Hitting the High Notes: Kristen Brown's Star-Making Journey on The Voice

Dive into the fascinating world of Kristen Brown, an exceptional vocalist who is currently rocking The Voice, on this episode of the Mark Haney Show. Join us as we uncover her journey, from her humble beginnings to her memorable performances. Kristen reveals her personal experiences and the significant role her family has played in her success. Discover her insightful views on the music industry and her thrilling experiences of opening for renowned artists. This riveting conversation is filled with inspiration, triumphs, and challenges. And make sure to stick around till the end for a special performance that is bound to leave you inspired! Tune in now!

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Episode Transcript

Mark Haney (00:00):
Yes, this is the Mark Haney show.
Today is going to be a phenomenal day.
You know, this show is all about
entrepreneurship, and today we have
somebody on the show that is a color, an
entrepreneur.
She's entrepreneurial but she's a vocalist
and she's a rising star, and it's what
we're doing here on our show is talking

(00:21):
about winning and how to win, and today we
have Kristen Brown who is winning.
She is now on the Voice, which is a TV show
that is very, very popular, and she is
continuing to march along that path.
Now, what you may not know you may have
heard of Kristen Brown from the Voice, but
what you may not know is that her dad and I

(00:44):
are actually buddies.
I've known him, I've known Kent since
second grade, and when I started my show,
he was sitting right there and he said you
want a radio show, mark?
And I said sure, I do.
How do you do that?
And he said it all up with some other
people for me.
Anyway, long story short, I've known
Kristen a long time and we've seen her

(01:06):
progress.
In the first year we started the show was
in 2015.
And she came on the show as a probably a 17
year old, 15 year old, something like that.
You were in high school with a couple of
other girls and then later you did some.
You'd actually help me with a video for
Riley, my granddaughter, and so we have a

(01:27):
little clip that's going to sort of set up
the show going to play on the monitor
behind us.
So, scott, we roll that clip.
Oh, this is exciting.
And here's Mark, and welcome back.
That song in the background is Friday Night
Light, my new favorite song.

(01:50):
This is so cool.
Well, we are here, honored to have the
girls from Auburn Road here on the show.
We have Kristen Brown, paxton Martin and
Alicia Paulson.
Kristen, is this a business or is this just
you guys doing this for fun?
What inspires you?

Kristen Brown (02:06):
You know it really is a business, but I
mean we love what we do, so that's what
makes it all worth it.
But I mean we, when you start saying when
we started out we thought it was just, you
know, saying you record, you're done.
But there's so much more to it.
Like with writing songs, with you have to
be your own splits for after you write it,
for who gets paid, what.
You have to make sure everyone has their

(02:28):
input in on everything.
There's a lot of opinions and there's just
a lot that goes to it Photoshoots, making
sure everyone has everything together for
whatever you're going to do.

Mark Haney (02:40):
Three and oh say this is on our show.
They say this is like a type machine выпуск.

Speaker 3 (03:37):
Can you turn it up, scott?
Oh, you're insane.
Stay with your friends when everybody's
giving in.

(04:03):
This one's for the girls whoever got a
pocket heart, who pushed the punch of these
stars you're beautiful, no matter how.
This one's for the girls yeah, we're all
the same inside, same inside, someone got a

(04:30):
knife.
This one's for the girls who never had a
broken heart, who pushed the punch of these
stars You're beautiful, no matter how.
This one's for the girls who never had a
broken heart, who pushed the punch of these

(04:56):
stars you're beautiful, no matter how.
This one's for the girls.
This one's for the girls.

Mark Haney (05:06):
This one's for the girls, this one's for
the girls.
Oh, thanks, guys.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
We're in the holiday season and some of my
first gigs were at your family.
Christmas party when I was maybe 10 years
old, I'd come with like little karaoke
tracks and I'd sing at your family parties.
And so to go from that to now being here
and this year being on not just Team Gwen
but also Team Legend on the Voice, like
it's been an absolute dream.

(06:08):
And every step I keep thinking how is it
going to get better?
And it does, and it's so exciting.

Mark Haney (06:14):
So in that last show there was kind of a
twist at the end.
A legendary twist?
Tell us about that.

Speaker 4 (06:22):
Oh my gosh, okay.
So when I knew I was singing this One's For
the Girls Every single time, even in
rehearsal with Wynonna like you saw Gwen
cry, you saw Wynonna cry I would keep
getting emotional during the song one,
because the line of this one's for the
girls who dream with everything they have.
That's been me my entire life.
I want it so bad and I love music and I

(06:42):
love country music, and so it was just
being there.
I'd get kind of caught up in the moment of
being in that dream.
And then I would also think about, you know,
all the young girls that I've been able to
teach, like Riley and all of her friends,
and some of you guys who are out there
today.
Oh, my goodness, like I.
Just that's who I would think about
whenever I got to the chorus and there was
a little girl in the front row who was

(07:02):
their age and I saw her and I was like,
okay, I have to sing it to her.
I thought maybe I'd sing it in the camera,
but I saw her and I was like the message is
for her, and so I sang that breakdown
chorus to her and then I broke down.
So it all happened at the same time and so,
you know, I didn't know how it would go.
And then, when she announced that Cara had
won and she was so deserving Cara's

(07:23):
phenomenal I thought, I really thought I
was going home.
I didn't think there were any steals
available.
We all kind of tried to guess, you know
what's available, who could steal, who's
not, and as far as I knew, they were gone.
So when I was in the middle of giving my
grand son off, that was when he pressed the
button, and the look on my face is because
I had no idea.
I thought that was it, and so to then hear

(07:43):
that sound go off, see the steal, it just
hits you.
I'm here for another week.
I get to sing again and I get to fight to
sing again and again and again, and so it
was insane.

Mark Haney (07:53):
I cried the rest of the day, but so amazing,
well, very inspirational for all of us.
Again to watch it again, it's still
inspirational.
What did the little girl in the front row
that you were singing to?
What was her reaction?

Speaker 4 (08:07):
Oh, that's what made me cry.
Okay, so I walk over to her and she's just
looking up at me like I can't believe she's
making eye contact with me.
Is that what's happening?
And then her mom started to cry.
And all of my students' moms know if the
moms cry, I'm a goner, like if I'm done.
And so the mom started to cry.
The little girl was so excited and then I
just lost it.

(08:28):
I couldn't keep it together anymore.

