Bobby sits down with one of his favorite new artists, Tiera! They talk about her signing her first record deal, making her Opry debut and the first time Bobby played a clip of her performance The Bobby Bones Show back in 2015. Bobby also flashes back to all of Tiere’s interviews from On Time with Bobby Bones and the first time they met on the Bobby Bones Show!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
All right here with Tierra, which it has been a
very exciting a few months as I've seen you last,
I mean personal and professional. I just saw I was
flipping through you know, one of the industry websites and
it was like Tierra signs with you know Valerie. Yes, yeah,
(00:25):
And I was like, holy crap, someone was smart enough
to grab her. And you know, obviously I think you're
a humongous star. So how did that? How did those
talks start? Oh my gosh, Well it started in the
middle of me like planning a wedding and we were
in the middle of buying house and then that like sorry,
I gotta get closer. Um, and then all of that happened.
(00:48):
So it was a crazy few months. Um. So I
had released founded in You like during COVID and that
song just did way better and I thought it would
have um, and so labels started reaching out, and UM,
it was kind of just for me. I was just like,
(01:10):
I'm going to talk to these people and like kind
of build a relationship. But I honestly like wasn't looking
to sign a deal yet because it just felt like
there was more that I needed to do by myself. UM.
And then UM, I don't know. I just kind of
got to a point where it's like there's only so
(01:32):
much I can do by myself, and like radio is
very important to me, and that's something you can only
do with the label. UM. And so I had a
meeting with the A and R girls at Big Machine
and UM and Scott and I went into to that
(01:53):
meeting and I was like, this didn't either go one
of two ways. I can either like really love me
or that's going to go really bad. UM. And I
just like sat down and I started singing my songs
and Scott just kept asking me to sing more. And
it even got to a point where I was like,
I'm running out of songs that I have memorized, Like
(02:14):
I'm gonna start playing some covers at some point. UM.
But he offered me a deal right in that meeting. UM.
And so you know, I did the whole thing and
like talk to all of the labels and UM. I
just I really loved val the Valerie team, UM, because
it was always really important for me to, like, even
(02:36):
when I do sound a deal, for it to feel
very small and like close in and still like a family.
And that was exactly what that team was. So I
texted Scott, and I don't have a close relationship with Scott,
but I text him and he'll hit me up occasionally
about something big or usually if I if I say
something he disagrees with or but I I text him
almost like man, you got it, you got I mean,
(02:57):
I see everybody and I just am so jaded, and
I said, but you got you have a star. And
I think he was even surprised I texted him. He
was like, thanks, man, So I was. I was very
excited to see that. For you know, I think you're
the best. So I saw you briefly at the Opery.
I think you were going in. Was that your debut nite?
It was? It was, And everybody kept asking me if
(03:18):
I was nervous, and I thought that I would be
once I got on stage, but I surprisingly wasn't at all.
It was just like very excited because you know, that's
something that you dream of when you moved to Nashville. Um,
and it was just so special because I'm like really
bad at taking a second to appreciate moments, and I
(03:38):
just felt like standing on that stage, I'm like nowhere
near made it, but it just felt like everything that
I've done up until that point, I could just like
appreciate it on that stage. Um, so it was really
special when you played that first time. Were you able
to actually see people's faces in the crowd, meaning could
you take it in? Because the first time I played,
(03:59):
I couldn't. Yeah, it was blurry. Yeah. So I saw
him my parents, UM, and those are like really only
the people that mattered. Um, they were literally like right
in front of me. And I was singing a song
that's not released yet, but um it's just about like
how I got into country music and everything, and um
(04:21):
it's like kind of an emotional song for me. And
I looked out and I saw my parents, and I'm
surprised I didn't cry. I really thought I was gonna cry,
like on my debut moment, but I didn't. Um. So yeah,
I feel like I got to take it all in.
I think the second time, I'm really going to be
able to take it all in because I already told me, like,
(04:41):
once you get on stage, just take a second, like
don't start talking, just like look out into the crowd.
And I kind of did that, but I feel like
not fully. The second time is the most fun because
it's for you the first time. It's for you, but
it's also for everybody who's been on the ride with you.
And there's a whole there's a lot of people, there's
cameras are documenting it, there's a sign, and so it's
(05:03):
like sensory overload. Yeah, the second time you go, it's
just normal. You walk down the hall, you get the
dressing room, you go out, you take some deep breaths,
and you perform. It's awesome. You'll love that. I enjoyed
the second time way more than the first because the
first I was like, and I tell jokes, and so
I don't have a talent like you do. I have
to go out and be funny and so which I
(05:25):
feel like it's even harder. I was just like, oh,
if I bond these jokes because I'm nervous, you know,
it's gonna everybody's gonna be upset. They spent all night
making that they had a cake because the whole thing.
But I was super proud of you. It's awesome, that's
super cool. I feel like, you know, I can't wait
until you're a massive start and I'm like, look, guys,
I'm on tape here. Wait Before she had a deal
(05:45):
saying how big of a star she is. I know,
well I appreciate it. I Like, I'm not just saying
this because I'm here. I feel like I tell you
this every time, but I literally remember just like sitting
in my room in Birmingham, and I would like, I
just saw how supportive you were of all of these artists,
and you know, like everything you did for Kelsey and
(06:06):
it was just so cool to me. So I promise
I'm not saying this, but like being on your show
was like right up under making my Aprey debut because
you're just like you're just so word of everybody. So
you were on the radio show earlier this year, but
I remember you. You had brought it up to me
because I didn't remember you sending a YouTube video back
(06:27):
in yes, and you were like, I've actually been on
your show and I was like, no, you have it,
and you're like, no, no, no, I send a video
doing girl Crushed by a little big town. We have?
Is this a clip from the story or clip in
the video? YouTube video we have? This is from? I
haven't heard this yet. I knew Mike had something. Okay,
let's hear it. Hey y'all, my name's Tierra and this
is my cover of girl Crushed by a Little Big Town.
(06:49):
And this is for the Bobby Bone Show, So I
hope you'll watch it. Got a co coach, Hey you
to And in the it sounds really good. Usually when
we go back into the archives and pull something from
five or six years ago, you know, we get a
good laugh. Now you sound great here. Well, it's the
(07:09):
accent for me, it's just like very prominent. Yes, it
is when I was because I grew up in Arkansas,
and so when I started to want to do this
radio TV, I went and took a class to lose
my accent, like I went to I went to many classes,
like hours and hours of speech pathology. But now I
don't want to lose it's it's kind of you know,
(07:31):
it is me. Forever I was trying to not be
me because I was kind of embarrassed to who I
was and how I grew up. And now it's like
I'm proud of who I am, not that I wasn't.
I just didn't know that I should be proud of
it because everybody told me I shouldn't be. But did
you lose your accent? Now you you can't fully get
it back. Or do you still have an accent? I
don't know. I can't tell. I don't know what that.
But you're also from the South, so it's hard for
us to hear a distinct accent unless it's real thick,
(07:54):
like that's how I used to talk like that. I
learned about eyes because all my sound like this. No, yes,
but I learned as how. I would say it's growing up,
but I can't imagine you're talking and eyes how I
say it now? So you learn ice cream? Ice cream?
You know? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I mean, yeah,
(08:15):
I was. I guess I was. You used to have
the eyes. Don't lose the eyes, No, But it depends
on who I'm talking to you, because if I'm talking
to somebody that's like more northern, then I do have
a more northern but I do the same thing. We
need to talk to the British people, like I've called
myself like it's really bad, but yeah, I'm only like
super southern when I'm around more Southern people. When I
(08:37):
get tired, it comes out a lot like I or
if I'm back home for a long time. But the
biggest ones for me were eyes and I n G
because I would never put the G on it. I
was working, yeah, but it's working. But my friends from
the North are friends from you know, the Midwest. They
can really tell I have an accent, but most people
(08:58):
in the South are like, dang, fancy, well, you don't
have an AX anymore, but I do. It's just we are.
That is so odd because I cannot imagine you with
this other next I have no I still have one.
You're crazy right now for thinking I don't have one
right now. But I digress to talking about me. So Mike,
can we play the song that she was talking about? Um? Earlier,
I founded in you, but that I was miss listen
(09:26):
kind of crazy is right on me. So tell me
about this song. This is track one. You mentioned it earlier,
So talk about because you wrote this. You and Cameron
wrote this song together, and you guys wrote a lot together. Yes, yeah, so, Um,
(09:50):
I have been in Nashville for a while before you
wrote that song. UM, And I don't think I had
to deal. Yeah, No, I didn't have a publishing deal
at that point, so I was is kind of writing
with anybody that I could. Um, I didn't really have
a sound yet. I didn't really know what I was
writing for UM, and Cameron reached out to me and
(10:14):
just acts if I wanted to ride, and so this
was our first write together. It was just a two way,
which is like terrifying. UM, but because you have to
talk in a two way, like you have to provide
ideas right and if it's just like if the vibe
is not there. Was it the first time you guys
are written together? Yeah, yeah, yeah, UM, But thankfully it
(10:36):
worked out and we wrote this song. And it wasn't
until after the right after he sent me the demo
that I just like fell in love with the song
and I was like, this, this was everything that I've
been searching for, that sound that I was looking for,
because before then I was just kind of um listening
to everyone else's music in Nashville and like trying to
(10:59):
put it together there to make my sound, which was
not working out at all. UM. And he's kind of
got this like R and B thing to him because
he grew up listening to that kind of music. UM,
and I did too, but like reluctantly, like my parents
were played around the house and I wanted them to
turn off because I didn't want to listen to it. Um.
(11:19):
But that's just in me because that's what I, you know,
grew up listening to. And so I feel like that
song is the perfect mesh of R and B and country. Um.
And so yeah, we wrote that and then we just
kind of started writing more. And I had to convince
him to become my producer because he's never done anything
like that before. But I was like, this is just
(11:40):
too good and I'm not going to find anybody else
like this. UM. So yeah, that song just kind of
started all three. It's a very special one. The new
song I played on my show a couple of days ago. Gentlemen,
and this song here, you wrote this for your husband,
But did you write it before he was your husband?
I wrote it two years for even propos I was committed.
(12:04):
Um we I think some money just throughout there, like
you don't have to be a gentleman. And then one
of us was like tonight and we're like, oh, that's saucy.
We like that. Um and like we we did have
a conversation like can we say this, like this is
a little too much, but we just went for it,
and um, I played it for a lot of people
(12:27):
and everybody loved it, and nobody was really like, oh this,
like this is too much. So I just was like,
I'll release it after my wedding, so it's acceptable. Nobody
can say anything. Play a clip up in here when
we come all out, like I'm just saying it out
(12:50):
of line if you don't want to be still this.
So let's talk about the wedding. You got married about
a month and a week but weeks ago. It was great. Um.
I honestly, I think that both of us kind of
we like kind of wanted to get over with in
the best way because it was like I planned the
(13:13):
whole thing, well both of us, most with me, but
we played the whole thing. We didn't have a wedding planner,
and I was just so ready to get all of
that over with. I'm also not the best at being
the center of attention when I'm not an artist mode. Yeah,
so it was kind of hard. Like everybody always says
that your wedding goes by super fast, but I felt
(13:35):
like it was going by so slow. Like once we
got to the reception part, I was like, can we
get through these toes? Can we get through the cake cutting?
And just dance because that's all I want to do
because I don't want everybody looking at me. Um. But
it was. It was a good wedding. We had about
like two d one that we had like one seventy okay,
big wedding. Well of the guest list was him because
(13:56):
he has a huge family. I wanted like maybe eighty people,
but that was not going to happen. Um. But we
had it in Franklin, so all of our families from Birmingham,
they came down and it's a pretty easy trip Birmingham
up here. Yeah, it's only like two and a half
three hours. We had our wedding here at the house
in the back and it's beautiful. Thanks, and everybody kept
(14:18):
going it's gonna fly by. It was when a fine
pace right. Yeah. I took some deep breaths. I mean
I I struggled with my vows a little bit. I
really don't cry that often, but when I really get hit,
I get hit hard. Yeah, I mean it's kind of
how I am. I didn't do them. You didn't know.
