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Speaker 1: Now, I love a bit of country music. I think

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Speaker 1: that lots of people probably know that. Growing up in

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Speaker 1: Mount Isa, it's hard not to like country music. But

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Speaker 1: my next guest is an Australian country music legend. She

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Speaker 1: is a twenty one time Golden Guitar winner and has

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Speaker 1: released a new song with James Blundelle. Her name is

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Speaker 1: Sarah Storer and I'm very excited that she is right

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Speaker 1: here in the studio with me.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, good a Katie.

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Speaker 1: I tell you what now, I got a message on

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Speaker 1: Friday morning and it was from you, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: oh my goodness, this is a bit exciting. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: get more exciting than Sarah Stora sending you a message

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Speaker 1: to say she's got a new new trackout.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sorry about that after stalking you there, Katie, but

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Speaker 2: I thought, what's the chances Katie might just play the song?

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Speaker 2: And body, I know you've asked me to come in

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Speaker 2: and yes, so thank you.

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Speaker 1: Well, I just thought, how wonderful that you're living here

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Speaker 1: in the Northern Territory these days, aren't you. Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Dave and the kids and I moved back a

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Speaker 2: couple of years ago, you know, we did. We were

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Speaker 2: here prior to that, and we took off to Aubury

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Speaker 2: to give down South a bit of a go, but

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Speaker 2: it wasn't our place. We just we're happy back up here,

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Speaker 2: and yeah, loving it.

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Speaker 1: And now you've lived in the likes of Camerwheel, You've

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Speaker 1: lived in Catherine, you're a teacher in Catherine, and also

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Speaker 1: in some of the remote communities as well.

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Speaker 2: Were CALKARINGI spent about five years out there, year in Catherine,

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I've lived on the Central Coast for a

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Speaker 2: long time for about twelve years. That was music that

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Speaker 2: was working on and I was single, and then I

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Speaker 2: met Dave up here visiting and so that's what landed

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Speaker 2: me back here, Hobby and you know, pregnant a few

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Speaker 2: months later.

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Speaker 1: And so's your husband a territory boy.

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Speaker 2: Well, no, he's actually a Sydney boy. But ever he

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Speaker 2: was right in the middle of Sydney and all the

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Speaker 2: country borders would come into his school and he see

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Speaker 2: these kids are really, you know, good, good kids, all farmers,

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Speaker 2: and he said that's what he wanted to do, was

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Speaker 2: to go and live out bush, be a farmer or

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Speaker 2: just work on the land. So he's been doing it

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Speaker 2: for twenty something years.

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Speaker 1: How awesome. Like I always think, it doesn't get better

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Speaker 1: than when you meet nice, good kind country people. And

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Speaker 1: you can tell, I reckon when people have grown up

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Speaker 1: in the bush, or when they love living in the

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Speaker 1: bush and love living in places like the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well that's what country music's about too. We often

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Speaker 2: got our ears open for beautiful bush stories about characters

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Speaker 2: and places and and you know, the stories haven't all

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Speaker 2: been sung yet. So it's always a great thing for

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Speaker 2: country music because you're always listening for that next song

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Speaker 2: that hasn't been written.

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Speaker 1: Now, tell me a little bit about this new track

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Speaker 1: that you've written with James Blundell. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So James and I are sharing the stage next year

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Speaker 2: at Tamworth Country Music Festival, and I just thought, oh, look,

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Speaker 2: I'll just give it a go. I'll try and write

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Speaker 2: a song for us that we can get out this

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Speaker 2: year so then we can make it something special for

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Speaker 2: the show next year. So I had a few attempts,

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Speaker 2: so horrible. The songs were horrible. I don't believe what

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Speaker 2: they were. And so I grabbed an old song of

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Speaker 2: his Way out West with James Ray and the Big Kid,

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Speaker 2: and I picked one of my old title Sweet Dreams,

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Speaker 2: and I thought, oh, that that sounds good. Raunchy love affair,

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Speaker 2: and I really liked what I'd written, and I thought,

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Speaker 2: because it's a waste of time, money and a waste

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Speaker 2: of people, sorry, people's ears for three and a half

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Speaker 2: miss minutes listening to a song that I want to

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Speaker 2: listen to. So I really had to believe in the song,

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Speaker 2: and James said yes, so we recorded it and yeah

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Speaker 2: it turned out all right, Well we're.

