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May 29, 2025 69 mins

Welcome back to this week’s episode of Diving In Deep with Sara Evans! In this episode is joined by the dynamic, country female duo, Maddie and Tae! Maddie and Tae share how getting matched with the same vocal coach turned into a 15 year music career, how they found their way to Nashville, and their beautiful love stories with their husbands.

The three of them also go in depth into motherhood and what that looks like as a musician on the road. This episode is jam packed with life advice, behind the scenes information about being women in country music, and what it means to be authentic to yourself.

This is an episode you don’t want to miss, especially if you’re curious about joining Sara’s new passion project, mothers against crew cuts!

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About Maddie and Tae:

Since bursting into public consciousness with the power-acoustic slayer “Girl In A Country Song,” which skewered BroCountry’s female stereotypes and received the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame’s coveted I Wish I Wrote That Song honor, the ride-or-die besties have been speaking truth about what it means to be smart, young women.


“Die From a Broken Heart,” their second No. 1 which went RIAA Gold at the same time it hit country’s Top 40, was an unblinking look at the way being dumped can lay one out. But Maddie Font and Tae Kerr have never been ones to be defeated; instead, the pair of brazen songwriters come back stronger.


Love & Light, their 16-song take on what a woman should know over what people tell them, is a festival of freedom, fun, reality, what it takes to chase dreams, and how powerful acceptance can be. Even more than the acoustic-forward – chiming acoustic guitars, well-deployed dobro, banjo and resonator guitar, as well as pools of steel guitar and mandolin shine – it’s the pair’s sleek harmonies and sharp writing that define what will most likely be called the Country Music Association Award winners’ “coming of age record.”

They can also do it with an all-star band of players who deliver a gleaming country that swerves from pop to soul to classic without ever forcing the style. Enlisting bluegrass sensation Bryan Sutton, Academy of Country Music Guitarist and 2-time Specialty Instrumentalist of the Year Danny Rader, 4-time ACM Bassist of the Year Jimmie Lee Sloas, electric guitarist Kris Donegan and drummers Evan Hutchings and Aaron Sterling among many, there’s a joy to the playing that transcends Nashville’s basic cycle of 10, 2 and 6 o’clock recording sessions. You can hear the fun they’re having in the studio.


Love & Light started with longtime friend, co-writer and producer Corey Crowder. They also worked with co-writers and producers Chris LaCorte and Josh Kerr.


Women of both great faith and little tolerance for double talk, justification, and bloated egos, the 10-time CMA and Academy of Country Music Duo of the Year nominees are in a good place. Leaning into their influences, they’ve figured out the torque needed to create a true representation of what women – and men – want.


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Produced and Edited by: The Cast Collective (Nashville, TN)

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Directed by: Erin Dugan

Edited By: Sean Dugan, Corey Williams, & Michaela Dolph

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