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Speaker 1: This is Kelly Henderson and you are listening to at

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Speaker 1: Home on the Velvet's Edge podcast. This week I talked

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Speaker 1: to Colby Klay and Nellie joy of country group Gone West.

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Speaker 1: Most of you probably remember Colby as the Grammy winning

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Speaker 1: pop artist with hits like Bubbly, but she has now

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Speaker 1: joined forces with three other longtime musician friends to form

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Speaker 1: the group, and their debut album will be released on

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Speaker 1: June twelve. I had such a great conversation with the

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Speaker 1: women have Gone West, and I even learned some fun

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Speaker 1: facts as we all shared the strangest things we find

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Speaker 1: ourselves doing to pass the time during social isolation. I

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Speaker 1: got a deeper look into the more emotional aspects of

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Speaker 1: isolation and some of the feelings that Nellie Joyce specifically

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Speaker 1: has taken the time to process while being off the road.

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Speaker 1: It was the perfect combination of the ups and downs

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Speaker 1: that I know we have all been feeling, while also

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Speaker 1: finding the positivity through it all. Here's our conversation. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so everyone in this band has kind of their own

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Speaker 1: musical pass right. Like Colby, You've had a very successful

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Speaker 1: pop career. Nellie, you were part of the country Do

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Speaker 1: at the James Deer Girls and then the Gas Boats too.

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Speaker 1: They were individual artists and songwriters. So what was the

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Speaker 1: motivation to start this group? UM, yeah, all that it's

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Speaker 1: it's so I think that's like the natural progression of

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Speaker 1: why our band came about is because we all had

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Speaker 1: our own individual careers and in like different styles of music,

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Speaker 1: and we've all been friends, like going back about fifteen

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Speaker 1: years now and so UM in that process of hanging

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Speaker 1: it kind of sparked the idea for us to think, well,

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Speaker 1: a band and make it like official and have fun. UM.

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Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's crazy because Jason and I, UM,

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Speaker 1: we wrote my first album Coco together, and we wrote

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Speaker 1: on all my albums UM thereafter. UM, justin I was

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Speaker 1: the san of his Hawaiian music, and then I asked

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Speaker 1: him to join my band in two Probus and seven

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Speaker 1: and we got to tour the world together and write

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Speaker 1: songs together. UM. And then Nelly and Jason they met

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Speaker 1: here in Nashville in a writing session and after a

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Speaker 1: been married for eight years. So it's just been this

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Speaker 1: like like friend couples, um, music, friendship, work everything, M

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Speaker 1: to be a band. Well, so, Colobe, you were mostly

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Speaker 1: like an individual artist though. Was that hard shift to

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Speaker 1: just because you guys were so close? Was it just

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Speaker 1: an easy natural thing? Yeah, it was. It was naturally.

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Speaker 1: It was something that we all wanted, so, um it was.

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Speaker 1: I for most of my career actually, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: be in a band. I always thought it looked fun

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Speaker 1: to share interview questions and be on the road and

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Speaker 1: share the success and and share the hardships together, um

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Speaker 1: and so like, especially to have that be with your

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Speaker 1: was just gonna ask you, Nelly, Um, was is it

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Speaker 1: are you all do they all have a pretty good

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Speaker 1: balance of leaving work at home, I mean leaving work

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Speaker 1: great question, you know, honestly, it's all we've kind of

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Speaker 1: which I love. Um, but yeah, I mean doing what

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Speaker 1: being forced to slow down has done, you know what

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Speaker 1: anything specific? You know, cold we all go to you first,

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Speaker 1: but like emotionally that's come up for you that you

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Speaker 1: just weren't really expecting at the beginning. It was just

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Speaker 1: this weird thing of like, you know, we're normally there's

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Speaker 1: entire world is doing the same thing right now. We're

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Speaker 1: or dying, And it's just this bizarre thing that none

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Speaker 1: I was definitely going through waves of like the mixed

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Speaker 1: And then there was parts to day that I was like,

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Speaker 1: oh wow, like I'm so glad, like people that get

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Speaker 1: it's like a weird wave of emotion like throughout the day. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it could definitely shift over and over. Nelly, are you

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Speaker 1: It really makes you kind of digest anything that you

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