Mark Haney (08:29):
Oh well, you are here, you're back in town,
and so I understand, though, that you teach,
but you've had mentors along the way, up to
and including here on the Voice, so maybe,
if you don't mind, sharing with us, maybe
the importance of mentors, who has been

(08:51):
really instrumental in your career, and
even on the Voice?

Speaker 4 (08:57):
Yeah, I mean, I think that having a mentor
for anything that you do, whether it be
music, business, anything they're really
important to have, because, I mean, we're
not meant to walk any of these paths by
ourselves If we're always meant to have
somebody to help show us our way, and
that's what we all aspire to do for the
next people behind us.
And so, you know, even right now, as I was
prepping to go on the Voice, local musician

(09:19):
Kevin Marcy he's been amazing, Kevin's done
everything, and so I would send him a
message and say is this normal?
Should I be doing this?
What should I do?
And he's been a great help with that.
You know, even all of my coworkers where I
work at Voice Academy were all musicians.
We all have each other's back.
And my boss she's known me since I was
eight years old.
She was who did this for me, and so I would

(09:41):
text her while I'm at the show, going am I
doing this right?
Does this sound okay?
And like my own vocal coach that I have now,
jamie Templeton, it takes a village to do
it.
And so then, going into the Voice to have
those mentors be Gwen Stefani is really a
sentence, I mean.
And so that was phenomenal and I feel like
the first moment I met Gwen, I felt like

(10:02):
I'd known her for a million years.
She just has that heart and that energy
about her and she would always say, like
I'm here for you, like it is part of a TV
show, but we're gonna give you the best
performance that we absolutely can and I
wanna give you all the information that I
can give you.
And that's just been the most amazing gift
to hear what she has to say, cause she
knows quite a bit.

(10:22):
So it's something that I'm really grateful
for the mentors that I've had and I really
hope that I am doing half of that for the
students that I get to meet.

Mark Haney (10:31):
Well, Martina McBride, when she heard you
sing that song or helped you, what was that
so?

Speaker 4 (10:38):
the Martina McBride thing.
That kind of surprised me.
So I had just watched the episode and I was
on Instagram, as you are, and I just opened
Martina McBride's page.
I was like, oh, she has a story up.
I wonder what that is.
And it's the video of the song.

Mark Haney (10:53):
Oh, wow.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
And I was like, okay, cool, so Martina saw
it.
That's awesome, cause you know I love
Martina.
I've always looked up to her and I really
look up to Carrie Underwood and Carrie
Underwood looks up to Martina.
It's a family tree of music and so, to see
that it was super surreal, I called my dad
right away.
I'm like look at Martina's Instagram page.

Kristen Brown (11:11):
That's awesome.

Mark Haney (11:12):
Okay.
So, yeah, you teach lessons.
Yeah, riley, my granddaughter took lessons
there for a while.
But you, here in the audience we have some
of your other people that you know that you
some students talk to us about that and
does teaching it?
When you teach, obviously you're getting
something out of that, but does it make you
feel like you need to be better if you're

(11:35):
going to be teaching it?
I mean, or something like that, like you
learn through the teaching too.

Speaker 4 (11:39):
It's really fun because with each
individual student comes in, while I hope
that I'm able to teach them as much as I
can, they also teach me a lot because none
of them are the exact same.
I always say I don't teach in a cookie
cutter way.
Everybody's different and so it's just one
of those things where, when they come in,
they tell me what they want to do.
I try to help them avoid the road bumps if

(11:59):
they can, and try to help them through all
the hard parts and make the easy parts even
more special to them.
Let them know that they're extremely
special, that their talent is unlike
anybody else's, no matter the level, no
matter what they do.
They're their own unique person and they
need to be proud of that.

Mark Haney (12:14):
Yeah, and, by the way, to the studio
audience that is behind me right now,
there's going to be Q and A for you at the
end, so be thinking of a thinking her dad
will want you to try to stump her.
So try to come up with a really tough
question for Kristen.
Okay, so everybody's going to need one.
If you're shy, I'm calling on you first.

(12:35):
Oh, it's like school.
I love it.
So, highlights of the career Okay, we got
the voice.
This is, I assume this is the highlight.
This is like, but you're still going.
You're on this ascent.
You're a rising star, but I know you opened
for Toby Keith.
One time, stacy and I and our friends went
out and watched you Talk to us about some
of these milestones along this career that

(12:56):
got you to this.

Speaker 4 (12:57):
Yeah, I mean I've been really, really lucky
with the things I've been able to do.
I remember opening for Toby Keith, for
Rascal Flats, morgan Wallen, like all those
guys.
Kind of back pre pandemic was when all that
was happening and really able to gig a lot
was on a radio tour as the shutdown was
happening, and so that was cool, to kind of
get a taste of what that was.
You know, had a song on CMT which was

(13:19):
unreal, and then the pandemic hits and all
music shuts down.
But then I actually self produced my first
Christmas song and it was the first song
that I did completely on my own, and so I
hired all the musicians, I wrote the song
myself, I edited the music video, got it
all distributed.
I really I tried to go the business route.
I went I'm gonna figure out how this works

(13:39):
and I'm gonna do the research and I'm gonna
get it done.
And the idea for it came probably September
30th.
The song was out by the day after
Thanksgiving.
And so everything was done.
It was a very quick turnaround, but it's
something that I look back on, and it's not
even just that I'm so proud of the song,
which I am, but I'm proud that I was able
to do all of that myself.

(14:00):
I was able to figure it out and be the
business woman that way.

Mark Haney (14:03):
Well, I remember I was going through my
text when I texted you earlier and did you
do some of that at Pottery World right down
the street?
Did you do a part of the video?

Speaker 4 (14:11):
down there.
Oh my gosh, so the video is actually filmed
on Black Friday, so the day that the song
came out.
It was 30 minutes before Pottery World
opened.

Kristen Brown (14:19):
They said you have 30 minutes to get this
done, I think I connect you with the
Pottery World people you did.
It was amazing, it was funny.
My dad.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
I was like I really love this set that
they've got going over at Pottery World.
I wonder if I could get in.
He goes.
You know who to call, right?
Did you call Mark?
I was like you're right.
But yeah, it was 30 minutes before they
opened.
They said you have this much time to get it
done.
We shot it super quick.
There's even a piece of.
If you watch the video, there's a piece of
black cardboard behind the fireplace

(14:44):
because we forgot that you could see
through it into the next set.
So we're like, okay, we have to make it
look like a living room.

