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Speaker 1: On the Bobby Bones Show. Now, Katie, Katie, I was

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Speaker 1: watching some stuff that maybe you'd put online, some old videos,

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Speaker 1: and any fiddle player that I know like that dominates.

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Speaker 1: They're they're what they do musically, right, most of them

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Speaker 1: if they're a fiddle player, like first and foremost. I

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Speaker 1: I and that, and that is a massive compliment because

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Speaker 1: I went through and we've been playing, you know, some

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Speaker 1: of your music on the Women of Our Country and

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Speaker 1: the Country Top thirty, Like I program both of those shows,

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Speaker 1: and so I've been awesome. I've been a fan of

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Speaker 1: your music, and I've watched some of your videos where

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Speaker 1: you play live. I was just so shocked to see

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Speaker 1: person's thing. I know. You know, it's such an interesting

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Speaker 1: thing because, um, I grew up playing instruments as opposed

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Speaker 1: people always ask like, oh, what all interests do you play? Whatever?

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Speaker 1: It's like I have to categorize them by what I'm

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Speaker 1: fiddle and you know me backumuss of a guitar, but

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Speaker 1: fiddle has just always been my main thing. Like I

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Speaker 1: grew up playing in polka bands and playing fiddle in

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Speaker 1: to be a You're a fiddle player, obviously, but did

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Speaker 1: you not want to be known because there's not a

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Speaker 1: lot of art There's a couple that are really good

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Speaker 1: really important that people focus on what I have to

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Speaker 1: be kind of like a spice that I added, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm Katie, I'm the fiddle chick. You know.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm You're never gonna catch me playing dead

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Speaker 1: one down in Georgia mid set, like please kill me

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Speaker 1: times and I'm over it. But for me, it's like,

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Speaker 1: be I'll never be the fiddle chick the fiddle, and

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Speaker 1: just my musicality is way too deep rooted in my

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Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of like the Lizzo flute thing,

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