon that's

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Speaker 5: a total compliment. You know, she's and this parts there's

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Speaker 5: really quiet parts in it as well. There's a lovely song,

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Speaker 5: the last song of the album, Loneliness of Love. It's

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Speaker 5: a solo piano track where she she kind of shows

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Speaker 5: she's not just a powerhouse. She's actually a beautiful songwriter

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Speaker 5: who can exude emotion and and really hushed tones. So

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Speaker 5: it's gone a little bit of everything you know on

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Speaker 5: this album for people she collaborates with a guy called JD. McPherson,

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Speaker 5: who sounds a bit like our own Delaney Davison, who

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Speaker 5: I'm a big fan as well. Like you said, Neil

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Speaker 5: Finn's cracks in on that because it was actually recorded

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Speaker 5: at Roundhouse Studio, which is owned by Neil Finn and Auckland.

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Speaker 5: It's equal parts bootscooting party. It's hard on the sleeve balladerie.

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Speaker 5: It's got stadium level swagger. It's the sound of highways,

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Speaker 5: you know late at night that she's probably she's traveled

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Speaker 5: across to it. It's Neon motel rooms. It's gospel choirs

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Speaker 5: from the pulpit and you know, I'm not even a

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Speaker 5: boozer jack, but if ever there's an album that made

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Speaker 5: me feel like pouring a bourbon and right about this

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Speaker 5: time of the morning. Yeah, it's terrific. She's playing live

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Speaker 5: all across the country. She got gigs coming up in October.

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Speaker 5: So Wantington, Auckland, christ Church, Nelson, total on and make

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Speaker 5: sure you get along. Honestly, if Tammy Nelson's Neon Cowgirl

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Speaker 5: was a crime scene, then you're going to find the

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Speaker 5: best DNA of soul and gospel under the victims fingertips

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Speaker 5: and my goodness, I'm happy to be one of those victims.

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Speaker 5: I'm not even a huge country man, but I am

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Speaker 5: loving it. I'm going to get myself some Cowboy books.

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Speaker 4: So what did you give it, James? Out of ten?

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Speaker 5: Oh, look, it's a nine and a half out of

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Speaker 5: ten and I haven't been in a nine and a

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Speaker 5: half for a long time. I just love this.

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Speaker 4: Oh fantastic. I'm looking forward to having more of a listen.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, James. Love that. James Irwin reckons

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Speaker 4: nine out and a half out of ten as the

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Speaker 4: score for Neon Cowgirl Tammy Nelson's latest. We're going to

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Speaker 4: play a bit more for you in a couple of minutes.

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