Mark Haney (14:49):
But it was amazing.
That's awesome.
Okay, so I'm imagining the life of a
emerging star is chaotic, but I'm also
imagining you connect to an audience.
I'm trying to think like what the most
rewarding piece of this is?
The way you connected to that little girl
and connecting to an audience.

(15:12):
How would you describe that as relates to
sort of this notoriety that's emerging?
What's the most special part of this thing?

Speaker 4 (15:18):
I mean everybody's goal when they go into
wanting to have a career in music.
You know we all have the cliched, the
cliche dream of we wanna be like the Taylor
Swift and the Beyonce.
We would love that level of a career but
truly, at the end of the day, outside of
making music and loving that aspect of it,
I would rather have a bunch of interactions

(15:38):
at my shows, getting to be one-on-one with
the people who are touched by my songs, who
relate to my songs.
That's your community, versus just being
widely known a little bit.
I'd rather have those personal, intimate
moments and that's why I love to perform
live and I really love to get to talk to
people after shows.
I maybe talked to them too long, but it's
fine.
It's one of my favorite things.
That's what makes it worth it.

Mark Haney (16:00):
Okay, so I wanna dive a little bit deeper
into what inspired you as a young person or
what guided you, and I know a father's
relationship is unique.

Speaker 4 (16:16):
My dad is fantastic.
I mean, both my parents are so supportive
in terms of my music and they always have
been.
And it's been really fun because with my
dad being in bass fishing country music and
bass fishing practically the same thing.
It's the same world and so, but it was fun
because you know my dad doing his radio
show with media nonstop.
I was able to really start to do media

(16:37):
training at nine years old and he would
help me learn how to not be afraid of a
microphone, how to reiterate a question in
your answer, how to really go about all the
little things as I was growing up.
So I got to grow up in it and grow up in
the confidence of knowing how to do it and
having just.
I had parents who would pick me up every
time it didn't go well and say, okay, it's
all right, we can make it better, it's

(16:58):
gonna be fine next time, but I truly have
the most amazing support system.

Mark Haney (17:01):
So we talked about your dad.
Give me an example of what your mom will do
to pick you up or support you in some way.

Speaker 4 (17:08):
My mom is my biggest cheerleader oh my gosh.
So, like where my dad is always like you
know, you're doing a great job he'll give
me more of the constructive criticism.
My mom is the one who, without a doubt,
every single time, is like I love it, it's
great, I support you, like, whatever
decision you make.
So they're a great combo deal, cause, like
my dad sees it from the business side and
my mom goes off of what does she feel from
the music, and so it's really cool to be

(17:28):
able to have both of those perspectives.

Mark Haney (17:30):
Yeah, and I've known your.
Like I mentioned, I've known your dad for
since second grade.
Your mom I've known.
I didn't know her as well, but they lived
around the court.
Your mom and her family lived around the
corner.
I think they still live in that.
She still lives in that house, your grant,
her husband was the umpire of my little
league and he had a.
Really I don't know if you remember him

(17:53):
well, cause I know he's not alive anymore,
but he had a very loud demeanor when it
comes to ringing somebody up when they
struck out.
He did.
I didn't like the sound of that when I
struck out.
He probably never did that to you, but he
was known in our circles as you know,
somebody that was a tough umpire.

Speaker 4 (18:13):
Very much and he was so funny because his
whole thing was.
He supported my music like no other, but he
was absolutely terrified of me going into
the music business.
He was like it's scary out there.
You're not wrong, but I love this so much
and he would, he would get on board.

Mark Haney (18:27):
So and I think today's the anniversary of
your dad's parents death.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Yeah, same day, different years.
It's so crazy.
Yeah, I'm actually wearing her necklace
today too.
That's funny.
You say that.

Mark Haney (18:40):
Wonder what they would be, what they're
thinking Over the moon?

Speaker 4 (18:43):
over the moon.
I mean it's so funny because we all, my
cousins and I we all talk and I'm a
spitting image of my dad's mom and so
everyone's always like, oh well, you
probably would have been the favorite
because I was the only one that she didn't
really get to meet.
And so they're like it would have been
Kristen, of course it would have.
And then, you know, I did get to meet my
grandpa cause I was born early and so I got

(19:04):
to.
He got to meet me right before he passed,
and so I just know they would be front row
living for this.
They would have been yelling when they
thought that I was going home on.

Mark Haney (19:14):
Monday night.
Well, I think your your dad's mother yeah,
she's more stern, but her dad Bill.
He was a base little late coach for us and
just the nicest guy in the world.
I think he would be like super supportive
Maybe like your mom oh absolutely.

Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah.

Mark Haney (19:30):
Okay, so I want to open it up to our
audience, hey guys, and there are I don't
know 15 people in our audience.
It just feels like a Taylor Swift concert,
cause there's a lot of young girls here.
We got Rocco in the front row though.
Rocco, you want to start us off, rocco,
with a question?
You got a question.
You don't have a question?
I sure don't.
What's your razor hand in?
All right, stacey's got a question.

(19:50):
Have you been recognized in public?

Speaker 4 (19:52):
from your parents.
You know it's so funny I haven't my parents
have which is really, which is something
else.
They're like, oh, your daughter's on the
boy.
I was like I did all the work.
What the heck?
I was actually shopping with one of my best
friends a couple of weeks ago and we had
been through a few stores in downtown.
Sack out of nowhere she just goes.
You know, I'm really disappointed in our

(20:13):
town watching NBC, cause we've been in four
stores and no one's noticed.
I was like it's fine, we're good.
So not yet, but I don't know, maybe what
it's coming.

Mark Haney (20:23):
What's it feel like, though?
To have a fan club building and emerging.

Speaker 4 (20:28):
It's so cool because it's I mean, I've been
really lucky to have my fan base locally
from my hometown and that's a love that is
unreal.
But it's cool to have people from all over
the country now messaging me and saying how
like this one's for the girls had they
related to that.
I have a lot of high school girls who are
messaging me saying that it touched them
and affected them, and so that part's been

(20:49):
really, really fun.

Mark Haney (20:50):
That's great.
Who else has a question?

Kristen Brown (20:52):
All right, yeah, what moment in your life
did you think like wow, I meant to sing.

Mark Haney (20:57):
I'm gonna repeat that question too, just
for the podcast, because I don't think they
heard you.
What moment in your life and I didn't hear
the rest of it either did you, Did I?

Kristen Brown (21:06):
realize that I had to sing that that was my
thing, oh, that you had to sing.