I was like a writer like yourself decided you didn't
(14:39):
want to write. No, it's so weird, And everyone kept
saying that, but I just felt so like I just
felt weird about professing my love for him in front
of everyone. So I just kind of wanted to do
that on our own time. At one point, as we
were doing our vows, because I felt that too, I
was like, man, this is a really personal publicly. But
then I realized, I do that for my life, but
(15:01):
I do it in a small room with like three
or four people, so I don't see the people's faces.
When I'm doing the radio show, I get there were
like two people sitting out there, not as many as yours.
I take that back one. We don't have a tearer
wad smaller, and I remember I started to choke up
and I was getting emotional, and then they got a
plane like flew over and I got to stop. I stopped,
(15:25):
You got to get together, collected everything, plane finished away.
I went back, very thankful that I hired that gotta
fly over right at that time? Did you all do
a first look? No? So did you like feel pressured
to have a reaction? Would you walk them now? Yes? Yes,
And I didn't want to. I was putting pressure on
(15:47):
myself to maintain composure because I knew that I was
gonna have to watch it back eventually. I knew there'd
be pictures and videos. So the pressure to me was okay,
you need to and up in the terrible phrase and
I don't use it often, and I was like, you get,
but you need to be what you don't want other
men to be, like fake cuff. But you know everybody
(16:08):
wants you to cry, so it's good that but that's
why I didn't want to. I'm not here to please them.
Get him buy tickets to this I did. I told Cameron.
I was like, if you don't cry, I'm literally turning
my ground. But I didn't. He didn't even He's not
an emotional person, so it wasn't he did not cry.
I'm not an emotional person either, until I just get
like wrecking bald and when she was walking down that's
(16:32):
when I lost it. And the r DJ who I
used to listen to on the radio when I was
a kid, so I hired it from markets how to Come,
you know, the be the DJ. He was like, hey,
you should take this with you because you may cry,
and he handed me at like a handker Jeff, and
I was like stop. It was like, yeah, what are
you talking about? And I don't need this? Thank god
he did because I pulled it out, you know, four
times in the middle of it. But it was awesome.
I'm glad you. I'm glad it happened because I was
(16:53):
trying to get to come play a festival with this
and you were going on your honeymoon. How that end up?
It was fine. Um, we went to the Maldives and
I know, yeah, it was good. We um. We were
on this resort like they only had like thirty villas
and I don't even think it was full. So they're like,
weren't a lot of people on this island at all. Um.
(17:14):
So it was nice because we don't ever relax. We're
always working. Um, and we kind of did work a
little bit on the honeymoon. But I'm talking about the
bachelorette party. That's where it was. I said that, I'm confused,
they're all trips that yes, the honeymoon, Okay, the honeymoon
(17:35):
was aldis bachelorette we went to uh was it start
to the p It's in um, Florida. No, no, no, no, no,
uh no no, it's actually our Rosemary Beach. We went
to Rosemary. I never want to guess that. Yeah, I know, Um,
it was fun, That's what I'm thinking. Of when I
tried to get you come out and place and festivals
(17:56):
with us, but you had that weekend. Yeah, yeah, it
was a good time. Well are you now gathered? Do
you feel as marriage? Does it feel like there's a
bit of stability even though you had it, you didn't
have it, but now you have it? Definitely, Like I'm
glad that I like can. I was more so happy
about the last name, Like I really wanted to take
(18:17):
his last name, um, because I never told anyone, like
what my actual name was because they're just not that
hated it, but like people always made jokes about it,
and it was just so annoying. But his last name
is Kennedy, very normal. Now I'm all curious about what
our original list name it's left, which yes, some people did,
(18:39):
which was also like kind of it wasn't annoying. But
like I know nothing about him, Like he's a distant cousin,
so because a cousin, that's freaking cool. But I know
nothing about he's the offensive coordinator now for Tampa Bay,
for the Buccaneers. He's the player Jacksonville. Okay, go ahead,
I think that's what I would have thought. I didn't
know that well, but other people would be like, oh right,
(18:59):
which like sandwich, and it's just like okay, whatever, So
I just never told people. The weird part about our
last name is so my real last name is a Stell,
and so that's my name, Bobby A Stell. But when
I was younger, seventeen, they kind of forced the name
Bones on me, and so I lived this and I
tried to shake Bones forever. O, how how can you
(19:22):
give me like the condensed version of how that happened? Bones? Yeah,
I feel like I know how it happened. There's no story.
I was a teenager star and they're like, your name
is either Bones or Bobby Z. And I was like,
well they're both stupid. Wait, because they didn't like your
last name. They want they wanted like a radio named
to like pop. So I was like, I guess I'll
take the one that sounds like a pirate. And everywhere
(19:42):
I went, I was connected to the last place, so
I couldn't shake it. So the weird thing for Caitlin,
my wife, is that her name was Caitlin Parker, but
she took my and she wasn't gonna go by Caitlin Bone.
She had rather be dead, and so her name is
Caitlyn Astell, and here I am. I don't even have
the same People don't even know me as the same
last name as my wife, So there's a weird But
(20:05):
no one even knows you except by I mean, I
guess there's a similarity. They're kind of a parallel. Yeah, yeah,
no one really does know any last name from you whatsoever. Yeah, no,
I'm I was very adamant about not using my last
but I also feel like no one else, at least
in country music, like has Tira, so you know why not?
(20:27):
And who has one name that didn't start with two names?
Meaning people have grown into having one name. I don't
know because like ar three but Dolly but all had
last names right, also like Beyonce. I don't know. But
I'm saying I'm just original. You are. You're just original.
You came out brave and you're like, I don't need
the last name from the start. So now, what does
(20:55):
it mean though that you have a label deal? What
does it mean? Like, what's the day to day change
in your life now that you have a record label
that can promote you? Oh? I mean I feel like
the biggest changes that I have to let go of
a lot of control, UM, because I was one of
those independent artists, like I did every single aspect of
(21:20):
like I was a part of all of it, you know,
releasing my music and everything, UM. And so you know,
it's it's definitely hard to release that control and let
other people even even something as simple as like uploading
my music to be like you know, on all the
streaming services, Like that's so hard for me because I'm
(21:42):
so used to doing that. UM. But yeah, I don't know.
I honestly, I think that's the biggest change. And obviously
they have the power to like, UM, make me a
bigger star money you give up control. I mean, I
have to do this too, you know, he signed with
a big funny They can make your star. Yeah, but
(22:03):
it takes you for the first time going all right,
I'll do what you say for the most part. You
have to kind of pick your battles. Yeah. But also
the great thing about Valerie UM and also Scott, like
I I was very adamant when I was taking meetings
about UM keeping my music in the brand and everything
(22:27):
the same, Like I didn't want to sign and then
be a completely a different artist. UM. And so they've
been super cool with let me do my thing, you know,
like when it comes to the creative and and the
songs that we're choosing to record. Um, so you know,
like I've had to let go of some control in
some aspects, but it's not like they're not taking it
(22:49):
and like trying to make me something I'm not, which
is great. Who do you feel like musically? Are people
that maybe not even on purpose and somewhat purposeful, like
you have taken a lot from like you are you
are the product of who musically? Oh like my sound
or just your sound, your likes, just you know, the
(23:10):
the whole Tierra, Like, where do you come from? Musically? Um?
I mean I think it goes back to like what
my parents were playing in the house, Like you know,
like we would listen to a lot of like a
shanty and um, you know, like like boys, men and
stuff like that. Like but I feel like it's it's
(23:31):
that but also combined with Dolly and um artists like that.
I don't know if you had to do amount. Rushmore
of your favorite artists. My favorite artists four yeah, which
is four and their heads go up and it's Tierra's mount.
Rushmore of her favorite artists okay, Beyonce and Dolly Um.
(23:53):
And then after that it gets a little rough. Um um,
why are why are rough? I don't know, because I
just like love both of them so much, like they're
just like the two artists that I'm fully obsessed with. Oh. Also,
this is so random, but like Shelton, like I freaking
love Flake Shelton, so he would be right up there
next to fiance and Dolly Um for the one I
(24:18):
don't know. I don't know. That's al you have to
add one more head shoot far um Okay, I'm sweating.
Uh and this will always be recorded and will always
be home. Yes, I don't know, Bobby, I don't know.
Can you let me think about it. I'll come back
(24:39):
to you. Yeah, come back to it. I did see
you in Nashville Lifestyle Most Beautiful People, Yes, with you
on the cover you. Yeah, that was really cool. I'm
pretty sure I was looking like real Dusty Krusty when
they told me that I was one of the most
beautiful people, So it's cool. Did they call you and
tell you? How did that happen? Un injured? I think
(25:01):
she either like text me or called me and told me.
And was it for me? And this is this is
gonna be the difference in you and I. For me,
whenever someone puts me on a most beautiful list, I
think they're doing it to make fun of me. Like
I literally think that I'm gonna be vulnerable with you
for a second. I've never been a beautiful person, meaning physically,
(25:22):
I've always been made fun of. I've always been the ugly,
weird kid, and as I've gotten older, I've just come
to terms with it. Right, So they call in there
and they say, hey, most beautiful, and at first I
think they're just calling me, and I'm like, great, they're
putting me up there. I'm gonna get harassed so bad
because I'm not beautiful. I know all my friends people
are gonna be like, how do you make it? And
then like, we'd also like to put you and your
wife on because we've never done a couple before. And
(25:43):
I'm like, oh, they just wanted her and they knew
she wouldn't do it unless I was with her, so ill.
But I always go and guarded like that because that
was made fun forever. But for you, when they say, hey,
you're one of nashville most beautiful people, you've gotta be
pretty pumped. It's a big look. I know. I definitely was. Um.
I also was like, my mind goes to like, oh,
(26:06):
my gosh, I hope people are like, aren't looking at
me like, oh she's snobby, Like she thinks she's beautiful.
You know, So they had both of our minds probably
went to something that we hold on too, like some
past trauma of some sort. Yes, oh god, we're here.
I'm just saying if we both felt that way whenever
someone said, hey, you get this, and we we kind
(26:29):
of recoil in different ways. Yeah, No, totally. Yeah, I
definitely have a problem with like, um, thinking too much
about what other people think about me. Yeah, don't look
at me like that. I just I wonder, and I
guess I have trouble with someone thinking ill about you
(26:50):
without knowing you, because you are just generally one of
the warmest people from the moment I met you on
thanks and so if you were you know, if some
dude as any was a douche from minute I met him,
but then I grew to like him, I would understand that.
I'd be like, oh yeah, terrible, terrible, yes, but they'll
see yeah, but I don't know you. I never ever
got a vide from but I mean, um, yeah, I
(27:13):
don't know. They're I don't know. Have you had anybody
cool reach out that you think is cool, maybe a
cool writer in town, an artist be like, hey, your
music is really good. Um yeah, I mean so Carly
Pierce and Kelsey Bellerini, they've been super super supportive. Um
An Hillary Scott and those were really cool for me because, um,
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when I was in Birmingham, I would look at all
of their careers and just kind of kind of learned
the ropes of Nashville from looking at them. Like I
was upset the first time I met with Carly, I
told her this, like, I have her first album, her
first EP that she released before she was even signed
to a record record label. Um, I have it on
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my phone. So I was like, I was like an
O G fan. And so it's really cool to be
friends with them now Scott Borsheta, Carly. It's also that
relationship Kelsey Ballerini. Me. Yes, I remember I met Kelsey
as she was just a songwriter, barely just moved to town,
and I was like, holy crap, you're good. And we
used to drive around in a car all across the
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southeast and playing restaurants. Really, she would run the back seat,
I'd ride and we would have hurt. Next we played
we go with Thursday. We'd leave and played two or
three shows and then we would get back Sunday and
then I'd go back and Yeah, her first ever touring
was with me, and I was like, Hey, we're gonna
go play this. We played a museum once for like
I don't know, nine people. Oh it was. It was terrible,
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but it was awesome. We played a mall once. Is
this when she first very first? We played a mall
once and they put a tent up in the middle
of the mall for our dressing room. But you can't
leave the tent, so we haven't played the mall. And
then people just waited outside the tent. It was like
hundreds of people, and so we said and we were
happy because we had to hang out with people, but
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it set us back on our drive to the next
town all about four hours. But it was the worst
idea for addressing him. A tent in the middle of
the mall. They were just hanging out the tent. Well,
after you're done, yeah, and we did, and so did
everybody else. Um, that kind of gives me PTSD because
when I first moved, you know, people like they'll play downtown,
like when like there's like four hour sets downtown. So
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I never did that, but I played at the mall.
