WEBVTT - Kree Harrison 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:16.239 Caroline. She's a queen of talking. He was son. She's 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:20.160 only yes, actually got the snoop on on the on side. 0:00:20.560 --> 0:00:29.760 No one can do within clie my Carola, Caroline. No 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:36.680 one can do within quiet Caroline Carola. Hey, y'all, welcome 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.959 to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.519 I know music, I know people, and I know the 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.440 questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.479 heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.760 could be adult content. And I have Cree Harrison joining 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.640 me this week. I'm obsessed with Creed. I've loved her 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.279 for like ten years. I've known her and Nashville for 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.520 over a decade. She's an angel on earth. She has 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.520 the best voice I've ever heard in my life. I 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.840 really mean that. She's so good and her story is incredible. 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:10.080 She got second place on American Idol in the midst 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:12.520 of a lot of other amazing things she's done, which 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:15.960 she just released new music too, called This Old Thing 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:18.479 and it is so good and I got to hear 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:20.360 the whole ep, and I'm telling you the whole album. 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:23.320 She made a whole album. It is knock your socks 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.160 off good. So get excited, world, because Cree Harrison is 0:01:26.240 --> 0:01:27.839 here and I cannot wait for you to hear everything 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:35.480 she has going on. Welcome Cree. Okay, Cree Harrison, Hi, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.880 sitting here with a fabulous create. We must know this 0:01:38.920 --> 0:01:43.000 is round two. Yes, it is, which is exciting because 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.679 I just like hanging out with you. I appreciate that. 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.600 I love hanging out with you. I know you're so busy, though, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.480 and I have to tell everybody what happened. Cree is 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.680 a badass, and I was like, Cree, can I interview you? 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.320 And she's like yes, and she's all this stuff going on. 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:59.120 She's releasing her new album. She's like so incredible. We 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.600 did this interview was so fun. It was, and then 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:04.680 I didn't record it. I just think that we were 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:09.800 having too much fun, and that lead to not realizing 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:11.840 that we were recording anything, which is fine with me. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.680 Until you're cool though, I mean, like so many people 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:17.000 will be like, hell, no, I'm not doing another interview 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:20.680 with you. Get out my hair. No, I don't care. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.760 Get in there, get in all of the hairs, get 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:26.120 in you. I wish you do use dry shampoo. Yes, literally, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.760 just put some of my hair and you have I do. 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.600 I'm sure some of it looks like which hair. No. 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:34.520 I think dirty hair is the only way to go 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.400 is get that body. Curls better, stays better, do curler hair. 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.760 I do a little bit. Yeah, it looks really nice. 0:02:40.960 --> 0:02:43.280 Your hair looks really nice. I curled it for you. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.800 I'm trying to do on myself up a little more 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:47.520 this time. I was like, I'm gonna pull my hair. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:52.799 You always have good hair. Yes, I know, round too. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:58.000 And look it's recording. I see numbers happening. Your microphone's rolling. 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:02.960 It is. You have a quieter voice to me as 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:06.240 I do. Okay, so I'm this is cool. I just 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.080 I'm holding this People magazine right now and it's called 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:12.440 the Best of American Idol. And oh wait, I'm gonna 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.440 open and up there you are a creed because wait, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:19.080 oh yeah, you were runner freaking up on American Idol. 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:24.799 I was. It's it's funny because when people they'll see 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.840 me out. It was actually yesterday somebody was like, where 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.280 are you on the Voice or American Idol? And I 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:34.079 always say Dancing with the Stars And they're like, what, like, yeah, 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.360 I lost Dancing with the Stars. Hang it. They don't 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.040 they goes right over their head, like you were in 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:42.200 my living room. I just don't know why, but you 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.040 were there. You were there. I remember what you did 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.720 do some dancing on American Idol. Did you have to 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.480 learn those moves? Yeah? Do you do a lot of 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.800 spirit fingers, jazz hands, jazz hands? Do they call him 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:59.040 jazz hands? Do? No? I know you know, Kelly, but 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:03.840 we were, Yes, we were um back for the finale 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:10.280 and they made us line dance, which was hilarious. Everyone 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.000 we did like a country medley. Well, I watched the 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.360 finale and we all wear white and you come out 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:19.000 and it's like amazing, all the people who have been 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.839 affected by American Idol. Yeah, like the Idol family. It 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.640 was really it was honestly like a high school reunion. 