Speaker 4 (21:08):
That's a really good question, first of all,
10 out of 10.
You know the joke answer that I always give,
which is kind of still half true when I
realized I couldn't kick a ball or play any
sports.
We were really limited on what we could do
at that point.
But you know, I always I don't know what it
was.
I always grew up loving to sing and to make
music and my mom, even in a baby book when

(21:30):
she was pregnant with me, she says every
time I play music she gets really into it.
I think she might be a musician or a
producer or something.
So it's weird that she put that down.
But yeah, so the Disney princess songs got
me hooked, and then you know, taylor Swift
after that.

Mark Haney (21:43):
So here we are.
You did musical theater too, didn't you?

Speaker 4 (21:45):
I did love musical theater.
I did the princess party birthday thing for
a while, so I got to keep doing that as a
job while still singing country music.
It was.
It was a great time.

Mark Haney (21:55):
Sounds like a great job.
Okay, who else has got a question?
Okay, yeah, right.

Kristen Brown (22:00):
Is there good?

Speaker 4 (22:00):
food backstage.

Speaker 3 (22:02):
Good food backstage.

Speaker 4 (22:03):
Oh my gosh, okay, so they have these
breakfast burritos that okay, I'm going to
let you guys in on a little secret.
So they would make these breakfast burritos
before we would go on stage and there were
people who would take a couple extras and
they'd keep putting them in their purse and
we'd eat on them for a couple of days.
Or leading up to being able to actually go
on the show, cause when you go, do any of
your filming with your coach, they'd also

(22:23):
have those breakfast burritos and you'd
just watch people loading up those veggie
burritos in their bag and then just putting
it on their shoulder and leaving, and
they're eating it for at least a week.

Mark Haney (22:30):
It was great.
That's cool, great question.
Yes, I've been the back there.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Who's your favorite coach?

Mark Haney (22:37):
Favorite coach.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Well, now, I have two.

Speaker 4 (22:38):
That seems so wrong to choose.
They were all.
You know.
They're all so, so nice.
At this point I've spent the most time with
Gwen, but then, on the same hand, john
saved my life from having to come home, so
I feel like it's an impossible choice.
They're all really amazing.
I just you know I have to stick with my two,
but Nile and Reba are so incredibly nice as

(22:59):
well.
You know, nile's been one of my biggest
cheerleaders on the show and he's not even
my coach, so you got to love them.

Mark Haney (23:05):
Well, you can tell, like when Reba, even on
that video there, but before too, on the
previous show, you could tell by the look,
the look on in Reba's eyes, how much she
respected you.
And yeah, thank you.

Speaker 4 (23:16):
She's so kind, and then I mean to have the
Queen of Country music.
When I did my blind audition, what I
remember I was a little blurry because I
was so nervous, but she told me I did the
Carrie Endwood song, justice.
I was like that's all I needed.
I can go home now.
Make please, let that air so I can make
that my ringtone.

Mark Haney (23:32):
Well, gwen just played locally.
I saw her on a billboard in Rockland the
other day.
Did you go see her or connect with her when
she was in town, or can you talk about that?
So here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
I wasn't here.

Mark Haney (23:44):
Oh.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
I was in Oklahoma playing Reba's restaurant.
Oh really, Jordan Rainer from.
Team Reba so it's so funny Everyone was
like your team, gwen, I'm sure you went and
you, you saw her.
I was like, no, I was in a Toca, oklahoma.
But I mean, as she gets a chance to come
back, I'd love to see her and chat with her
and watch one of her shows Because, you

(24:05):
know, I mean it's Gwen Stefani.
I want to watch that happen, but I didn't,
I couldn't, I didn't want to be like, hey,
gwen, what's up?
Like I don't know.

Mark Haney (24:12):
She's really great.
Yeah, your mom and dad probably want a
backstage pass, oh of course they did,
absolutely.
All right, any more questions?
Yeah, jill.

Kristen Brown (24:21):
Well, I did go see Gwen, as she was back.
I have no doubts it was so ridiculously fun.

Mark Haney (24:26):
We're so proud of you.

Kristen Brown (24:27):
Thank you Say.
I got to see you when you were with Auburn
Road, when you were staying here.

Mark Haney (24:32):
Yes, oh my gosh, that's right.
Yeah, there's another event.
I forgot about that and, by the way, this
is Joe Galdos speaking, so make sure I'll
repeat a little bit, just because the mic,
the mic want to make sure the mic picks it
up.

Kristen Brown (24:43):
How can we support you as your community?

Mark Haney (24:45):
Oh.

Kristen Brown (24:45):
Is this show live?

Speaker 4 (24:47):
Like are you using?
Ok, so some of the show is pre-filmed, some
of it's pre-filmed and some of it's live.
Right now the show's on hiatus.
Everybody goes home after playoffs.
The PAs get to go on vacation, they get to
do whatever they want to do, and then
everybody regroups for lives, and so right
now we're going into playoffs.
The playoffs have already been filmed.
I know all the things.

Mark Haney (25:07):
Isn't that?

Speaker 4 (25:07):
crazy.
I know I've had to know Since I got back
from.
Well, once I got back from filming
everything when the show went on hiatus, I
just had to know that I was team legend and
not say anything.
That was crazy.

Mark Haney (25:19):
Yeah, I could only imagine.

Speaker 4 (25:21):
It's a really hard secret.
I felt like Hannah Montana forever.

Mark Haney (25:25):
I was like, oh, they can't know.

Speaker 4 (25:27):
But you know, the best thing right now is
I'm loving getting to come out and perform
for my community.
A lot of people do think the show is live,
so whenever I'm trying to get gigs going on
out here, they're like you're not here,
you're there.
I am very much here, so I would love to
keep performing.
Get to vote on the next one.
That's what we can get.
My vote party is going.
Yes, so the lives are voting and then the
playoffs.

(25:47):
It's up to our coach still.
So everybody pressure John.

Mark Haney (25:52):
Is there anything beyond, let's say, on
digital media or voting, that you could use
from your community?
That was sort of Jill's other half, of
course, you know I mean the main thing
right now.

Speaker 4 (26:03):
Going into Christmas time, I would love if
everybody could play my Christmas song
support your local musicians.

Mark Haney (26:09):
You can buy the Christmas song, you can
stream it at your Christmas parties.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
It's a bit of a cheer drinker, so prepare.

Mark Haney (26:15):
There's one.
What's the name of the song?