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Speaker 1: Going to play it in a couple of minutes, but

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Speaker 1: tell me more think you're going to be So you

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Speaker 1: guys are going to be sharing the stage in Tamworth

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Speaker 1: at the Country Music Festival early next year early.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tamworth starts to end of January, sort of mid January,

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Speaker 2: so hopefully it will all go ahead. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: What's it been like over the last couple of years

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Speaker 1: with COVID and you know, trying to be the country

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Speaker 1: music artists that you are and still perform, But it's

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Speaker 1: been such a difficult time.

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Speaker 2: I'd imagine it's been very quiet, and you know, I've

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Speaker 2: been one of the lucky ones, you know, living up here.

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Speaker 2: We just got in time before everything's shut down, so

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Speaker 2: we've had it pretty good up here compared to you know,

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Speaker 2: down South and what a lot of musicians have been

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Speaker 2: through down South. But it's just been quiet. And I

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Speaker 2: think what's hard is every time you go to plan

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Speaker 2: a tour within twenty four hours, that can all come

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Speaker 2: crashing down and you're changing flights, so you're finding band

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Speaker 2: members from the same state because they can't get across border.

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Speaker 2: So it's been difficult for the music industry. But the

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Speaker 2: light is shining kind of ye it was the other day.

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Speaker 2: I don't know about now, But anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's so hard, isn't it, Like you know, things just

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Speaker 1: changed from day to day and you don't know exactly

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Speaker 1: what's going to happen.

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Speaker 2: It's just the unknowing, you know. And just for our family,

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Speaker 2: just travel plans, we've now canceled all everything in your

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Speaker 2: New South Wales, but because we've got to get Harry,

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Speaker 2: one of our boys, a starting boarding school in Brisbane.

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Speaker 2: But we don't want to take all the kids in

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Speaker 2: your New South in case they lock us out of QUEENSLANDA.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's the unknowing is just worried, so you're

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Speaker 2: better off just not taking a risky stake.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, that's how I think, That's how a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are feeling at this point. Now, tell me

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Speaker 1: did you write this song here in the Northern Territory.

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Speaker 2: I did out of Girrowhen. I love that very inspirational

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Speaker 2: place out there.

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Speaker 1: How awesome. And living in the territory.

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Speaker 2: We love it. And Dave's in the cattle industry, so

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Speaker 2: he's back doing what he loves and he knows everyone

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Speaker 2: from everywhere. And I've always loved it up here. Teaching

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Speaker 2: out Bush was my first experience apart from living in

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Speaker 2: Camelwell and experience that remote life. But I just loved it.

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Speaker 2: What a treasure and really glad I I had the

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Speaker 2: courage to go out and do something when I was

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Speaker 2: so young. Yeah, somewhere so remote, it was just a treasure.

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Speaker 2: I loved it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, I'll tell you what. Twenty one golden guitars.

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Speaker 1: Has anyone else won that many? Ever?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? They're very in front. Yeah yeah, I'm trying to.

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Speaker 1: But they're not territories like you are that will claim

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Speaker 1: you to get these days.

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Speaker 2: Yeahah, they really are, but you know so, Yeah you're lucky. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I reckon, I'll be lucky for I ever see another

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Speaker 2: one but hey, I'm happy with twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, you got to be happy with that.

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Speaker 1: You are an amazingly talented woman. And I love my

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Speaker 1: country music and I had to listen to this beautiful song.

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Speaker 1: On the weekend, we'll play it for our listeners now.

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Speaker 1: Sarah Stora, thank you so much for joining us in

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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: We really appreciate