I played at the Cool Springs Mall, and they were
like one two hour sets. But it is the most
like sometimes the most soul crushing thing because like people
either love you and they'll like sit there and watch you,
or they don't give two crabs about you. And that
was like that was kind of a tough time for
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me because that was like my equivalent to playing downtown.
What was playing at the mall? Like you go and
play all covers? Do you throwing originals? I would play
all covers. Sometimes I would throw in originals if I
had like had a crowd already, um, But mostly it
was you know, all the songs that people know, like
I've played, um, all of Shania Joe Lane. Yeah. Would
you ever get a pretty good crowd and they would
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sit for a few songs or was that good? Sometimes? Yeah?
I mean it really just depends on the day, um,
you know, because there were some days where they were
like a lot of people in the mall and I
would have people um, sit and watch and um, it
was good. The tips were good, and sometimes I like
wouldn't get tips at all because nobody Like sometimes I
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would have a crowd, but like nobody would would you
ever say, I guess feel pretty tip right there? Or
did you have a guitar case? So really so bad
at that? I think I think I got to the
point where I'm just like put a sign up. But
I'm really bad at asking for things, especially money, So
I never did that. What does that gig pay though?
No tips? Um um anything. I would make like a
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hundred bucks for a couple of hours. I just played
an hour and they pay you a hundred bucks for
an hour. They didn't pay me, only got to you,
only got yes yes tips it. How did you get
that job? Did you go on audition? Um? I I
lived close to there, and I think maybe I knew
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another artist that was playing the mall and I just
asked him how they how they got the gig? And
the move will be once you have a couple of hits,
to sneak back over and play the same spot and
record you playing it again and show them side by side,
just to show people that are playing them all now, Yeah, like, Hey,
I was playing them all a couple of years ago. Yeah, yeah, No,
I'm definitely glad that I did that because I don't know,
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I'm all about UM. I want to feel like I
earned something. And the fact that I played at the mall,
and you know, I played at other restaurants around Nashville.
Like the fact that I did that and you know,
had those hard days, it definitely makes me grateful for
the things that I have. Now. I can ask you
a question about your husband before we wrap up here.
But you posted a picture of a camera that you
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wanted to buy and then he slid in your d
M S. Is that how that happened? It kind of
wallowed me through the situation here. Yes, Okay, if you
asked him this question, he will tell a completely different
story than me. But we kind of knew each other
through his brother because I went to school with his brother,
and UM, we passed each other at Panera bread Me
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and Cameron UM, and we like locked eyes and he
emailed me at one point and like so that he
wanted to work together and I was like, no, I'm busy,
and so we didn't talk for like a year after that,
and then I posted that picture of a camera. Any
messaged me and said that he could help me figure
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out how to use my camera, and so we did
face sim and he did help me with my camera. Um,
and then we just like kept talking and um, he's
like kind of been my creative director since the very beginning.
Your family like him, they love him. They actually both
of our families kind of knew each other. So it
was meant my dad is a cop and he worked
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at the airport back in Birmingham, and Cameron said is
also a cop, so I think they like work together
at one point. Pretty cool. Yeah, your mom musical, your
dad musical. My mom sings um just around the house.
She will never sing in front of the ground. But then,
where did it come from with you? What? What what
gave you that liberty to just go like all right,
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I'm gonna do it. I don't know. I've always been
just like a very independent person. And um, like when
I was in high school, it was like in middle school,
like I just needed to figure out what I was
going to do because I wanted to succeed so bad,
like failure was not an option. So I was like
I'm gonna I'm gonna get into this singing thing, and
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I'm gonna do it really really well. So I don't know.
Both my parents like they've always been super supportive of
everything we do. When they're like, we'll let you try
whatever you want, but whatever you pick, like you're gonna
stick to it and you're gonna take the lessons and
do all the things. When did you move here? I
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moved here four years ago. Do you feel like that's
been forever or yesterday? I feel like I've been here
like ten years. When you first moved here as a
brand new writer slash artists slash, You're just hope it's
something sticks, Like what did you do? Did you find
you get an apartment? Did you come in like look
at Nashville since you live close and finding Well, my
parents actually moved up here with me. Yeah. I went
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to college for a year. Um and before then I
was trying to move to Nashville, but they really wanted
me to go to school, UM and just like figure
things out, and so I did for a year. But
my parents were taking trips back and forth with me,
and UM, I was riding with a lot of people
and um taking meetings and everybody said you're you're you
need to move here if this is what you want
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to do. And they just heard that enough. Tim's to
where they were like, okay, that's pretty cool. Congratulations on everything.
Thank you, super pumped for you. Thanks. This is just
you know, this is the start of something that is
going to be life long for you. I'm very proud
of you, very proud to see you here. Thank you,
and always I'll always hold that over your head, that
video you sent in two thousand fifteen, I'll always every
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time you come in I remember this. No, the intest
so bad. This is my cover of girl Crushed by
a little Big Town and this is for the Bobby
Bones Show. So it's not like a kid. I do
you are a kid? Though? You are a kid? Yeah.
I used to enter like all of my stuff like
hey all have my name's Tierra, And so now around
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the house camera will just like hope coming to me
and be like, hey all, my name's Tierra. And it's
so embarrassing. What was that even for? I don't remember
that you were doing a contest and whoever did the
best cover of girl Crush got to come in and
play it in studio of jes Girl Crush. Yeah, do
you remember who won that. Have we talked about this?
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I don't remember who. I do remember who went bad?
To remember her name? I remember her face and mine
was better. Just saying I'll leave that there. Who knows?
I don't know. I don't know who she is right now,
you guys, followed Tierra at Tierra Music t I E.
R A Music, Gentleman, is the new song out? It's great?
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Is this the single? Or is this just a song
right now that you're like, yeah, it's just kind of
a song I've wanted to release with my wedding, but
it's not the single. When you come in with that,
I don't know. You tell me, I would love to know.
Whenever you're ready and you get it, let me know
back on that. We'll do a big thing on the
radio show again and if you want to play, you
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can play. If not, we'll just talk about it. Well,
i'd love to play. Do you still like to play?
Like you still like to sing? Have you? Are you
singed out? No? No, no, no no, I love to play. Yeah.
I will absolutely come on and play. Okay, well, good
to see you. We'll end it here. UM so happy
that that you're making it. I knew you win and
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when I'm down and out, you can remember me. Yes,
of course I'm down and out. You just throw me
a bone. Okay, Okay, I got you. Hey, guys, welcome
(37:16):
back to d D. This show on Time with Bobby Bones.
Have to look. It's to the point I always dreamed
of being confused by all the shows that I do,
But it's to the point I had to look at
the sign to figure out is this the Bobby Cast?
Is this breaking Boby Bones? Is this the boy Bone Show?
I'm digging. I'm over exposed. Friends, Uh my next guest.
I would tell you I brought her in because I
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just really honestly thought she was so freaking good when
she played. I knew she was good by hearing her
music online, but then she played on my show and
I was like, man, like, I gotta have her places um,
and she's she's here, and I am super pumped for
you guys to see HER's your first time to see her.
She just released herself titled EP earlier this year and
has been named basically an artist to watch everybody if
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they if they write things about music, She's on it.
She's been featured as a spotlight artist on the Country
Top thirty Countdown, which I hosted, produced on like two Cities,
The Women of by Her Country, I produced that show,
put her on there every chance I get. She's a
talented singer songwriter that is really destined to be a star.
And if she's not that means country music screwed up.
That's all. That's all it means. If she's not a
star means country get screwed up. And she goes about
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one name and one name only here she is Tierra
Heart laughing out there. But I have great to see
you by the way again, Great to see you, Great
to see you. But everything I just said I said
to your face last time I saw you, know you did?
I guess It's just like I don't know, but I
don't and I don't remember anything, right, I have a
terrible memory. I only remember saying it as I was
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saying it again because it felt familiar. But like I
truly feel that way that if you're not a star,
this place is broken. Thanks. I appreciate that. It makes
me feel great. Okay, sent you said it yourself that
you forget things. I just have to say, do you
know that last time was actually not my first time
playing on your show. I've actually been on your show. Oh,
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let's play this game. I didn't know that. Okay, you have,
don't hold on, don't tell me, do't tell me. Let's
play the game. First of all, I'm sorry. I like
to say that. Okay, it wasn't that memorable. It's fine,
But did you come as You didn't come as just
Tierra though I did. Okay, there's something to this. Yeah,
I'm trying to tell you. You did a contest for
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girl Crush for like the best cover, and I sent
in one of my covers, but you weren't in the studio.
But technically, aunt, let's go, let's go to the judge.
Let's go. It does account, But that also shows you
even before I knew you were like trying to make
it that, I thought you were good because I got
like ten thousand submissions for that thing. So you don't
even remember the bit. I will be honest with you.
(39:45):
I do so many bits. But I was looking for
the best cover of girl Crush. And how did you
submit the video through YouTube? Posted a video on YouTube
but it's still there, and then I played it on
the air. Was there a winner? Did they win a
million dollar or something. I think they got to come
on the show. Do you know who one? Yeah, we
don't need it main here now well that's crazy, I know, yeah,
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well now here. It was like on my bucket list
to be on your show for a long time. So
here we are, and and we weren't able to work
this out. But and we can keep every reason private
if we need to. But I invited you to come
and play at our festival, Bobby Fest, and was like,
I will pay you money, come and play, come on
stage with us. And you weren't able to do it
for whatever, you know, I'll say it's for my honeymoon.
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That's that's your business though, because I didn't want to
jump on and stage. But I was like, actually it's
my bachelorette party. Yeah, but if it was anything other
than that, I would be there. I was like, we're
doing this show, and you know, we're only doing like
two festival. We're doing two festivals. It's like my festival,
Raging Idiots, my group we're headlining, and Russell Dickerson and
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Maddie and Tape. But that's my spot to highlight people
that I think we're just fantastic. And I was like,
we got a call tier. Yeah, I was so excited
when they told me, I hope you do it again,
and so I can play well, have you as God
and these cameras is my witness, So you wantuld do something? Okay,
because you're you're just so good. Let's ask some questions
about you though, And so do you feel like you're
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getting traction? Like good traction and people are listening and
you're like, wow, I'm actually making a difference here. Yeah,
I mean it was kind of weird because I released
my music like during COVID and everything, and so, um,
you know, I kind of just had to see the
response from like online as opposed to like being at
shows and stuff. But um, I mean it's been really cool,
(41:34):
Like people are actually listening to my songs, which feels great,
and um, streaming is doing really well, um, which feels good.
So yeah, I'm feeling great. I have a lot to
talk to you about. I think since you're since you
are new to a lot of the people watching. Now,
let's play a song you're cool with that, do it?
And So her instagram is Tierra Music, which is t
(41:58):
I e r A Music Tierra Music, So if you
want to follow her, I'm just kind of vamping as
you are. You ready? Perfect? All right? What is this
song I'm gonna do? Mouse? Um? It's a song that
I did with my friend Breland Um and he did
like a really cool like rap situation. Um, I can't
do it as well as him, So I'm just gonna
do like the demo version because I can't do it
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like Brelan does. All Right, here we go. You lack
a slowly Sunday. You're good for my soul. You take
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himy places I never thought I could go in my
dash photolige. Yeah, my love on cruise control. Take me
any direction and it's still feel I come. You're putting
my mys on my heart. You keep putting my my
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my on my and I'm loathing and baby Lalla la
la lalla lalla lalla lolla lalla balla la lalla la
(43:34):
la la heella lalla la la bas on And that's awesome.