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.160 It really is an Idol family, it is. I know, 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:31.320 you keep up with your cast, yeah, um, I mean 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.479 you spend so much time with these people. You become 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:40.159 really really close to him. I mean adore everyone that 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:44.680 was you know, my top ten. After the show ends, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.040 you go on tour together. You know, how's the Idol Tour. 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.400 It's the only one top five females, right, Yeah, Yes, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.720 we made Idol history. It was awesome. It was genuinely 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.680 like at estrod Infest, there's so much did Joss periods 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:02.360 all link up? Probably? Yeah? Actually yeah for sure. On tour, 0:05:03.160 --> 0:05:09.080 yeah we did. How was that it was fun? I 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:13.960 mean it was, um, you know, fast paced. I mean 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.520 I feel like that in the show. I had to 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:23.560 like center myself and rather than be tired and um, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.000 you know, I had to like take every minute in 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.599 because it was just so fast. Were you conscious of 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.640 taking it in? Yeah? I was. I think being here 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.840 in Nashville for so long, I realized that, like you know, 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:39.440 ship happens so quickly, comes and goes, and the good 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:42.359 or bad ways, and if you so, if you like, 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.560 you have to just stay in a moment being here. Yeah, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.280 being here for as long as I did, I think 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:51.520 that helped with my So you start at the beginning. 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:56.280 You grew up in Texas. I did, And you always 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.400 knew you wanted to sing. Yes, starting from like ten 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:02.640 years old, you were doing competitions, You went on the 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:07.159 ROSEO Donald Show. Yeah, well, I I sang at every 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:10.960 freaking local event in Texas that you can possibly imagine, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:16.120 from like churches to rodeos to festivals, operis um and 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:21.440 then a friend sent in a videotape of me opening 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:26.719 for Percy Sledge or Wayne Tubes one of those um 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.080 and rose O'donald was like, hey, we want you to 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.240 be a part of you know, our Talented Kids segments 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.240 that in. Yeah, and then she like scooped you up. Yeah. 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:38.920 I came home from school and my mom was like, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.039 so you're gonna be on Roseo Donald. We got a 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:45.039 peck or stuff and I was like, what what do 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:48.719 you mean Donald? You kind of feel like, okay, cool? 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:53.800 Oh yeah, I was fucking pumped. You were ready? Yeah, absolutely, Yeah, Okay, 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:57.400 so you did the Roseo Donald show and then you 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.520 also I thought it was cool you played the Apollo 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:05.040 thing I did, yes for you? What was that? It 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:07.400 was fun? How old were you like that age? No, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.880 I was eight then that was before I know, it's dumb. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:14.680 I was an infant. Uh you could already sing when 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.400 you're that young. I mean literally, it's the only thing 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:20.240 that I know how to do. Right, That's not true. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.760 I know, I know, I know, like my hair like 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.800 you're here. No, uh no, seriously, though I've known forever. 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.840 I mean we were talking about this last time, like 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:37.640 the first interview, which no, I mean how crazy it is. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.760 I mean, you've known for your whole life that you 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:43.680 wanted to be in entertaining and I didn't know singing 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.880 like you knew and mine is not singing. Now I've 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.480 realized you're singing, it's hosting, but you knew yours was singing. 