Speaker 4 (26:16):
It's called Christmas Spirit.
The music video is up now.
I'm only 6,000 views away from it being
100,000 views, so I'm hoping to cross that
threshold this year.

Mark Haney (26:26):
Maybe not right this minute, but would you
be up for singing something on this show?
Absolutely so I'll put that in your mind,
in case it's the Christmas song or
something else that you might want to sing.
Obviously, there's no.
Well, you've got a couple of your students.
Maybe they could be your background singers.

Speaker 4 (26:38):
Yes, it's happening, no pressure.

Mark Haney (26:40):
But we got this and you know it's fun
actually.

Speaker 4 (26:42):
Ooh, I haven't said this anywhere.
It could be fun.
So then I have the Christmas song that's
out now, and so I'm hoping people will
listen to that and support me come to live
shows.
But at the top of the year I'm actually
releasing my very first mainstream single,
so it's not gonna be a holiday song, it's
gonna be one that you can play all year
long, but I just took pictures of the cover
art for all that last week.

(27:03):
It's going literally in an hour to go
record the song of the backing tracks all
Luke Bryan's band.
It's been in the works for a while, but
yeah, so when that comes out we should
definitely all meet up again.

Mark Haney (27:15):
We'll have another one of these.
I love it, though.
Perfect Now is it a breakup song?
You mentioned Taylor Swift earlier and
she's got a lot of breakup songs.
From what I hear, she does.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
You know, just one or two really is what I
can think of this one.
It's fun.
The song idea actually came from I'm a big
fan of the TV show Nashville and so I was
watching it and there was a part of the
storyline I just really liked and I thought
there needs to be a song kind of about this,
and so that's where that song came from.
It wasn't even like my own personal
experiences, but I always have fun writing

(27:44):
from TV and movies.

Mark Haney (27:46):
So it's probably get a little bit of a love
song.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
I don't know.
You're gonna have to wait and see oh secret
love it.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
I'll start teasing it soon, okay.

Mark Haney (27:53):
I love it.
Okay, any other questions from the audience?
Yes, go ahead.
What?

Speaker 4 (27:57):
inspired you to join the voice, oh so.

Mark Haney (28:00):
What inspired her to join the voice?

Speaker 4 (28:01):
It's really funny.
So I actually had tried out for season 23.
It didn't go well.
I submitted an audition and I got a no
really really fast and I took it kind of
hard, but I thought you know what it's fine,
I'll try again another time.
And on my 24th birthday last year, an ad
came up on my Instagram.
I feel like Instagrams really should
sponsor this at this point, because I

(28:22):
mentioned them a lot.
So an ad came up and it was promoting the
open call and there was gonna be one on my
birthday and I thought I don't have to get
dressed up twice, let's just knock this out
and see what, like I don't lose anything in
trying.
Only thing I could do is gain something
from it.
And I submitted the audition and it worked.
And then I did a few more preliminary

(28:43):
rounds and I found out at the beginning of
the year of this year that I would be
getting a blind audition and I had to be
really quiet about it.
I found out my song in May, had to be quiet
about it and I could announce it in
September.

Mark Haney (28:57):
So the build up the application or the
audition tape or whatever, and then it's
still really competitive because there must
be thousands of people competing with you.

Speaker 4 (29:08):
I never know what they're looking for.
You know, every season's different, and so
I had kind of hoped, with Reba being a
coach, that they'd lean into that country a
little bit, and so the song that I sang for
my first audition was Stand by your man,
and it was just one that I was like yeah,
that's a little classic.
I was like you know what I'm gonna give
them, that classic country with the Keri
Underwood belts that I love to do.
And so that's what I submitted and it ended

(29:28):
up working.
I got sick for the second round of
preliminary auditions.
We still made it through.
I don't know what happened but, it worked
out.
So yeah, if you guys see it on Instagram,
go for it, you got this.

Mark Haney (29:39):
That's awesome.
Okay, what else?
Yeah, Rocco's got a question.
Now he found one Like where's the voice
like at?

Speaker 4 (29:47):
So the voice is at the universe.
You know where Universal Studios is, so
it's on the Universal lot.
So whenever we would drive to the show we
could see the Hogwarts Castle.
I didn't even see that until Battles.
We were there for how many times during
blinds and someone pointed it out.
Is it?
That's the Hogwarts Castle?

Mark Haney (30:03):
That's kinda cool.
So that's Southern California right, yeah,
so it's not a quick flight from here.

Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, it's only an hour.
So it was funny.
We'd actually everybody from the show,
we're all from different parts of the
country and for the first little bit, when
we got back for Battles, I was so tired and
I didn't know why and I was just like
walking around.
I'd leave my room pretty late and I told
everyone I'm exhausted and they go, it's
okay, it's that jet lag.
And I was like, yeah, it's the jet lag from

(30:28):
Sacramento to Southern California.
You're right, you got me.
So I lean into that hoping.

Mark Haney (30:34):
Did you make any close friends while you
were here?
I?

Speaker 4 (30:36):
made a lot of really good friends.
That's the really fun part about this
season especially.
Everyone always says we're a family, but we
really are.
You live with these people for months at a
time and they're the only people in the
world that know exactly what you're going
through.

Mark Haney (30:49):
Who's the weirdest one?

Speaker 4 (30:51):
Oh well, you know, just because she's one
of my very best friends, I can pull her
like she's not weird, she's the funniest
person I've ever met.
I'm really close with Jordan Rainer of Team
Reba, with the shades and the hat.
She's one of my really really good friends.
And then Dylan Carter, also from Team Reba.
I had a lot of Team Reba friends.
Dylan Carter was also a really really good
friend of mine.
He still is.

(31:12):
Yeah, it's so much fun because then they're
all like your neighbors.
I said it was the closest thing probably to.
I didn't go to college, go to college, but
I thought that might be the closest thing.
It was where everyone's coming over into
your room and then going oh, but I have an
early film day tomorrow.
Oh, I'm in the afternoon.
Well, let's get dinner after.
Like it just felt cool.

Mark Haney (31:29):
That's awesome.
Okay, other questions?

Kristen Brown (31:31):
Yeah, ash, so we're living in like a dorm
style living experience.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
We are in a hotel, so we're hotel living.
Yeah, we were the sweet life of Zack and
Cody for real for a little bit, but it was
so much fun.
You know it becomes your home.
It becomes your home away from home.
You know where everything is, you know
everything about it, and so you all just
get to hang out by the pool together, get
to know each other, go out to dinner and it
was funny.
The majority of the time we didn't even
talk about music, we just talked about what

(31:56):
your life was back home.