I love it, love it, love it, love it. I'm
just such a fan tonight for a good night, like
I like dust to lunch. Big fan of you too.
I have a song stuck in my head. When I
came in here, I was like, I hope I remember
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the words of my own lyrics. Wait, what what did
you say? You have a song sung by him? No? Sorry,
I have the same accent, though I should not be
able to his songs stuck in my I'm like, I'm
from Arkansas, you're from Alabama. Yes, pretty similar, except you
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beat this in football. Other than that, world good. Hey,
I do want to play a celebrity game with you
that which would be fun for a second, because I
feel like now like you're starting to grow into where
people are gonna recognize you out and like you gotta
get ready for that and it's like but wonderful at
the same time. So what I'm gonna do is and
Mike'll have the pictures up on the screen, right, Okay,
(44:38):
so they'll they'll get easy when we start. But I'm
gonna show you a celebrity. There's nothing written on him,
there's no context. Just can you name the celebrity? Okay, No,
it's gonna be easy, Okay, Okay, go ahead. That's the rock.
That is the rock. This is not a trick. I'm
bad at games, Okay, who's bad at games? All games? Yeah,
I'm pretty bad. Okay. Named the next one, Courtney Dashian
(45:01):
That is correct? Did you know? Fun fact? I was
watching because I watch housewives and my fiance some of them.
We don't watch all the cities, but we watched Beverly Hills,
we watched New York. We watch I don't know some
other cities too. But we were talking about some Beverly
Hills stuff. And she didn't know Travis Barker except for
(45:23):
being Courtney Kardashian's boyfriend. Do you know Travis Barker from music?
You don't either, do you what if you had to
guess what band? Do you know who? But do you
know who he is now? Right? Who he's with her,
all the tattoos? Yes, if you tell me the band,
then I'll like put it together. But if you had
to not, no, I can't guess it is a rock band. Yeah,
(45:47):
And I was blown away. It was Blink one right,
and he's the drummer. And she was like, I don't
know any of those songs? Yeah, And I said, so
I sang on one and I said all the small things.
She was like, I don't know that one and I
was like never do you know? It took home. It
was a Friday night, we walk alone. We got the
(46:08):
Feeling ride started making now nothing is that like on
commercials and stuff. That's their biggest song. That's my age. Man.
Sometimes like like I stay, I stay in shape, like
I tried, I'm on, I'm on TikTok as much as anybody,
but sometimes you just feel older. It just hits when
people know it's true, it's true. All right? Can you
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name this celebrity? Shoot, I don't know her name, but
I know she's from a stranger things. Is Millie Millie
Bobby bro that's it? Yes, okay, very good, Millie Bobby Brown. Okay,
can you name this one? M hmm, No, but she
has three names too. No, I don't know her name,
(46:51):
don't know. She's from some like Disney movie that I watched, ish, Yeah,
Freaky Friday. The yogurt commerce shore where you poop if
you're old or something. I'm not sure where the yoga
she sells. That's Jamie Lee Curtis. Okay, you know what
the yogurt is like, it makes you regular activia? Yeah? Nice?
All right? You name this guy? Um? Uh no, no, no,
(47:20):
I don't know. I don't know his name, but I
know he's uh the dude, the water dude. That what
we'll accept water dude. Water dude is Jason Momoa. Oh um,
why am I blanking? Uh? Not Lougan Paul? But but
(47:42):
shoot far it's not Logan. You're like my grandma, but
way younger and cooler. Well we'll shoot fire dang. What's
his name? Brother? Right? Last one? If you get this,
you win. You get to play another song. But if
you don't. If you don't, you have to play another song. Okay,
(48:03):
m hmm, Yeah, I can't help you. I don't know.
I've never even seen him before. I've definitely have I
seen him. Is he like a child actor? He was
Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement? Would have never yet
sed up? Okay, but you know this one though? I know,
I know that she's Is she like a TikTok? That's
(48:23):
good enough, Charlie Damelio. Okay, all right, there you go.
Well you didn't get it, so now you have to
play another song by punishment? Can because I know so
much of the music that you do? Um? Can I
request a song that's terrifying? Would you do? Found it
(48:43):
in you? Sure? Yeah? I can do that. Why was
that terrifying? Because I can request any song in the
whole world? Yeah, you could, but I don't know that.
I don't know that. It was just scary. I guess
sur mell and song, so I should not be terrified.
So you're terrified of your own songs and games. You know,
she's got a lot of fear. It is a lot
of weird fears, rified of the unexed affected. Okay, well
that's this whole career, I know. Yeah, you started clowns
(49:05):
by any chance. Yeah, Terri ab out of everything. I'm
all right here. It is. This is founded in you, Frontier.
You're the phone call picking up in the middle of
(49:27):
the n eye. You're the patients. I don't have one
thing same. You're the you can do it baby email
and I don't want to try. But Mama always said,
really good, a little just hard to find. But I
(49:47):
found it in you, every little thing I was missing,
baby meal didn't kind of crazy. You got to the
hot on meable, the best part of me in any you,
confidence and one. I can be happy just cause it
temp me. The you got me all ben I was
(50:08):
looking for. I ain't got a little no more. I
found in you, you Vanity, Vanity found it in you. Yeah, yeah,
(50:32):
found it any you Every little thing I was missing, Babe,
love me ant even kind of crazy. You got to
the heart of me, every part of the vanity, you
the confelence and on. And I can be happy just
cause it temp me the you got me all ben
(50:54):
I was looking for. I ain't got a little no more.
I count in ay you Yeah, in so good Tierra Music.
On Instagram, people are asking how do they see you out?
(51:17):
Like if to play music? Um, I'm playing Watershed Festival,
um August first, so that would be fun. Which is Watershed?
I've played Watershed? Is that the in Seattle? Is that
up George, Washington? Okay, the Gorge. It's in the Gorge.
It's the greatest. Yeah. And that's up in northwest or
in northwest north Arkansas, in the northwest part of the country.
(51:38):
It is the coolest place. Even been up there. I've
only been to two states of my entire life. So okay,
let's let's go. Let's seven a second. You've been to Alabama, Tennessee. Um,
okay three Alabama, Tennessee, Maryland, and Florida. So forth. That's it. Well,
that's not a lot, but that just multiplied pretty quick.
You went from to I'm sorry, but I feel like,
(51:59):
compared to everyone else the world, four is not a lot.
You're playing Watershed. That's amazing. Yeah, I'm excited. We're on
the air in Seattle. I'm gonna make sure to tell
all of them to go when they go up there,
to make sure to spend some time. Yeah. That's then
we got to get you into more states. I know, well,
I just want to like play everywhere and travel everywhere.
Any any other shows that you have booked yet? Are
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we waiting to see as things aren't open up? No, yeah, yeah,
we're just waiting. All I know is you didn't play
Bobby Fest. I'm sorry. We could have put you in
more states. I'm sorry. Sorry. I'm getting married, Bobby, So yeah,
what's happening with that? We get married in October, so
it's right around the corner um and we're done with planning.
(52:40):
So now we're just waiting. And so do you have
the honeymoon? Where are you going? We run to the Maldives.
It's like, Dustin, I even know where that is you're
talking about. In the States. You're saying places I can't
even find on a map. I know. Well, it's like
my first time like going out of the country. So
I'm excited. That's cool. Yeah, I didn't get leave the
countryuntil I was in my twenty or something. We never
want to vacation, were so as a kid, we didn't
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want vacations and so but when I started travel around,
I thought it was so cool and I'd be like
in an airport, like honestly got to be like in
an airport in Idaho, and I would go, this is
the coolest thing. I never thought being from Mountain Pine, Arkansas,
I would get to be in Idaho. Well, it's pretty cool,
like seeing different countries and seeing how other people live
their life, because I feel like you're in a bubble.
Wherever you live, You're in this kind of bubble, and
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it's really cool to see just you know, this whole
big world out there. I am super excited for you
to be getting married. I'm excited that you're just gonna
be like in this orbit for a long time, because
not only do you deserve to be, Like I said,
the system is broken. If in the next coupled a
few years you're not a star, this is it's broken.
And I would say I quit, but i'd lie because
(53:42):
I'm not quitting. But I still I'm rooting for you hard.
Thank you. You have an ep that's out now and
so people can listen to that. Are you writing new
music for are you record? Like what's happening with that process? Yeah?
More music is coming um. And just got off of
a ridership treat and we wrote some pretty dank songs. UM.
So there's gonna be some sort of extension to the
(54:04):
EP UM at some point. Would you guys follow her
Tira Music at Tira Music. She is just one of
my favorites and I haven't tried to pay her to
play music and my festival. I was like, I will
pay you literally Monday too, and she said I'd really
get married and then, you know what, good for her,
That's what I say, Good for her. You're a real treat.
(54:24):
Thank you for comming the Friday Morning Conversation with Tierra. So,
Tierra is being featured on our National Countdown this week.
I Tierra gonna see you, and I tell you, I
was just going through some YouTube videos and I saw
you sing and ring a fire. One of my friends
send it over. Yeah, and I don't hear a lot
(54:45):
of a lot of women do ring a fire, honestly. Yeah.
I mean, I so I used to play at Chick
fil A back home, and we would do like a
writer's round. Yes, where his home? I need to know
where this chick fil A is where there's a writer's round.
I'm from Birmingham but actually from like a suburb of
Birmingham's called Gardenville, um. And so I would play with
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these like bluegrass guys and they just like taught me
a bunch of country music and Ring of Fire was
one of the first ones. So yeah, we'd we'd sing
Ring of Fire. Would people come to chick fil A
to watch the writer's round? They did. That's the greatest
thing I've ever heard. I love both of those things.
I know we also got free chick fil A out
of it, so that's always great. Dang, Okay, well, I
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do want to get to know you a little bit.
But let's hear Ring of Fire as if we were
have a number two. Please you got it right? Here
is Tierra by the way, follow her or you can
see what she looks like right now at Tierra Music.
All right, Tiera, when you're ready, the visit burning thing
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and it makes a favery BWn by desire. I feel
into ring a Fire. I feel into a burning a
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ring of fire. I went down, down, down in the flames,
went higher, an it burns, burns, burns than a ring
of fire, that a ring of fire. I feel into
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burning a ring of fire. I went down, down, down
in flames and win higher and it burns, burns, burns
than a ring of fire that a ring of fire.
Come on, I've heard that song ten thousand ways from
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you know, being here in Nashville or being on American Idol.
Everybody that comes on American I don't wants to do
that song, and I'm like, everybody's done it. However, you
do that so good? It just slightly different that it works. Yeah,
it's just like a tablet slower. You know. That's cool.
Tiara is here and that's how I found you. Honestly,
was going through some music and I was like, actually
(57:21):
kills that song, and then I started checking out your
EP You have an EPizza out by the way. Cameron's here,
who wrote a lot of these songs with you? Right, yes,
Cameron Badell. So he uh, we wrote a lot of
the songs and he also produced the whole thing. So Cameron,
what do you not do? Cameron walked in and was
like from which tall and I have a just a
huge love for which talk Kansas And then he looks
at Morgan and goes, we went to high school together
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and dank. So when did you Tiara? When did you
move from Alabama up to Nashville? Um? I moved here
three years ago. Um, and I did the whole thing, like,
you know, traveling back and forth. Um, you know, from
a hometown to Nashville, and um, after a year in college,
I finally convinced my parents to move up here with me,
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so that they moved up here too. Yeah, and they're
still here, loving it. So with what you've been able
to do so far, I know you played at the Bluebird,
Which isn't that the craziest also coolest thing. Yeah. Yeah,
it was like one of my first performances here in Nashville,
which was wild. Um, but it's also like super nerve
wracking because it's like one of the few places where
before like actually listening. Um. But yeah, I love it.
