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Speaker 1: M Taking a Walk nash Hi, everyone, this is Sarah Harrelson,

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Speaker 1: your host of Taking a Walk Nashville. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank everyone who has been tuning into the podcast and

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Speaker 1: I hope everyone's new year is going great. Please leave

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Speaker 1: Here with me today is Jamie Harris. She is a

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Speaker 1: Texas born Folk Americana singer songwriter that grew up in

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Speaker 1: a small town outside of Waco.

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Speaker 2: She has released.

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Speaker 1: Three albums, has been a background studio vocalist for Mini Artist,

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Speaker 1: and has written songs for artists such as Ray Wiley, Hubbard,

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Speaker 1: Sam Williams. And her partner Mary Gosha join me in

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Speaker 1: our conversation as we discuss her thriving career here in Nashville.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Taking a Walk Nashville with your hosts singer

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Speaker 3: songwriter Sarah Harrelson.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Jamie, thank you so much for being on Taking

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Speaker 1: a Walk Nashville today. You have a ton of tour

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Speaker 1: dates coming up this year with your partner Mary Goshe.

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Speaker 1: Are you excited for your upcoming shows?

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Speaker 4: I love being on the road.

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Speaker 5: I'm really built for it, Like I was kind of

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Speaker 5: a wild animal and there's something about the container of

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Speaker 5: the road. You know, you wake up in a different

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Speaker 5: place every day, and there's like I love that. It

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Speaker 5: still excites me because I grew up in a small

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Speaker 5: just there for the holidays. It's a completely different place

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Speaker 5: than where I grew up. There's a lot to do,

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Speaker 5: a lot going on, but I kind of grew up

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Speaker 5: there going like I can't wait to see the world,

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Speaker 5: and now I can't believe that my job allows me

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Speaker 5: to do that almost every day of the year.

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Speaker 4: So I'm built for it. I love it. I'm ready

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Speaker 4: to get back out there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's got to be so special being able to

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Speaker 1: explore different cities with your partner, because a lot of musicians,

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Speaker 1: you know, they hit the road, they leave their family

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Speaker 4: It's incredible.

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Speaker 5: If you had told me, like eight years ago that

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Speaker 5: I would end up with a musician, I would.

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Speaker 4: Have told you no way.

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Speaker 5: Songwriter was like, absolutely not, There's no way that I'm

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Speaker 4: And it turns out it's the best thing.

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Speaker 1: So wow, that's amazing. Yeah, you can find all of

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Speaker 1: your upcoming tour dates on your website. I want to

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Speaker 1: talk about your latest album, Boomerang Town. This derives from

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Speaker 1: nostalgia you felt during the pandemic and explores family, addiction,

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Speaker 1: and just ties that bind us together. Would you say

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Speaker 1: you learned more about yourself and your own connection to

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Speaker 5: That the songs are always ahead of me, so like

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Speaker 5: create intense emotion. I mean, there was so much that

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Speaker 5: But I felt like a responsibility to kind of not defend,

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure so many other people can relate to

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Speaker 1: you note that your father was responsible for your musical education,

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Speaker 1: taking you to Austin City Limits where you had a

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Speaker 5: I hadn't thought about that that all of those people

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Speaker 5: My dream was to move to Austin, where Austin City

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Speaker 1: And did you shortly move to Nashville or what made

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Speaker 5: I realized people that I didn't know were coming to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's such a beautiful version of that song.

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Speaker 4: Like, I don't want her to hear it. That's nervist, you.

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Speaker 1: My last question for you, I always ask my guests

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Speaker 5: I love Percy Warner Park. That Red Trail is like,

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Speaker 5: Well, I like being from Texas, like I have very

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Speaker 4: I loved that. It's a really beautiful experience, very meditative

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Speaker 5: So I'm enjoying running out there, and and I'm enjoying

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Speaker 4: And that's a.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, wow, I'm so it's always changing, But for running,

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Speaker 4: But Percy Warner is still the absolute best for a walk.

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Speaker 4: I try.

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Speaker 5: You know, that's so funny you say that. I tried

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Speaker 5: that because I was feeling like really beastly, like I

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Speaker 5: not at this level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It definitely stops you in your track. So are you

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Speaker 1: doing a rock and roll marathon?

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Speaker 4: Your nash Austin Marathon? Actually?

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Speaker 5: Okay, Jemuary fifteenth, and my brother is going to run

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Speaker 5: it with me. I mean, he'll probably be way ahead

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Speaker 5: of me. He's a lot faster than me, but we're

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Speaker 5: going to do it together.

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Speaker 2: Nice. Yeah, that'll be special.

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Speaker 1: You'll Yeah, training on the hills in Nashville will definitely

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Speaker 1: get you.

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Speaker 2: Prepared for that.

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