Mark Haney (31:58):
Well, it sounds like it's really really fun,
but there has to be some part that is like
not fun or super stressful.

Speaker 4 (32:04):
I mean, you are singing for your life every
single day.
And so your main thing is you're wanting to
keep you're not just your vocal health, but
your actual health.
You know, I got a little under the weather
the week of blinds and that was terrifying
to me and it was really just because of
stress.
I mean, you want it so bad?
Luckily it was all really supportive

(32:24):
environment, even my parents.
They'd say I want to make sure you're
enjoying this and I'll say I am, but I am
stressed out all the time.
But then once you get on the stage you can
kind of channel those nerves down.

Mark Haney (32:37):
How do you channel them?
Do you have a breathing technique or
something else you do, cause we all you
know when you ever we have to get up in
public speak, or something like that, we've
got to do something to be ready.

Speaker 4 (32:49):
You know, during blinds I decided the
chairs were empty until they proved me
otherwise, cause you just see the back of
the chairs, I was like there's no one in
them.
But if they turn around, then, great,
awesome Proved to me that there's someone
in there.
And so that was my strategy for blinds.
I actually would try to not look at them,
and then I'd like use my peripherals and
I'd see Gwen Stefani and I was like cool
and I walked the other way and then I was

(33:10):
like I looked over and I saw Reba and you
hear in the in my blind audition, you just
hear me kind of go like what I'm singing.

Mark Haney (33:16):
That would be that time.

Speaker 4 (33:19):
But then even for battles, it's just you.
You do dress, rehearsals and stuff.
So I try to visualize everything and go.
Okay, visualize standing on the stage,
visualize walking out there, and every time
I would my heartbeat would go really fast.
Just visualizing it, you'd be like and so
then, by the time I got there, I didn't
feel that anymore, which was interesting.
But then this one's for the girls.
I was just like don't cry, don't cry, don't

(33:40):
cry, and that didn't work.

Mark Haney (33:41):
Oh yeah, well, I mean, it's such an it can
be such an emotional song, but you played
through the emotion without you know having
it affect your voice.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Thank, you, oh my gosh, in a negative way
to me it was like probably helpful.
Oh my gosh, it was the.
It was so difficult because I knew I was
going to cry.
I was really hoping I didn't.

Mark Haney (34:02):
but that's what I was thinking when you
were just singing a second ago.
I thought I was going to cry.

Speaker 4 (34:06):
Yeah, you know it's something about that
song.
Martina knew what she was doing.

Mark Haney (34:09):
Yeah, yeah, any other questions, anybody
who hasn't asked one yet?
But keep going.
Who wants to ask?
Anyone want to make sure?
Okay, yeah, go ahead, isabel.
When was the last time?

Speaker 4 (34:18):
that you filmed.
Oh, and the last time we filmed, I want to
say the end of filming, and I can say this
because this was like you could get tickets
to go when it was in the time.
I want to say it was filmed end of
September, I think it was.
I think that was when it was.
We all came home in October.

Mark Haney (34:36):
Okay, not too long yeah.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
Not too long.

Mark Haney (34:38):
Yeah, right.

Speaker 4 (34:40):
Do they provide the clothes or do you?
This is my favorite question and everybody
always asks.
So some of the pieces for when we're
meeting with our coaches, some of those are
ours.
So when I met with Gwen for my battle, that
was my whole outfit.
I was very proud of it.
But otherwise they do shop for you.
I wish that was in my closet already.
Most of that was for blinds.

(35:01):
It was the only thing that's not mine was
the shirt.
But for battles and the knockouts and then
going into playoffs, those outfits they do.
You give them kind of a vision board of
what you like and then they they buy you
all the clothes and it's the best day of
your life.
You look at a rack and you just try on
clothes all day.
It's really fun.

Mark Haney (35:17):
Are there so you get the clothes?
Are there other kinds of sponsors, sort of
opportunities that you get?
That is like almost like fringe benefits.

Speaker 4 (35:27):
You know that'd be really cool.
But mainly, you know we just, we go in, we,
they dress us for everything, but then it's
really just back and forth.

Mark Haney (35:35):
You have to get back to clothes.

Speaker 4 (35:37):
No, oh, good it's so fun and it's so funny
cause there's a closet at my parents house
right now that has that shirt.
It has the dress that I wore in battles.
It has the pantsuit that I wore in
knockouts, it has the outfit I'm not going
to reveal for playoffs and it had my Gwen
sweatshirt and my John jacket.
But I had to hide the John jacket cause no

(35:58):
one knew yet, so it's all just like locked
away.

Mark Haney (36:01):
But I'm looking back there for Elvia.
Where's she at?
Oh, there, she is, right there.
You don't have a question, oh yeah.

Speaker 4 (36:18):
You know, um, I love that just from the
Prospect of a parent, but also, like as a
teacher it's kind of what I try to think
about it when I go into helping the kids
what, how can I help make their parents job
easier going into this?
Um, the best piece of advice I can give is
make sure you're surrounding your, your kid,
with people who you trust and that you love,
and that you get really Good vibes from.

(36:40):
That's the most important thing, because
that's gonna help shape who they are, not
just as an artist but as a person, and so
you want to make sure you're surrounding
them with people that believe in them, that
give them the right advice that pushed them
to be better at their craft, and who are
honest with them about their craft.
Um, and just making sure, like they, they
know that they love it, that they know who
they are, because this business has a

(37:02):
tendency of trying to tell you who you are,
and so if you go into it knowing who you
are and the music you want to make and the
message you want to send, there's really
nothing that can stop you then then just as
on, from the parent side, supporting them
and being there when inevitably they will
fall down every now and then.
But you know, that's the differences, the
ones that make it get back up.

Mark Haney (37:23):
But being there for them is the best thing
and there's people that Love to sing and
that you that I'm sure you've taught over
the years that that love it, want to do it,
but they're maybe not as gifted are there.
Are there areas to steer them within
entertainment or within, let's call it, the
industry that can be real productive for

(37:43):
them?

Speaker 4 (37:43):
You know it's so funny.
I just had this conversation with the
student, not even 24 hours ago, because
they were talking to me.
They're a little younger and they were
talking to me about what they wanted to do
and I told them you know, everybody wants
to be the Beyonce, everybody wants to be
the Taylor Swift and sell out the stadiums,
but Realistically, there's only a small
amount that can do that part, but there's a

(38:04):
huge amount that can write the songs, that
can be a part of a team that writes the
songs, that can produce the songs.
We need more women producers like.
We need that out there.
The men are fantastic.
We need more of the women.
You can write songs, you could produce them.
You could be a videographer for music
videos you can like.
There's so much.
You can be a stylist for the entertainment
industry you can like.