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It was super fun. And they're sitting like I don't
know if you've played the round or you played the stage,
but they're sitting like right on your elbow. They're eating
too sometimes it's the right on you. Yeah, I've done
the one on on the stage and also in the round,
and yeah, it's it's crazy, but I mean that's what
That's why I fell in love with with Nashville and
country music is like, you know, I feel like you
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don't really get those kinds of writers rounds everywhere. So
it's a cool experience. I saw a picture of you
in Shania Twain. How did that come together? How did
you meet her? Yeah? So I was on this show
called Real Country, Um, and it was a music competition show,
um here in Nashville, and um it was Shania Twain,
Travis Tritt, um J, and Jake Owen. Yeah, and Shania
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was my like I was on her team. Um and
I mean that was it was so random. She just
like invited me to be on the show, and um,
I got to like be mentored by her, and um,
she's been. She's been so great even after the show,
like you know, commenting on on Instagram posts and stuff
and just being supportive of my music. So how did
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you not win the or did you win the show?
I don't know who won the show. So I won
my episode, but I didn't win the whole thing. Who
in the world beat you? Like, seriously, you know who
won the show? I don't want on the show? Um,
Jada Dryer. She's awesome. I know Jada dry Okay, yeah,
she is actually awesome. I want to say she's awesome,
or I'd say both equally awesome and they had to
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make a very tough decision. That's what I would say. Okay,
all right, Tierra is here, let's do UM. If you
don't mind, I want to do one of your songs.
I want will you play not your Girl place a
little bit of that? Tell me about this song first, Yeah, so, UM,
I kind of wrote it from don't laugh. I gotta
wrote it from like a relationship perspective, UM. But really
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the song is about UM. When I first moved to Nashville,
it was really important for me to like figure out
who I was as an artist before anybody else could
tell me UM, because I feel like it's super easy
to just like be swayed in one direction and have
people tell you what your music should sound like, what
your brand should be. UM. And so it was important
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for me to like figure that out before somebody else
told me too. So that's kind of like the whole
premise of the song. It's like, I'm not a girl,
can't can't control me. It's interesting because you know, when
I just see the title, I heard the song, I
would think it was a relationship song, and then you
describe it as you know you, your perspective and a career.
It reminds me of um, I'm not going to write
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you a love song by Sarah Barellis. But you hear
that and you go, she's talking to some dude, I'm
not gonna write you a love But then you find
out she don't wrote that song because she's telling her label,
I'm not writing you a love song. Yeah you are.
You're fueling Cameron right now because he literally said that
in the right I so did not. I so did
not want to write this song because I was like,
I don't want people to think that I'm just like craping,
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crapping on them. But I mean it was just my
truth and he just um encouraged me to write her
because she's the type of girl that is This song
is couldn't be more true. She sticks to her guns
and she's like, this is who I am, this is
what I do, And it's a breath fresh air to
produce something like that. You know. Okay, well, let's hear
let's hear some of not your Girl from Tiara. Let's
get hoo hoo hoo hoo oo all the room that's
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about you hesitate, so before diving, let's get a few
things straight. If you want that picture perfect version of
the same old thing, then I'll thank you for the drinking.
I'll be on my way. I'm not sugar for you
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must have me mistaken for someone. Hey, gonna switch it
up for you. Lucky for you, this plenty and go
would do whatever just to fit the molda cave view
what I'm not so if you're looking for that typical
(01:02:37):
uh ha ha, I'm not too girl. No oh god,
it's great. Thank you. There is no reason that you
shouldn't be a massive star in this town in this format.
(01:02:58):
I don't ever throw that around, but there's just your
so good. You're just so good. Thank you appreciate it.
There is no reason that in a year you're not
in here with the number one song ready to hit
two and three. There's just if that doesn't happen. This
town has let me down. Well listen, I feel like
you're known for manifesting people's career. So I will take that,
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and I don't say that. Sometimes people come in and
I'm like, all right, you get to work and we'll see.
But you're you're so good and you're so good talking
on a microphone. Some are to struggle when they're new,
Like you come and you own it. It's fantastic. Thank you. Um,
just you guys. Check out her music. She has a
self titled EP. It's I'm assuming it's called Tierra. Yeah,
(01:03:39):
why one name? Why? What's what's the deal here? Um?
Because there's not another Tierra? So like why not? Also
my last name is like a little it's a little
difficult anyways. I don't love my last name, so just
the one name. She's there, you go, I get you,
(01:04:01):
I get you. Well, Um, you're you just got engaged
last year though, right yeah, yeah, almost like exactly year ago. Um,
and we're gonna married this fall. Oh so you're planning
it to happen right when you can't because we are too.
We're doing ours in August, and so it's kind of
we're kind of put into that spot where we feel
like we can have it and have all the people there. Yeah,
(01:04:21):
I mean I feel like bog October. Hopefully we can
have all the people there because truthfully, like he has
most of the guest list because he has such a
big family. Um and so yeah, I'm hoping we can
have all the people and um they love to party,
so it'll be a good time. How did he propose? Um?
So he is a filmmaker, Um, so he's he was like,
(01:04:44):
let's go out to Huntsville, Alabama, um, and like just
take some pictures. Like we do that all the time.
We have like content days and just like have fun
take pictures. Um. So we went out there and we
went to this bridge and he set his camera down
and he was like, we're gonna do this really cool
like Sloma video. We're gonna like turn around and face
our backs to each other and then we're gonna turn
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on super fast and like be facing each other whatever.
And so when I turned around, he was on one
knee and then her family came up like screaming, like
it was like twenty of them. Um. So it was
it was a moment. That's really cool. Congratulations, thank you.
Before I let you guys go into and ask this beforehand,
do you guys want to play a little bit of
shut it down. You have to retune. Can you do
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a little bit of that? Or no? Do it here?
She has one final time. This is tiera A usually
don't say out this ly this side of mino. Don't
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know my name but these days, but it's show sounds
good and fuel close tonight it's DIFFI and called sit
by sit. You made me want to shut it down?
Stay out to the morning. Likely loose track cuts my
doom breaking all the week queues. If you spin me
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around out on the fun kiss me, can't tell me
if your by me one more going, I swear you're
gonna be surround. Maybe want to shut it down? Who
wh who who? Oh yeah, you made me want to
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dance all now a boy, I'm talking toil. They put
the chain on the knee, all out going? You holding me,
I don't fall leave like, hey, what can I say?
I know it's getting kind of la, but you maybe
want to shut it down? Stay out to the morning
(01:06:56):
like leave loose track cudsime, No, we can all awake us.
If you spin me around, I'm on the floor. Kiss me,
can't tell me mules by me one more boy? I
sweat you gonna misson well, maybe want to shut it down?
Who who who whoo. I just can't help myself when
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I'm with you this norm else boy, you don't damn
good will I keep it up? We're gonna shut it down.
I just can't help myself when I'm with you, this
nore else boy, you don't damn good will I keep
it up? We're gonna shut it down. Nice sh Thank
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you you guys, followed Tierra anyone you want to say?
Nothing's just so good. I'm just impressed and thank you
at Tierra Music on Instagram. Are you taking you want
to take? Talk doing the thing over there too? Yet?
I'm there? Am I doing the thing? That's the question? No,
I'm not all right. You'll get there, trust me, Alright's
this thing hold on now? I don't want to say
it's something that came to my hand. Do the thing
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with your voice where you go like really high, like
I wasn't expecting to go back. Maybe that was also
even in the first song. But this sounds so pretty together.
Are you always going to be with her? Yeah? I
mean he we like I feel like this. This this
ep is kind of like, um a reintroduction for me
(01:08:29):
and UM he's super like into R and B country
and I am to U, so it just smash as
well together. And me, how long I've been here? And
I told you been ten years, almost eleven, and I've
been kind of looking to find my way in this
town as an R and B country guy. That's kind
of the two genres that I grew up listening to
and I want to do. But it's like it was
hard to find a place to fit in and like
(01:08:50):
make it work. And then I was like, she's a
golden ticket because she's yeah, thank you guys, thank you
for coming again, big fan, good luck, crush it. I'll
see you again soon when you're like, oh, what's your
name Billy again? Yeah, I see it now. I'm gonna
be that big of a star alright type hands here,
everybody than h
All right here with Tierra, which it has been a
very exciting a few months as I've seen you last,
I mean personal and professional. I just saw I was
flipping through you know, one of the industry websites and
it was like Tierra signs with you know Valerie. Yes, yeah,
(00:25):
And I was like, holy crap, someone was smart enough
to grab her. And you know, obviously I think you're
a humongous star. So how did that? How did those
talks start? Oh my gosh, Well it started in the
middle of me like planning a wedding and we were
in the middle of buying house and then that like sorry,
I gotta get closer. Um, and then all of that happened.
(00:48):
So it was a crazy few months. Um. So I
had released founded in You like during COVID and that
song just did way better and I thought it would
have um, and so labels started reaching out, and UM,
it was kind of just for me. I was just like,
(01:10):
I'm going to talk to these people and like kind
of build a relationship. But I honestly like wasn't looking
to sign a deal yet because it just felt like
there was more that I needed to do by myself. UM.
And then UM, I don't know. I just kind of
got to a point where it's like there's only so
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much I can do by myself, and like radio is
very important to me, and that's something you can only
do with the label. UM. And so I had a
meeting with the A and R girls at Big Machine
and UM and Scott and I went into to that
(01:53):
meeting and I was like, this didn't either go one
of two ways. I can either like really love me
or that's going to go really bad. UM. And I
just like sat down and I started singing my songs
and Scott just kept asking me to sing more. And
it even got to a point where I was like,
I'm running out of songs that I have memorized, Like
(02:14):
I'm gonna start playing some covers at some point. UM.
But he offered me a deal right in that meeting. UM.
And so you know, I did the whole thing and
like talk to all of the labels and UM. I
just I really loved val the Valerie team, UM, because
it was always really important for me to, like, even
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when I do sound a deal, for it to feel
very small and like close in and still like a family.
And that was exactly what that team was. So I
texted Scott, and I don't have a close relationship with Scott,
but I text him and he'll hit me up occasionally
about something big or usually if I if I say
something he disagrees with or but I I text him
almost like man, you got it, you got I mean,
(02:57):
I see everybody and I just am so jaded, and
I said, but you got you have a star. And
I think he was even surprised I texted him. He
was like, thanks, man, So I was. I was very
excited to see that. For you know, I think you're
the best. So I saw you briefly at the Opery.
I think you were going in. Was that your debut nite?
It was? It was, And everybody kept asking me if
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I was nervous, and I thought that I would be
once I got on stage, but I surprisingly wasn't at all.
It was just like very excited because you know, that's
something that you dream of when you moved to Nashville. Um,
and it was just so special because I'm like really
bad at taking a second to appreciate moments, and I
(03:38):
just felt like standing on that stage, I'm like nowhere
near made it, but it just felt like everything that
I've done up until that point, I could just like
appreciate it on that stage. Um, so it was really
special when you played that first time. Were you able
to actually see people's faces in the crowd, meaning could
you take it in? Because the first time I played,
(03:59):
I couldn't. Yeah, it was blurry. Yeah. So I saw
him my parents, UM, and those are like really only
the people that mattered. Um, they were literally like right
in front of me. And I was singing a song
that's not released yet, but um it's just about like
how I got into country music and everything, and um
(04:21):
it's like kind of an emotional song for me. And
I looked out and I saw my parents, and I'm
surprised I didn't cry. I really thought I was gonna cry,
like on my debut moment, but I didn't. Um. So yeah,
I feel like I got to take it all in.
I think the second time, I'm really going to be
able to take it all in because I already told me, like,
(04:41):
once you get on stage, just take a second, like
don't start talking, just like look out into the crowd.