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:51.680 I feel like when you, while we have that in common, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.320 whenever you grow up and you're just like wanting to 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.160 be creative in every way. Um, you know, I didn't 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:01.720 start writing till I was fourteen, and that was another 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:03.680 outlet for me. I think that you just realized that 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.640 once you get older. But you had always stemmed from 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.000 me performing for sure, And we were talking in the 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:10.880 first interview, but I think this is such a great 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:13.880 point that we talked about. When you know your passion, 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:17.360 like when you are born, knowing why you're waking up 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.240 and knowing what you're meant to do on this earth, 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.200 Like that's a really amazing thing, because some people kind 0:08:22.200 --> 0:08:24.120 of wander and they never figure it out. I know, 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.400 I know, I always I feel for that because I 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.760 could I could not imagine not knowing and then also 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:36.120 not being able to pursue music like I love. Yeah, 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:41.200 I live eve and breathe music. I feel like some 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.079 people think like chasing passions is exhausting, like, oh gosh, 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:45.760 I could never do that. That's so time would be 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.360 more exhausting too, not that. Yeah, that's more draining to 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.600 me because at least you know what you're chasing and 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.319 why you're chasing it, and every little thing is it's 0:08:55.320 --> 0:09:01.800 a little step forward. Totally. No, I agree. I agree. Okay, 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.040 so you got to Nashville, you had a you had 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.160 Rosie o'donald so that kind of like got you into 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.280 the public eye, which got you noticed by Lyric Street 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.600 Records when you were ten. Yeah, and that's like a 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:18.520 label that Rascale Flats got started on Daisy and then 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:22.040 they signed you at ten. So talk about that as 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:24.320 a ten year old now working with a major label 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.520 record deal, that's a big deal and kind of overwhelming, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.240 but probably not for you, know. I mean, I was 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:33.400 just like, where do I sing? Where do you put 0:09:33.440 --> 0:09:35.280 me somewhere? And whether it be the city or on 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.320 the stage, there was so great with me. I mean 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:41.920 for working with a child, I thought, um, I mean 0:09:41.960 --> 0:09:43.920 even though I was never like one of those little 0:09:44.000 --> 0:09:49.199 annoying kids, running around. I've literally been this same adult, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.840 chill person my whole life. But because you're only twenty five, 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:57.120 but you feel so wise. You do. You have a 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:01.280 just a constant, calm wisdom about you that I did 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.040 not have a tent and I probably don't have that. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:07.839 You're really so chill and calm and like you just 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:12.080 embrace things. Yeah you have to. How do you know 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:18.320 that so young? Um, convincing myself that I don't know anything? 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:22.640 That that works, I think like pretending that you know 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:27.880 everything is not in your favor. So me admitting saying 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:30.840 I'm going to learn something every day. I don't know. Shit, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.440 that's mom and Dolly. But how do you get that? 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.439 I don't know. I think my my parents probably, Yeah, 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:42.120 my mom was very wise. Well, yeah, I'm a humble person. 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:46.079 Speaking of that humble and kind an we talking about that. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.080 For your song, I just se hard. But every time 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.280 it's the sweetest thing I've ever heard. I want. I mean, 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.559 whenever you think about this is where my head went. 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:58.680 Like eventually, even like playing the song for my niece 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.800 or something, my it's I'm just They're gonna come out 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.600 and I'm just gonna continuously play them that song everything. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:11.320 It's the perfect lyric. It's perfect La McKenna, everyone, Lori McKenna, 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.959 humble and kind timmercrossing in it, and it is the best. 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:17.880 I think it's the best song I've ever heard. Yeah. 