(38:25):
You could shop music.
You could be in radio.
You could do anything.
There's so many avenues for it.

Mark Haney (38:30):
Well, in terms of the, the men in let's
talk country music for a second.
Is that more dominated by men?
Because you hear about Taylor Swift and
she's obviously a Super star, maybe bigger
than any of the guys, yeah, but there's.
There's, from a quantity standpoint,
there's more guys with popular songs or
more popular men's songs.

Speaker 4 (38:48):
You know it's so funny because I feel like
it kind of goes in, it swings a little.
So in the 90s you had more of a female
driven country music world with the shanias
and the martinas and trisha and everybody
that it was very female driven.
We've slowly kind of turned the other
direction and now it's more of a male
dominated industry.
And that's not saying the men don't deserve

(39:09):
to be there.
They work, they work super hard and they
deserve everything that they work for.
But there are also a lot of women that work
really hard and deserve everything they're
working for.

Mark Haney (39:18):
So riley and one of her friends and stacey
and I and we went and saw morgan wallin and
we've been to a few concerts together.
Who's your favorite male Country artist?
Because you mentioned morgan wallin earlier
and I'm like oh, I knew that guy.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
He was really nice.
You know, we, um, we opened from right when
he was doing up down with for to george
align, and so he wasn't the big star yet.
Whiskey glasses hadn't been released.
It was ace of spades in sacramento and I
remember, um, the main act can get both
dressing rooms if they want it.
And we were opening at the time and we're
like, oh god, what are we gonna do?

(39:51):
It's friday night in sacramento.
We have to go somewhere else to get ready.
That's gonna be so difficult.
And he was like, oh, they're girls, give
them the room with the door, we'll take the
lounge and like it was just really cool.
His whole team stood on the side of the
stage and gave us high fives as we walked
off.
They were great.
Um, I haven't been to one of his concerts
since then.
He's, you know, in the stadiums and
everything now, but at the males.

(40:11):
I'm a really big christapleton fan.
I think his music is phenomenal and his
vocal is amazing.
Like I'm definitely a stapleton gal who,
besides taylor swift?

Mark Haney (40:21):
is taylor swift your favorite is in terms
of the women, or the current women, or is
there somebody else you?

Speaker 4 (40:26):
know I love taylor for everything that she
does.
I have a signed taylor swift photo in my
room at my parents house.
Um, I went to a concert and I was about
riley's age and um, it was the speak now
concert and she walked by and I held her
hand and then the next day I learned how to
play guitar.
And I'm just saying I think the two might
be.

(40:46):
The magic touch exactly and like first song
I learned how to play was our song.
I was like, wow, it just works so perfectly.
So I love taylor.
Uh, big carry underwood fan love her.
And then I'm a really big ashley mcbryde
fan.
Like I think people are kind of sleeping on
ashley mcbryde.
She's phenomenal.
Her and brandy clark write some serious,
amazing songs.

Mark Haney (41:06):
Right any other questions from the audience?

Speaker 4 (41:09):
Yes.

Mark Haney (41:16):
Oh, who did you want to be your coach?

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Okay.
So when I went into the audition I was
definitely it's funny, everybody, as we're
prepping for the Blinds, we all say we just
need one, like just anyone that wants us,
they can have us.
And so we all had, like the people that you
know we would love to have, pick us.
Um, I went into it Really going you know,
if I get reba, if reba turns, I'm going on
team reba, nothing will stop me.

(41:40):
And then they tell you, before you walk out
there, they said make sure you listen.
If they turn, listen to what they tell you.
They could change your mind.
And I thought that was a lie and it was not
a lie.
I, I went on the stage and they were
talking to me.
They actually cut a lot of Gwen's pitch,
didn't air.
Um, so she was talking, she had plans laid
out, she had everything that she wanted to

(42:00):
do, she had walked up to me, she had paced
back and forth, she was fighting really
hard.

Mark Haney (42:04):
I could tell how serious she was about
everything very serious.

Speaker 4 (42:07):
And then she turned so fast that I was just
kind of like I felt drawn to her, I felt
like I had known her and then so then I'm
standing there going.
I had a plan Um, what am I doing?
And you have 10 seconds to dictate your
entire life?
Um, and I just remember thinking I have to
trust my gut.
I, it's gotten me this far, I have to
listen to it.
And so I went with Gwen.

(42:28):
Oh, what Grib is fantastic.
Um, but I went with Gwen going.
You know, I just felt connected to her.
But also battles were the next round and I
figured there's gonna be a lot of country
girls on team reba.
And so I'm like I might stand out a little
on team Gwen, I don't know, um, but yeah,
it was a little strategy, but mainly just
the draw to her.
But yeah, I threw my plan out the window,

(42:48):
my goodness.

Mark Haney (42:49):
That's awesome.
Any other questions Yo Stacy I have a
question about balance.

Kristen Brown (42:54):
So you have all of these balls in the air,
you're traveling, you're doing performances
all over and you're still a very young
woman, and so how do you balance your
professional life, you know, with your
personal life and really keep it real?

Speaker 4 (43:07):
um, it's a great question, you know, and
it's it's a funny question.
Literally on my way here, I got a text from
one of my very best friends in the whole
world, with Thanksgiving being next week,
everyone's coming back into town.
He sent me a text and it was the most
Realistic text for anybody who's friends
with me right now and it said what's your
10 day schedule?
What's your next 10 days worth of time?

(43:28):
Because I, like I just I'm not the kind of
person right now who you could go.
We're going out tomorrow.

Mark Haney (43:33):
We're going to dinner tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (43:34):
Does that work, like I?
Just it doesn't work.
Uh, because I still work Three days a week
teaching, and those are full days, and then
I'm trying to record and get everything all
set up.
Um, luckily, you know, I I have a boyfriend
who comes to all my shows and helps tear up,
sit down, so I get to see him then, and my
parents come to all the shows.
Um, I try to sleep.
That's a goal, um, but I mean, I spend a

(43:56):
lot of time in the car and I spend a lot of
time just I write all my music actually in
the car, I write while I drive, and then I
just put it some music later, so I'm never
not working.