And I kind of did that, but I feel like
not fully. The second time is the most fun because
it's for you the first time. It's for you, but
it's also for everybody who's been on the ride with you.
And there's a whole there's a lot of people, there's
cameras are documenting it, there's a sign, and so it's
(05:03):
like sensory overload. Yeah, the second time you go, it's
just normal. You walk down the hall, you get the
dressing room, you go out, you take some deep breaths,
and you perform. It's awesome. You'll love that. I enjoyed
the second time way more than the first because the
first I was like, and I tell jokes, and so
I don't have a talent like you do. I have
to go out and be funny and so which I
(05:25):
feel like it's even harder. I was just like, oh,
if I bond these jokes because I'm nervous, you know,
it's gonna everybody's gonna be upset. They spent all night
making that they had a cake because the whole thing.
But I was super proud of you. It's awesome, that's
super cool. I feel like, you know, I can't wait
until you're a massive start and I'm like, look, guys,
I'm on tape here. Wait Before she had a deal
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saying how big of a star she is. I know,
well I appreciate it. I Like, I'm not just saying
this because I'm here. I feel like I tell you
this every time, but I literally remember just like sitting
in my room in Birmingham, and I would like, I
just saw how supportive you were of all of these artists,
and you know, like everything you did for Kelsey and
(06:06):
it was just so cool to me. So I promise
I'm not saying this, but like being on your show
was like right up under making my Aprey debut because
you're just like you're just so word of everybody. So
you were on the radio show earlier this year, but
I remember you. You had brought it up to me
because I didn't remember you sending a YouTube video back
(06:27):
in yes, and you were like, I've actually been on
your show and I was like, no, you have it,
and you're like, no, no, no, I send a video
doing girl Crushed by a little big town. We have?
Is this a clip from the story or clip in
the video? YouTube video we have? This is from? I
haven't heard this yet. I knew Mike had something. Okay,
let's hear it. Hey y'all, my name's Tierra and this
is my cover of girl Crushed by a Little Big Town.
(06:49):
And this is for the Bobby Bone Show, So I
hope you'll watch it. Got a co coach, Hey you
to And in the it sounds really good. Usually when
we go back into the archives and pull something from
five or six years ago, you know, we get a
good laugh. Now you sound great here. Well, it's the
(07:09):
accent for me, it's just like very prominent. Yes, it
is when I was because I grew up in Arkansas,
and so when I started to want to do this
radio TV, I went and took a class to lose
my accent, like I went to I went to many classes,
like hours and hours of speech pathology. But now I
don't want to lose it's it's kind of you know,
(07:31):
it is me. Forever I was trying to not be
me because I was kind of embarrassed to who I
was and how I grew up. And now it's like
I'm proud of who I am, not that I wasn't.
I just didn't know that I should be proud of
it because everybody told me I shouldn't be. But did
you lose your accent? Now you you can't fully get
it back. Or do you still have an accent? I
don't know. I can't tell. I don't know what that.
But you're also from the South, so it's hard for
us to hear a distinct accent unless it's real thick,
(07:54):
like that's how I used to talk like that. I
learned about eyes because all my sound like this. No, yes,
but I learned as how. I would say it's growing up,
but I can't imagine you're talking and eyes how I
say it now? So you learn ice cream? Ice cream?
You know? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, I mean, yeah,
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I was. I guess I was. You used to have
the eyes. Don't lose the eyes, No, But it depends
on who I'm talking to you, because if I'm talking
to somebody that's like more northern, then I do have
a more northern but I do the same thing. We
need to talk to the British people, like I've called
myself like it's really bad, but yeah, I'm only like
super southern when I'm around more Southern people. When I
(08:37):
get tired, it comes out a lot like I or
if I'm back home for a long time. But the
biggest ones for me were eyes and I n G
because I would never put the G on it. I
was working, yeah, but it's working. But my friends from
the North are friends from you know, the Midwest. They
can really tell I have an accent, but most people
(08:58):
in the South are like, dang, fancy, well, you don't
have an AX anymore, but I do. It's just we are.
That is so odd because I cannot imagine you with
this other next I have no I still have one.
You're crazy right now for thinking I don't have one
right now. But I digress to talking about me. So Mike,
can we play the song that she was talking about? Um? Earlier,
I founded in you, but that I was miss listen
(09:26):
kind of crazy is right on me. So tell me
about this song. This is track one. You mentioned it earlier,
So talk about because you wrote this. You and Cameron
wrote this song together, and you guys wrote a lot together. Yes, yeah, so, Um,
(09:50):
I have been in Nashville for a while before you
wrote that song. UM, And I don't think I had
to deal. Yeah, No, I didn't have a publishing deal
at that point, so I was is kind of writing
with anybody that I could. Um, I didn't really have
a sound yet. I didn't really know what I was
writing for UM, and Cameron reached out to me and
(10:14):
just acts if I wanted to ride, and so this
was our first write together. It was just a two way,
which is like terrifying. UM, but because you have to
talk in a two way, like you have to provide
ideas right and if it's just like if the vibe
is not there. Was it the first time you guys
are written together? Yeah, yeah, yeah, UM, But thankfully it
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worked out and we wrote this song. And it wasn't
until after the right after he sent me the demo
that I just like fell in love with the song
and I was like, this, this was everything that I've
been searching for, that sound that I was looking for,
because before then I was just kind of um listening
to everyone else's music in Nashville and like trying to
(10:59):
put it together there to make my sound, which was
not working out at all. UM. And he's kind of
got this like R and B thing to him because
he grew up listening to that kind of music. UM,
and I did too, but like reluctantly, like my parents
were played around the house and I wanted them to
turn off because I didn't want to listen to it. Um.
(11:19):
But that's just in me because that's what I, you know,
grew up listening to. And so I feel like that
song is the perfect mesh of R and B and country. Um.
And so yeah, we wrote that and then we just
kind of started writing more. And I had to convince
him to become my producer because he's never done anything
like that before. But I was like, this is just
(11:40):
too good and I'm not going to find anybody else
like this. UM. So yeah, that song just kind of
started all three. It's a very special one. The new
song I played on my show a couple of days ago. Gentlemen,
and this song here, you wrote this for your husband,
But did you write it before he was your husband?
I wrote it two years for even propos I was committed.
(12:04):
Um we I think some money just throughout there, like
you don't have to be a gentleman. And then one
of us was like tonight and we're like, oh, that's saucy.
We like that. Um and like we we did have
a conversation like can we say this, like this is
a little too much, but we just went for it,
and um, I played it for a lot of people
(12:27):
and everybody loved it, and nobody was really like, oh this,
like this is too much. So I just was like,
I'll release it after my wedding, so it's acceptable. Nobody
can say anything. Play a clip up in here when
we come all out, like I'm just saying it out
(12:50):
of line if you don't want to be still this.
So let's talk about the wedding. You got married about
a month and a week but weeks ago. It was great. Um.
I honestly, I think that both of us kind of
we like kind of wanted to get over with in
the best way because it was like I planned the
(13:13):
whole thing, well both of us, most with me, but
we played the whole thing. We didn't have a wedding planner,
and I was just so ready to get all of
that over with. I'm also not the best at being
the center of attention when I'm not an artist mode. Yeah,
so it was kind of hard. Like everybody always says
that your wedding goes by super fast, but I felt
(13:35):
like it was going by so slow. Like once we
got to the reception part, I was like, can we
get through these toes? Can we get through the cake cutting?
And just dance because that's all I want to do
because I don't want everybody looking at me. Um. But
it was. It was a good wedding. We had about
like two d one that we had like one seventy okay,
big wedding. Well of the guest list was him because
(13:56):
he has a huge family. I wanted like maybe eighty people,
but that was not going to happen. Um. But we
had it in Franklin, so all of our families from Birmingham,
they came down and it's a pretty easy trip Birmingham
up here. Yeah, it's only like two and a half
three hours. We had our wedding here at the house
in the back and it's beautiful. Thanks, and everybody kept
(14:18):
going it's gonna fly by. It was when a fine
pace right. Yeah. I took some deep breaths. I mean
I I struggled with my vows a little bit. I
really don't cry that often, but when I really get hit,
I get hit hard. Yeah, I mean it's kind of
how I am. I didn't do them. You didn't know.
I was like a writer like yourself decided you didn't
(14:39):
want to write. No, it's so weird, And everyone kept
saying that, but I just felt so like I just
felt weird about professing my love for him in front
of everyone. So I just kind of wanted to do
that on our own time. At one point, as we
were doing our vows, because I felt that too, I
was like, man, this is a really personal publicly. But
then I realized, I do that for my life, but
(15:01):
I do it in a small room with like three
or four people, so I don't see the people's faces.
When I'm doing the radio show, I get there were
like two people sitting out there, not as many as yours.
I take that back one. We don't have a tearer
wad smaller, and I remember I started to choke up
and I was getting emotional, and then they got a
plane like flew over and I got to stop. I stopped,
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You got to get together, collected everything, plane finished away.
I went back, very thankful that I hired that gotta
fly over right at that time? Did you all do
a first look? No? So did you like feel pressured
to have a reaction? Would you walk them now? Yes? Yes,
And I didn't want to. I was putting pressure on
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myself to maintain composure because I knew that I was
gonna have to watch it back eventually. I knew there'd
be pictures and videos. So the pressure to me was okay,
you need to and up in the terrible phrase and
I don't use it often, and I was like, you get,
but you need to be what you don't want other
men to be, like fake cuff. But you know everybody
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wants you to cry, so it's good that but that's
why I didn't want to. I'm not here to please them.
Get him buy tickets to this I did. I told Cameron.
I was like, if you don't cry, I'm literally turning
my ground. But I didn't. He didn't even He's not
an emotional person, so it wasn't he did not cry.
I'm not an emotional person either, until I just get
like wrecking bald and when she was walking down that's
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when I lost it. And the r DJ who I
used to listen to on the radio when I was
a kid, so I hired it from markets how to Come,
you know, the be the DJ. He was like, hey,
you should take this with you because you may cry,
and he handed me at like a handker Jeff, and
I was like stop. It was like, yeah, what are
you talking about? And I don't need this? Thank god
he did because I pulled it out, you know, four
times in the middle of it. But it was awesome.
I'm glad you. I'm glad it happened because I was
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trying to get to come play a festival with this
and you were going on your honeymoon. How that end up?
It was fine. Um, we went to the Maldives and
I know, yeah, it was good. We um. We were
on this resort like they only had like thirty villas
and I don't even think it was full. So they're like,
weren't a lot of people on this island at all. Um.
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So it was nice because we don't ever relax. We're
always working. Um, and we kind of did work a
little bit on the honeymoon. But I'm talking about the
bachelorette party. That's where it was. I said that, I'm confused,
they're all trips that yes, the honeymoon, Okay, the honeymoon
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was aldis bachelorette we went to uh was it start
to the p It's in um, Florida. No, no, no, no, no,
uh no no, it's actually our Rosemary Beach. We went
to Rosemary. I never want to guess that. Yeah, I know, Um,
it was fun, That's what I'm thinking. Of when I
tried to get you come out and place and festivals
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with us, but you had that weekend. Yeah, yeah, it
was a good time. Well are you now gathered? Do
you feel as marriage? Does it feel like there's a
bit of stability even though you had it, you didn't
have it, but now you have it? Definitely, Like I'm
glad that I like can. I was more so happy
about the last name, Like I really wanted to take
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his last name, um, because I never told anyone, like
what my actual name was because they're just not that
hated it, but like people always made jokes about it,
and it was just so annoying. But his last name
is Kennedy, very normal. Now I'm all curious about what
our original list name it's left, which yes, some people did,
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which was also like kind of it wasn't annoying. But
like I know nothing about him, Like he's a distant cousin,
so because a cousin, that's freaking cool. But I know
nothing about he's the offensive coordinator now for Tampa Bay,
for the Buccaneers. He's the player Jacksonville. Okay, go ahead,
I think that's what I would have thought. I didn't
know that well, but other people would be like, oh right,
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which like sandwich, and it's just like okay, whatever, So
I just never told people. The weird part about our
last name is so my real last name is a Stell,
and so that's my name, Bobby A Stell. But when
I was younger, seventeen, they kind of forced the name
Bones on me, and so I lived this and I
tried to shake Bones forever. O, how how can you
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give me like the condensed version of how that happened? Bones? Yeah,
I feel like I know how it happened. There's no story.