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:21.160 But yeah, so that mentality my parents definitely like embedded 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.160 at that in my head. My whole family, Like my 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:28.200 sister is, you know, lazy, she's amazing, she's the same way. Yeah. Yeah, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:32.760 mother of the Year, the years, the years. So you 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:34.920 had to record that lyric street and at that point 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.880 your family uprooted from Texas and they said, hey, we're 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:42.000 gonna move with you to Nashville. Yeah. Well, the day 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:47.679 we got the development deal offer, um, it was kind 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:49.440 of it was just kind of emotional, Like me and 0:11:49.480 --> 0:11:53.760 my mom both were crying. It was like, I don't 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:56.760 this last time, like our Judd's moment, Like we're literally 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.080 like making fun of each other about um. So it 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:02.600 was because we like she didn't sing or anything, but 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.800 we were definitely a dream team. Like she she supported 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:10.240 you all the way, all the way. She took me everywhere, Um, 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.160 you know, made sure that I still wanted to do 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.520 it every day. She wasn't a stage mom. She just 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.880 was supporting your dream. Yeah for sure. How cool. Yeah 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.600 it was awesome, So would happened. It's just like overall, 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:23.680 so the family is I just think it's so cool 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.760 that you had a family that was like all about 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:29.280 your passion, like that believed in that stuff. Because some 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.080 people would be like, oh, we're going to just stay 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.679 here and you can go do stuff maybe when you're going, yeah, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.599 when you turn eighteen, do what you want. Yeah, no 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:38.800 they I mean I feel like too. It brought us 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:43.440 closer together, if anything, like our family, um, and also 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:46.800 you know, took us out of you know, a smaller 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.679 town and um and in the best of ways. You know, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:55.160 my brother got to see snow and big tall buildings 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.960 and uh, we got to travel together. And yeah, it 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.400 was it was a good opportunity for everyone. I think. 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:02.920 So you have the older sister and an older brother 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.480 and a little brother and there's four of y'all, yes 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.280 at the third or four, which makes so much sense 0:13:08.480 --> 0:13:13.719 because because I'm like the what's the word, not the 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:19.040 I don't know, the calm one like the referee is think, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.280 I don't know. I think that that's the reason why 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:24.480 I am the way I am, Like I'm very calm 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.440 and will defuse any sort of situation because I've had 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.000 I've been in the middle of both sides, like you 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.240 need to calm down, you need to sit down. So 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:39.480 never you're never causing the I definitely have. But yeah, no, 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.960 most of the time not. I love my siblings. You know, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.200 Lazy Lacey is awesome, She's amazing. Yes, so she moved 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.000 here with us. It was just you and Lazy and 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:53.120 your parents and my little brother brother. Everyone else stayed 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.360 in Texas. Um, which is your one older brother. I 0:13:55.360 --> 0:14:01.880 guess right, Okay, so he stayed. Uh and you know 0:14:02.040 --> 0:14:05.480 she what is she doing with this? Lacey fell in 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.199 love with Nashville. She did, Yeah, she did. She had 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:14.839 a baby fourteen years ago. That's crazy than like help 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.880 not right, I guess raise Yeah, yeah for sure. Oh no, 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:24.400 well it's basically yeah, so your record I fell through 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:29.080 it did well, I basically, I mean we butted heads 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.480 for a while. Um, even then I knew that I 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:36.120 didn't want to do like pop country or yeah, and 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:38.240 not in a bad way, just as a I don't. 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.360 I wasn't going to do that, Like I was very stubborn, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.360 and um, you know, they got it. I mean they 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:49.400 respected it, if anything. And um, shortly after we lost 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:55.000 my dad, um, which was you know, sudden and tragic. 0:14:56.680 --> 0:14:58.400 So it was a year after I got the deal. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:02.360 So I just I needed to go home. I think 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:05.800 we all just needed to like regroup and recharge and 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.120 do some soul searching because I was not in the 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.560 state of mind to like try and figure out who 0:15:10.560 --> 0:15:13.680 I was as an artist at eleven after you know, 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:17.560 having a tragedy. So we went home. We moved back 0:15:17.560 --> 0:15:22.040 and lost my deal, which was for the best. Um, 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:25.480 So how did you when you were home? I mean, 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:29.200 just spending time with family, honestly, Like it's it's very 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:34.560 easy to recharge and think in an environment that we 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:37.640 were raised in because there's literally it's a dear lease, 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.360 it's it's there's nothing in that town, which is my 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:45.080 favorite part. So you go there and you just, you know, 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:48.000 that's how you sold search. I think we're removing yourself 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.360 from like a rat race or a fast paced city. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.640 For me, anyway, it's just like getting in tune with 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.960 your self yep, for sure, and spending time with family. 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.840 It was good for us at the time. Um. And 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:06.800 then I was like thirteen and I started. I mean 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:11.000 I kind of like stopped music for a second. Uh. 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.720 I went to school and was like super normal. Yeah, 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.840 I know, what a weirdo being normal? Creet, that's not 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.920 a good idea. UM, and my mom and I would 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.200 you know, we're talking, and I was unhappy because I 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.760 wasn't seen, because I wasn't being creative and realizing that 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.080 that that's what I needed to do to to heal 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.680 and grieve. Um, I like started writing songs and felt 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.760 like I had something mistake because I was thirteen. Oh no, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.920 for sure, you already lived a big life at thirteen. Yeah, 0:16:43.120 --> 0:16:47.360 well yeah a little bit. So my sister still living 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.560 in Nashville, we all thought it was a good idea 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.320 for me to move with her. Um at that time, 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.920 your mom she was just gonna stay back in Texas, 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.200 right to uproot him again, was you know, just not 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.680 a good idea. So I went back and forth. Me 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.160 and my sister basically raised each other. She's the best 0:17:04.160 --> 0:17:06.520 mom in the world. And how old was she? She 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:13.520 had Rayley, who was like two or so one or 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:16.159 two years old. So I played house, you know, I 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:19.600 would go and write songs and do whatever during the 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.960 day and then go home and play house and she 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:26.440 would go to work you know nights. Yeah, no, she's 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.640 literally I'll always think that lazys ng the mood. Yeah, 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.600 for sure, she's just awesome. Yeah. Why is she's such 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:40.600 an awesome mom? Um? Because she's selfless. She's still fun. 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.800 She's really got that spunk you know. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No, 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:49.720 for sure, she's she's just self worry she was. I mean, 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.960 she's got a million purposes in life that I'm sure 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:57.920 she'll tackle all but um, one of them was how 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:01.720 maternal she is. Like she was she always did that 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.360 with us. You know, I was like her baby doll 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.479 growing up. She was eight when I was born, so 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.560 she literally played house with me. You know, it's full 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:14.399 circle anyway. And then with amazing that I know, I 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.479 love that kids, and it was so was it kind 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:20.240 of fun though when y'all were just two sisters in 0:18:20.280 --> 0:18:23.560 your thirteen now, so I mean, yeah, you could get 0:18:23.600 --> 0:18:25.600 into a lot of trouble if you wanted to. Absolutely 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:27.639 we got into some trouble together. And then when it 0:18:27.680 --> 0:18:29.560 came to the time, she would be like, all right, 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.480 sit your auk down, this is then she would like 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.960 play a mom. You know, she's amazing. But um yeah, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:43.240 so I wrote for a while and um, Trey Bruce 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.479 actually was the first one that got me into writing. 0:18:45.640 --> 0:18:49.280 He's a big hit songwriter and producer. He's written Whisper 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:54.639 My Name to You Can't Lose Me by Faith Hill, Yes, 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:59.280 Faith Everything she is. Um yeah, and introduced me to 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:02.040 like the writing unity, and I just you know, befriended 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:06.560 like basically everyone that was over at Chris Slis where 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.320 we all signed, Like King Billy was your first publishing. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.720 It was King Billy and Chris Jansen and Lucy Sylva's 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:18.879 who are all Osborne or brothers Osborne met Lucy was 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.240 through because I remember that day. Now they're married, which 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.280 is my favorite couple. Lucy Sylvias if you don't know her, 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.320 she's from England and she's a songbird amazing, She's incredible. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.440 She's married to John Oswinne from Brothers Osborne Cree hangs 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:35.800 with a cool group of people. Somehow they let me 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:39.960 because you're a I'm just kidding, umall, and like yeah, 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.760 Chris Jansen and King Billy they were like the biggest 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:44.960 band in town in Nashville firm. Yeah, we were like, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:48.159 you know, I was the female artist and Chris Jansen 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:49.920 was the Mill and then they had their band King Billy. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.840 So I don't know what, just kind of felt like 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:56.200 college for me, you know what I mean, Like I 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:01.879 was taught a lot by um Given John. Oh. You know, 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:05.600 I've listened to great music growing up, from Otiss Ready 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:09.320 to Role Haggard, but he taught me like who Patty 0:20:09.359 --> 0:20:14.000 Griffin was and Darrell Scott and um you know all 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:16.359 those guys. We learned a lot from my friends at 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.359 the time. I mean, I still do. But there was 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.639 inspiring to like get in the writing world of things, 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.440 not knowing that growing up, you know, which is also 0:20:25.440 --> 0:20:27.680 cool because on American Idol you're saying when a Patty 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.040 Griffin song, and it was like I did bring the 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.760 house down. That was It was fun. It was I mean, 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:37.240 that whole experience was freaking nuts up on a mountain, 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.200 up to the mountain, up to the mountain, and then 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:43.320 full circle. Since I know that since Arity interviewed you, yes, 0:20:43.400 --> 0:20:47.520 and then Emily Harris happens to watch American Idol, she 0:20:47.560 --> 0:20:50.719 loves it and she loves you. Yeah, well it's freaking mutual. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.200 That woman's an angel. But the fact that Emily Harris 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.800 watched American Idol. I know a Patty Griffin song, and 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.000 then she tell me what she invited you to do 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:02.400 well is like unbelievable. It is full circle. It's can't 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.399 actually handle it. Tell that whole story because people are 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:08.040 going to die. She and I've become pretty good friends. 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.560 You've become pretty good friends, Emily Harritt, like you have 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.760 her cell phone? I do. I know, it's freaking weird. 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.960 Manad my dog gave me love after her you did so. 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:20.760 I didn't know that. God, I mean, she would actually 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:24.120 love that. She don't. She's obsessed with dogs. The first 0:21:24.160 --> 0:21:26.760 time I met her, I sing at her or for 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:32.080 her pet what's it called? She has that pet? Adoption? 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:38.560 Apt you or I saying at that little benefit concert 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:40.919 or whatever that she asked me to do, and she was, 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.160 you know, so lovely, and we've just befriended each other. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:46.960 Went over to your house like a month ago. I 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:48.600 played on my record just because I was like so 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.679 auntie and anxious to know what she thought because I 0:21:50.720 --> 0:21:55.080 respect her so much. She freaking loved it, which is like, Okay, 0:21:55.119 --> 0:21:58.480 I don't have to go play in traffic now. And 0:21:58.560 --> 0:22:05.159 then that was the ultimate litmus test. Good, yeah, it was. 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:12.520 It was so she called me, uh yeah, yeah. She 0:22:12.560 --> 0:22:15.760 called me a couple weeks ago and asked if um 0:22:15.800 --> 0:22:18.040 I would be their special guests for this around that 0:22:18.080 --> 0:22:21.240 her Petty Griffin and Buddy millerd are doing. It's crazy 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:25.280 full circle. But I've I've obviously you know, known to 0:22:25.440 --> 0:22:27.320 me for a minute, and Buddy Miller, who I love 0:22:27.359 --> 0:22:33.160 as well. But I've never got to watch Petty live, 0:22:33.800 --> 0:22:36.200 much less hang out with her. So we're in around 0:22:36.240 --> 0:22:38.639 with her on a show. I'm playing a song. Yeah, 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:40.840 I don't. I don't even know. Can you even believe 0:22:40.880 --> 0:22:45.960 your life? I mean you were meant to sing? Yeah? No, 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:49.240 I'm very very thankful for the people that I'm around 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:52.520 to materialized dreams though, like okay, you go on American Idol, 0:22:52.560 --> 0:22:55.560 you get second place, like your voice is so good, 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.360 but like to actually now have it be like notice 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.320 on the level it should. And then Emmy Lou Harris, 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:06.800 people that you respect what to do with my hands ever? Um, 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:11.119 for the people that respect, you know, my stuff as 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:12.639 much as I respect them, I don't know, It's just 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:16.840 a crazy thing. It's like I'm very very blessed. I 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.840 think that's so freaking yeah. Okay, so you're in the 0:23:19.920 --> 0:23:22.040 writers I had a segue because we can't forget that 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:24.880 story because it's just love. It's the best. So you're 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:27.600 in the writing community. Now you're hanging out with the 0:23:27.720 --> 0:23:31.000