Mark Haney (44:05):
You just do like a voice recorder?
Yeah, voice memo.

Speaker 4 (44:08):
Yeah, I get a lot of ideas while I drive
and I just hum out melodies and when I get
home I'll pull out my guitar and then
that's typically how the songs are written.
Um, but I mean, the balance part's really
really hard.
You have to be okay with giving up Some
things that a lot of people wouldn't be,
but that's part of it.
You, you get in what you, you get out what
you put in, and so it's one of those kind
of things.
Um, I wouldn't, I wouldn't take back

(44:29):
anything.
I don't regret anything and I have a nice
support system of friends who support me,
believe in me and understand when I say,
hey, I can't go do this, I can't go do that,
and yeah.
So it's hard but it's possible.

Mark Haney (44:42):
We're lucky that you came on the show for
sure, so excited.
I am so excited, uh, but you've had the
same boyfriend for quite a while.

Speaker 4 (44:50):
Yeah, four years.

Mark Haney (44:51):
Oh, wow, okay, is he ecstatic about this?
So supportive and really excited.

Speaker 4 (44:55):
It was a really hard secret for him to keep
because he obviously knew Um, because you
know I can't just leave for two months,
yeah exactly, and I'm like where did she go?
so he's been so, so supportive about it and
um, you know he he doesn't do music, it's
not his thing.
Um, he's in finance, he's very reserved and
very quiet, but he's very good at the.

(45:15):
I'm gonna go pack up her stuff.
Why she doesn't meet and greet or do stuff
like that.
So he's very put a studio in our house.
So like we took um oh old laundry room and
took the door off of the closet, put foam
pads on it, he put lights in the top and we
just set up a home studio.
So now I can work there.

Mark Haney (45:31):
Oh, that's so cool.
Other questions no, oh, oh, there we go.
Yeah, especially for the gender who?

Kristen Brown (45:40):
are looking maybe to get into something
like this.
You've done obin rows work with the group
and then, of course, now you're individual.
Um, what are some of the highlights?
Maybe, uh, one or the other.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
The benefits Absolutely, and it's cool
because they're both so different, but at
the end of the day, you're in both, so
there's a little little Fluck of yourself
in both of them.
But I would say with a group, if you play
with a group, it's really cool just to get
other perspectives.
I mean, it's like anything in business,
like the more brains you can get on a
project, the more ideas come and everybody
inspires everybody else and so it becomes a

(46:12):
collaborative process.
Uh, and that was so fun and I had such an
amazing time getting to work with those
girls and make the music that we did, and
then Going solo, I was able to then take
everything that I had learned in a group
and what that did was it solidified all of
my confidence in my own decisions, because
then it's just you and so you go.
I've done this before, but you just didn't

(46:34):
do it all before, so it's just adding a
little bit of the extra weight, but you get
to go.
I think I know what I want to do this time
around.
I know the vision I see for myself.
Um, and you can still like.
We talked about mentors.
You can ask the mentors if you're going in
the right direction.
You should never be on your own, um, but
yeah, it's cool, cause you just kind of get
to play around with how you want to control

(46:55):
your own life at that point.

Mark Haney (46:57):
Okay, so two final questions, and then
we'll let you sing a song.
Um, you know how to do that, no problem.
Okay, so, uh, number one, what question did
we not ask you that, like we should have
asked?
And then, uh, also just sort of the, the
words of wisdom to the aspiring uh artist

(47:21):
um, what would you tell her or him if he's
on his way up the?

Speaker 4 (47:25):
um.
So this is the shameless plug for the thing
we said.
What didn't we ask?
Um.
If you want to follow me online, you can
find me at Kristen Brown music Um.

Mark Haney (47:34):
Kristen Brown music that's on like
Instagram.

Speaker 4 (47:36):
Instagram, facebook, everything.
I tried to keep it really consistent.
Um.
And then, top of the year, I have I have a
website.
It's Kristen Brown official and you can see
where I'm playing in the area.
Um.
I have an announcement coming out tomorrow
in terms of shows which will be really,
really cool.
So keep an eye out for that Um.
But everything's kind of happened at the
top of the year.
We're going to get merch out, we're going
to do all the things.

(47:56):
So check out the website for that Um.
And then, in terms of just advice, for
anybody male, female who wants to get into
this um, I would say it's worth it.
It's a hundred percent worth it to follow
what you love, whether or not it gets you
to the maximum stardom you want to do, and
whether not even just music business, any

(48:18):
business in general.
If it's what you love, it's a hundred
percent worth it to try.
You don't lose anything in trying it.
You would just know that you did it.
And if it doesn't work out now you know.
But if it works out, you get to live that
dream.
So don't be afraid to just take that leap
of faith.
It's terrifying, it's not easy, but it will
be the best thing you ever did.

Mark Haney (48:36):
A hundred percent worth it If you try.
What a great mantra.
Um, okay, so if you decided what you want
to say, what do you want me to sing?
Oh well, I, it's almost Christmas time, but
I wanted you to do with what audience?
What do you?
Uh, country song, country song.
Okay, riley say the country song.

(48:57):
So okay, pick one out.
Hmm.

Speaker 4 (49:00):
I might just do it.
Okay, pella, is that what's happening?

Mark Haney (49:02):
Yeah, I guess.
So we don't Sure we don't have any birthday.
She could sing a happy birthday, oh
birthday for.

Speaker 4 (49:09):
Riley, yes, hmm, all right, I'll do one
that I know you guys are going to at least
know.
I'm going to back this up a little, because
we know how that goes.
Um, we'll do it.
Okay, pella, why not?

Speaker 3 (49:21):
dry light and cracks across the skies.
Those stone clouds gather in her eyes.
Her daddy was a mean old mister.
Mama was an angel in the ground.

(49:41):
The weather man called for a twister.
She pray blow it down.
There's not enough rain in Oklahoma to wash
the sins out of that house.
There's not enough wind in Oklahoma to rip
the nails out of the past.

(50:03):
Shatter every window till it's all blown
away.
Every brick, every bar, every slamming door
blown away.
Tell there's nothing left standing, nothing
left yesterday.

(50:23):
Every tears song twists, ski memory.
Blown away, blown away, blown away, blown
away.

Mark Haney (50:47):
We are blown away.
Definitely blew us away today.
Kristen Brown, Kristen Brown music.
We are so lucky to have you in our world.
Thanks for taking an hour out of your day
in this really hectic time.
So we love you, Thank you.

Speaker 4 (51:07):
Love you guys.