I was a teenager star and they're like, your name
is either Bones or Bobby Z. And I was like,
well they're both stupid. Wait, because they didn't like your
last name. They want they wanted like a radio named
to like pop. So I was like, I guess I'll
take the one that sounds like a pirate. And everywhere
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I went, I was connected to the last place, so
I couldn't shake it. So the weird thing for Caitlin,
my wife, is that her name was Caitlin Parker, but
she took my and she wasn't gonna go by Caitlin Bone.
She had rather be dead, and so her name is
Caitlyn Astell, and here I am. I don't even have
the same People don't even know me as the same
last name as my wife, So there's a weird But
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no one even knows you except by I mean, I
guess there's a similarity. They're kind of a parallel. Yeah, yeah,
no one really does know any last name from you whatsoever. Yeah, no,
I'm I was very adamant about not using my last
but I also feel like no one else, at least
in country music, like has Tira, so you know why not?
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And who has one name that didn't start with two names?
Meaning people have grown into having one name. I don't
know because like ar three but Dolly but all had
last names right, also like Beyonce. I don't know. But
I'm saying I'm just original. You are. You're just original.
You came out brave and you're like, I don't need
the last name from the start. So now, what does
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it mean though that you have a label deal? What
does it mean? Like, what's the day to day change
in your life now that you have a record label
that can promote you? Oh? I mean I feel like
the biggest changes that I have to let go of
a lot of control, UM, because I was one of
those independent artists, like I did every single aspect of
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like I was a part of all of it, you know,
releasing my music and everything, UM. And so you know,
it's it's definitely hard to release that control and let
other people even even something as simple as like uploading
my music to be like you know, on all the
streaming services, Like that's so hard for me because I'm
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so used to doing that. UM. But yeah, I don't know.
I honestly, I think that's the biggest change. And obviously
they have the power to like, UM, make me a
bigger star money you give up control. I mean, I
have to do this too, you know, he signed with
a big funny They can make your star. Yeah, but
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it takes you for the first time going all right,
I'll do what you say for the most part. You
have to kind of pick your battles. Yeah. But also
the great thing about Valerie UM and also Scott, like
I I was very adamant when I was taking meetings
about UM keeping my music in the brand and everything
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the same, Like I didn't want to sign and then
be a completely a different artist. UM. And so they've
been super cool with let me do my thing, you know,
like when it comes to the creative and and the
songs that we're choosing to record. Um, so you know,
like I've had to let go of some control in
some aspects, but it's not like they're not taking it
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and like trying to make me something I'm not, which
is great. Who do you feel like musically? Are people
that maybe not even on purpose and somewhat purposeful, like
you have taken a lot from like you are you
are the product of who musically? Oh like my sound
or just your sound, your likes, just you know, the
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the whole Tierra, Like, where do you come from? Musically? Um?
I mean I think it goes back to like what
my parents were playing in the house, Like you know,
like we would listen to a lot of like a
shanty and um, you know, like like boys, men and
stuff like that. Like but I feel like it's it's
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that but also combined with Dolly and um artists like that.
I don't know if you had to do amount. Rushmore
of your favorite artists. My favorite artists four yeah, which
is four and their heads go up and it's Tierra's mount.
Rushmore of her favorite artists okay, Beyonce and Dolly Um.
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And then after that it gets a little rough. Um um,
why are why are rough? I don't know, because I
just like love both of them so much, like they're
just like the two artists that I'm fully obsessed with. Oh. Also,
this is so random, but like Shelton, like I freaking
love Flake Shelton, so he would be right up there
next to fiance and Dolly Um for the one I
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don't know. I don't know. That's al you have to
add one more head shoot far um Okay, I'm sweating.
Uh and this will always be recorded and will always
be home. Yes, I don't know, Bobby, I don't know.
Can you let me think about it. I'll come back
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to you. Yeah, come back to it. I did see
you in Nashville Lifestyle Most Beautiful People, Yes, with you
on the cover you. Yeah, that was really cool. I'm
pretty sure I was looking like real Dusty Krusty when
they told me that I was one of the most
beautiful people, So it's cool. Did they call you and
tell you? How did that happen? Un injured? I think
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she either like text me or called me and told me.
And was it for me? And this is this is
gonna be the difference in you and I. For me,
whenever someone puts me on a most beautiful list, I
think they're doing it to make fun of me. Like
I literally think that I'm gonna be vulnerable with you
for a second. I've never been a beautiful person, meaning physically,
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I've always been made fun of. I've always been the ugly,
weird kid, and as I've gotten older, I've just come
to terms with it. Right, So they call in there
and they say, hey, most beautiful, and at first I
think they're just calling me, and I'm like, great, they're
putting me up there. I'm gonna get harassed so bad
because I'm not beautiful. I know all my friends people
are gonna be like, how do you make it? And
then like, we'd also like to put you and your
wife on because we've never done a couple before. And
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I'm like, oh, they just wanted her and they knew
she wouldn't do it unless I was with her, so ill.
But I always go and guarded like that because that
was made fun forever. But for you, when they say, hey,
you're one of nashville most beautiful people, you've gotta be
pretty pumped. It's a big look. I know. I definitely was. Um.
I also was like, my mind goes to like, oh,
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my gosh, I hope people are like, aren't looking at
me like, oh she's snobby, Like she thinks she's beautiful.
You know, So they had both of our minds probably
went to something that we hold on too, like some
past trauma of some sort. Yes, oh god, we're here.
I'm just saying if we both felt that way whenever
someone said, hey, you get this, and we we kind
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of recoil in different ways. Yeah, No, totally. Yeah, I
definitely have a problem with like, um, thinking too much
about what other people think about me. Yeah, don't look
at me like that. I just I wonder, and I
guess I have trouble with someone thinking ill about you
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without knowing you, because you are just generally one of
the warmest people from the moment I met you on
thanks and so if you were you know, if some
dude as any was a douche from minute I met him,
but then I grew to like him, I would understand that.
I'd be like, oh yeah, terrible, terrible, yes, but they'll
see yeah, but I don't know you. I never ever
got a vide from but I mean, um, yeah, I
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don't know. They're I don't know. Have you had anybody
cool reach out that you think is cool, maybe a
cool writer in town, an artist be like, hey, your
music is really good. Um yeah, I mean so Carly
Pierce and Kelsey Bellerini, they've been super super supportive. Um
An Hillary Scott and those were really cool for me because, um,
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when I was in Birmingham, I would look at all
of their careers and just kind of kind of learned
the ropes of Nashville from looking at them. Like I
was upset the first time I met with Carly, I
told her this, like, I have her first album, her
first EP that she released before she was even signed
to a record record label. Um, I have it on
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my phone. So I was like, I was like an
O G fan. And so it's really cool to be
friends with them now Scott Borsheta, Carly. It's also that
relationship Kelsey Ballerini. Me. Yes, I remember I met Kelsey
as she was just a songwriter, barely just moved to town,
and I was like, holy crap, you're good. And we
used to drive around in a car all across the
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southeast and playing restaurants. Really, she would run the back seat,
I'd ride and we would have hurt. Next we played
we go with Thursday. We'd leave and played two or
three shows and then we would get back Sunday and
then I'd go back and Yeah, her first ever touring
was with me, and I was like, Hey, we're gonna
go play this. We played a museum once for like
I don't know, nine people. Oh it was. It was terrible,
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but it was awesome. We played a mall once. Is
this when she first very first? We played a mall
once and they put a tent up in the middle
of the mall for our dressing room. But you can't
leave the tent, so we haven't played the mall. And
then people just waited outside the tent. It was like
hundreds of people, and so we said and we were
happy because we had to hang out with people, but
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it set us back on our drive to the next
town all about four hours. But it was the worst
idea for addressing him. A tent in the middle of
the mall. They were just hanging out the tent. Well,
after you're done, yeah, and we did, and so did
everybody else. Um, that kind of gives me PTSD because
when I first moved, you know, people like they'll play downtown,
like when like there's like four hour sets downtown. So
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I never did that, but I played at the mall.
I played at the Cool Springs Mall, and they were
like one two hour sets. But it is the most
like sometimes the most soul crushing thing because like people
either love you and they'll like sit there and watch you,
or they don't give two crabs about you. And that
was like that was kind of a tough time for
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me because that was like my equivalent to playing downtown.
What was playing at the mall? Like you go and
play all covers? Do you throwing originals? I would play
all covers. Sometimes I would throw in originals if I
had like had a crowd already, um, But mostly it
was you know, all the songs that people know, like
I've played, um, all of Shania Joe Lane. Yeah. Would
you ever get a pretty good crowd and they would
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sit for a few songs or was that good? Sometimes? Yeah?
I mean it really just depends on the day, um,
you know, because there were some days where they were
like a lot of people in the mall and I
would have people um, sit and watch and um, it
was good. The tips were good, and sometimes I like
wouldn't get tips at all because nobody Like sometimes I
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would have a crowd, but like nobody would would you
ever say, I guess feel pretty tip right there? Or
did you have a guitar case? So really so bad
at that? I think I think I got to the
point where I'm just like put a sign up. But
I'm really bad at asking for things, especially money, So
I never did that. What does that gig pay though?
No tips? Um um anything. I would make like a
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hundred bucks for a couple of hours. I just played
an hour and they pay you a hundred bucks for
an hour. They didn't pay me, only got to you,
only got yes yes tips it. How did you get
that job? Did you go on audition? Um? I I
lived close to there, and I think maybe I knew
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another artist that was playing the mall and I just
asked him how they how they got the gig? And
the move will be once you have a couple of hits,
to sneak back over and play the same spot and
record you playing it again and show them side by side,
just to show people that are playing them all now, Yeah, like, Hey,
I was playing them all a couple of years ago. Yeah, yeah, No,
I'm definitely glad that I did that because I don't know,
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I'm all about UM. I want to feel like I
earned something. And the fact that I played at the mall,
and you know, I played at other restaurants around Nashville.
Like the fact that I did that and you know,
had those hard days, it definitely makes me grateful for
the things that I have. Now. I can ask you
a question about your husband before we wrap up here.
But you posted a picture of a camera that you
(31:54):
wanted to buy and then he slid in your d
M S. Is that how that happened? It kind of
wallowed me through the situation here. Yes, Okay, if you
asked him this question, he will tell a completely different
story than me. But we kind of knew each other
through his brother because I went to school with his brother,
and UM, we passed each other at Panera bread Me
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and Cameron UM, and we like locked eyes and he
emailed me at one point and like so that he
wanted to work together and I was like, no, I'm busy,
and so we didn't talk for like a year after that,
and then I posted that picture of a camera. Any
messaged me and said that he could help me figure
(32:42):
out how to use my camera, and so we did
face sim and he did help me with my camera. Um,
and then we just like kept talking and um, he's
like kind of been my creative director since the very beginning.
Your family like him, they love him. They actually both
of our families kind of knew each other. So it
was meant my dad is a cop and he worked
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at the airport back in Birmingham, and Cameron said is
also a cop, so I think they like work together
at one point. Pretty cool. Yeah, your mom musical, your
dad musical. My mom sings um just around the house.
She will never sing in front of the ground. But then,
where did it come from with you? What? What what
gave you that liberty to just go like all right,
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I'm gonna do it. I don't know. I've always been
just like a very independent person. And um, like when
I was in high school, it was like in middle school,
like I just needed to figure out what I was
going to do because I wanted to succeed so bad,
like failure was not an option. So I was like
I'm gonna I'm gonna get into this singing thing, and
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I'm gonna do it really really well. So I don't know.
