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Speaker 1: I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taking a Walk podcast

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Speaker 1: music history on foot Listen starting i'd March the fifth,

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Speaker 1: to a new episode with country music singer songwriter Drew

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Speaker 1: Baldridge talking about is independent approach to building an audience.

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Speaker 2: I lost my record deal in twenty nineteen, and coming

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Speaker 2: with that loss of record deal, I lost my booking

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Speaker 2: agent and I also lost my manager.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know what to do.

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Speaker 2: I was living on my credit cards, and first off,

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Speaker 2: I got a girl that I want to marry.

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Speaker 3: I can't even afford a ring. You know. Side this idea,

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Speaker 3: I was like, man, am I still supposed to do music?

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Speaker 3: I'll post on social media. I'll play in anybody's backyard

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Speaker 3: it wants to have me. And I thought I'd get

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Speaker 3: like ten people.

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Speaker 2: Man, I got over twenty some thousand requests, and I

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Speaker 2: ended up going around the country for two years and

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Speaker 2: turning over three hundred people's backyards just bring and that

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Speaker 2: really changed my creative process.

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Speaker 1: Listen starting on March fifth, to Drew Baldridge on the

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Speaker 1: Taking a Walk podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

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Speaker 1: or wherever you get your podcasts.