Both my parents like they've always been super supportive of
everything we do. When they're like, we'll let you try
whatever you want, but whatever you pick, like you're gonna
stick to it and you're gonna take the lessons and
do all the things. When did you move here? I
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moved here four years ago. Do you feel like that's
been forever or yesterday? I feel like I've been here
like ten years. When you first moved here as a
brand new writer slash artists slash, You're just hope it's
something sticks, Like what did you do? Did you find
you get an apartment? Did you come in like look
at Nashville since you live close and finding Well, my
parents actually moved up here with me. Yeah. I went
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to college for a year. Um and before then I
was trying to move to Nashville, but they really wanted
me to go to school, UM and just like figure
things out, and so I did for a year. But
my parents were taking trips back and forth with me,
and UM, I was riding with a lot of people
and um taking meetings and everybody said you're you're you
need to move here if this is what you want
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to do. And they just heard that enough. Tim's to
where they were like, okay, that's pretty cool. Congratulations on everything.
Thank you, super pumped for you. Thanks. This is just
you know, this is the start of something that is
going to be life long for you. I'm very proud
of you, very proud to see you here. Thank you,
and always I'll always hold that over your head, that
video you sent in two thousand fifteen, I'll always every
(35:11):
time you come in I remember this. No, the intest
so bad. This is my cover of girl Crushed by
a little Big Town and this is for the Bobby
Bones Show. So it's not like a kid. I do
you are a kid? Though? You are a kid? Yeah.
I used to enter like all of my stuff like
hey all have my name's Tierra, And so now around
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the house camera will just like hope coming to me
and be like, hey all, my name's Tierra. And it's
so embarrassing. What was that even for? I don't remember
that you were doing a contest and whoever did the
best cover of girl Crush got to come in and
play it in studio of jes Girl Crush. Yeah, do
you remember who won that. Have we talked about this?
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I don't remember who. I do remember who went bad?
To remember her name? I remember her face and mine
was better. Just saying I'll leave that there. Who knows?
I don't know. I don't know who she is right now,
you guys, followed Tierra at Tierra Music t I E.
R A Music, Gentleman, is the new song out? It's great?
(36:12):
Is this the single? Or is this just a song
right now that you're like, yeah, it's just kind of
a song I've wanted to release with my wedding, but
it's not the single. When you come in with that,
I don't know. You tell me, I would love to know.
Whenever you're ready and you get it, let me know
back on that. We'll do a big thing on the
radio show again and if you want to play, you
(36:33):
can play. If not, we'll just talk about it. Well,
i'd love to play. Do you still like to play?
Like you still like to sing? Have you? Are you
singed out? No? No, no, no no, I love to play. Yeah.
I will absolutely come on and play. Okay, well, good
to see you. We'll end it here. UM so happy
that that you're making it. I knew you win and
(36:53):
when I'm down and out, you can remember me. Yes,
of course I'm down and out. You just throw me
a bone. Okay, Okay, I got you. Hey, guys, welcome
(37:16):
back to d D. This show on Time with Bobby Bones.
Have to look. It's to the point I always dreamed
of being confused by all the shows that I do,
But it's to the point I had to look at
the sign to figure out is this the Bobby Cast?
Is this breaking Boby Bones? Is this the boy Bone Show?
I'm digging. I'm over exposed. Friends, Uh my next guest.
I would tell you I brought her in because I
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just really honestly thought she was so freaking good when
she played. I knew she was good by hearing her
music online, but then she played on my show and
I was like, man, like, I gotta have her places um,
and she's she's here, and I am super pumped for
you guys to see HER's your first time to see her.
She just released herself titled EP earlier this year and
has been named basically an artist to watch everybody if
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they if they write things about music, She's on it.
She's been featured as a spotlight artist on the Country
Top thirty Countdown, which I hosted, produced on like two Cities,
The Women of by Her Country, I produced that show,
put her on there every chance I get. She's a
talented singer songwriter that is really destined to be a star.
And if she's not that means country music screwed up.
That's all. That's all it means. If she's not a
star means country get screwed up. And she goes about
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one name and one name only here she is Tierra
Heart laughing out there. But I have great to see
you by the way again, Great to see you, Great
to see you. But everything I just said I said
to your face last time I saw you, know you did?
I guess It's just like I don't know, but I
don't and I don't remember anything, right, I have a
terrible memory. I only remember saying it as I was
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saying it again because it felt familiar. But like I
truly feel that way that if you're not a star,
this place is broken. Thanks. I appreciate that. It makes
me feel great. Okay, sent you said it yourself that
you forget things. I just have to say, do you
know that last time was actually not my first time
playing on your show. I've actually been on your show. Oh,
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let's play this game. I didn't know that. Okay, you have,
don't hold on, don't tell me, do't tell me. Let's
play the game. First of all, I'm sorry. I like
to say that. Okay, it wasn't that memorable. It's fine,
But did you come as You didn't come as just
Tierra though I did. Okay, there's something to this. Yeah,
I'm trying to tell you. You did a contest for
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girl Crush for like the best cover, and I sent
in one of my covers, but you weren't in the studio.
But technically, aunt, let's go, let's go to the judge.
Let's go. It does account, But that also shows you
even before I knew you were like trying to make
it that, I thought you were good because I got
like ten thousand submissions for that thing. So you don't
even remember the bit. I will be honest with you.
(39:45):
I do so many bits. But I was looking for
the best cover of girl Crush. And how did you
submit the video through YouTube? Posted a video on YouTube
but it's still there, and then I played it on
the air. Was there a winner? Did they win a
million dollar or something. I think they got to come
on the show. Do you know who one? Yeah, we
don't need it main here now well that's crazy, I know, yeah,
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well now here. It was like on my bucket list
to be on your show for a long time. So
here we are, and and we weren't able to work
this out. But and we can keep every reason private
if we need to. But I invited you to come
and play at our festival, Bobby Fest, and was like,
I will pay you money, come and play, come on
stage with us. And you weren't able to do it
for whatever, you know, I'll say it's for my honeymoon.
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That's that's your business though, because I didn't want to
jump on and stage. But I was like, actually it's
my bachelorette party. Yeah, but if it was anything other
than that, I would be there. I was like, we're
doing this show, and you know, we're only doing like
two festival. We're doing two festivals. It's like my festival,
Raging Idiots, my group we're headlining, and Russell Dickerson and
(40:50):
Maddie and Tape. But that's my spot to highlight people
that I think we're just fantastic. And I was like,
we got a call tier. Yeah, I was so excited
when they told me, I hope you do it again,
and so I can play well, have you as God
and these cameras is my witness, So you wantuld do something? Okay,
because you're you're just so good. Let's ask some questions
about you though, And so do you feel like you're
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getting traction? Like good traction and people are listening and
you're like, wow, I'm actually making a difference here. Yeah,
I mean it was kind of weird because I released
my music like during COVID and everything, and so, um,
you know, I kind of just had to see the
response from like online as opposed to like being at
shows and stuff. But um, I mean it's been really cool,
(41:34):
Like people are actually listening to my songs, which feels great,
and um, streaming is doing really well, um, which feels good.
So yeah, I'm feeling great. I have a lot to
talk to you about. I think since you're since you
are new to a lot of the people watching. Now,
let's play a song you're cool with that, do it?
And So her instagram is Tierra Music, which is t
(41:58):
I e r A Music Tierra Music, So if you
want to follow her, I'm just kind of vamping as
you are. You ready? Perfect? All right? What is this
song I'm gonna do? Mouse? Um? It's a song that
I did with my friend Breland Um and he did
like a really cool like rap situation. Um, I can't
do it as well as him, So I'm just gonna
do like the demo version because I can't do it
(42:19):
like Brelan does. All Right, here we go. You lack
a slowly Sunday. You're good for my soul. You take
(42:41):
himy places I never thought I could go in my
dash photolige. Yeah, my love on cruise control. Take me
any direction and it's still feel I come. You're putting
my mys on my heart. You keep putting my my
(43:13):
my on my and I'm loathing and baby Lalla la
la lalla lalla lalla lolla lalla balla la lalla la
(43:34):
la la heella lalla la la bas on And that's awesome.
I love it, love it, love it, love it. I'm
just such a fan tonight for a good night, like
I like dust to lunch. Big fan of you too.
I have a song stuck in my head. When I
came in here, I was like, I hope I remember
(43:55):
the words of my own lyrics. Wait, what what did
you say? You have a song sung by him? No? Sorry,
I have the same accent, though I should not be
able to his songs stuck in my I'm like, I'm
from Arkansas, you're from Alabama. Yes, pretty similar, except you
(44:16):
beat this in football. Other than that, world good. Hey,
I do want to play a celebrity game with you
that which would be fun for a second, because I
feel like now like you're starting to grow into where
people are gonna recognize you out and like you gotta
get ready for that and it's like but wonderful at
the same time. So what I'm gonna do is and
Mike'll have the pictures up on the screen, right, Okay,
(44:38):
so they'll they'll get easy when we start. But I'm
gonna show you a celebrity. There's nothing written on him,
there's no context. Just can you name the celebrity? Okay, No,
it's gonna be easy, Okay, Okay, go ahead. That's the rock.
That is the rock. This is not a trick. I'm
bad at games, Okay, who's bad at games? All games? Yeah,
I'm pretty bad. Okay. Named the next one, Courtney Dashian
(45:01):
That is correct? Did you know? Fun fact? I was
watching because I watch housewives and my fiance some of them.
We don't watch all the cities, but we watched Beverly Hills,
we watched New York. We watch I don't know some
other cities too. But we were talking about some Beverly
Hills stuff. And she didn't know Travis Barker except for
(45:23):
being Courtney Kardashian's boyfriend. Do you know Travis Barker from music?
You don't either, do you what if you had to
guess what band? Do you know who? But do you
know who he is now? Right? Who he's with her,
all the tattoos? Yes, if you tell me the band,
then I'll like put it together. But if you had
to not, no, I can't guess it is a rock band. Yeah,
(45:47):
And I was blown away. It was Blink one right,
and he's the drummer. And she was like, I don't
know any of those songs? Yeah, And I said, so
I sang on one and I said all the small things.
She was like, I don't know that one and I
was like never do you know? It took home. It
was a Friday night, we walk alone. We got the
(46:08):
Feeling ride started making now nothing is that like on
commercials and stuff. That's their biggest song. That's my age. Man.
Sometimes like like I stay, I stay in shape, like
I tried, I'm on, I'm on TikTok as much as anybody,
but sometimes you just feel older. It just hits when
people know it's true, it's true. All right? Can you
(46:30):
name this celebrity? Shoot, I don't know her name, but
I know she's from a stranger things. Is Millie Millie
Bobby bro that's it? Yes, okay, very good, Millie Bobby Brown. Okay,
can you name this one? M hmm, No, but she
has three names too. No, I don't know her name,
(46:51):
don't know. She's from some like Disney movie that I watched, ish, Yeah,
Freaky Friday. The yogurt commerce shore where you poop if
you're old or something. I'm not sure where the yoga
she sells. That's Jamie Lee Curtis. Okay, you know what
the yogurt is like, it makes you regular activia? Yeah? Nice?
All right? You name this guy? Um? Uh no, no, no,
(47:20):
I don't know. I don't know his name, but I
know he's uh the dude, the water dude. That what
we'll accept water dude. Water dude is Jason Momoa. Oh um,
why am I blanking? Uh? Not Lougan Paul? But but
(47:42):
shoot far it's not Logan. You're like my grandma, but
way younger and cooler. Well we'll shoot fire dang. What's
his name? Brother? Right? Last one? If you get this,
you win. You get to play another song. But if
you don't. If you don't, you have to play another song. Okay,
(48:03):
m hmm, Yeah, I can't help you. I don't know.
I've never even seen him before. I've definitely have I
seen him. Is he like a child actor? He was
Jonathan Taylor Thomas from Home Improvement? Would have never yet
sed up? Okay, but you know this one though? I know,
I know that she's Is she like a TikTok? That's
(48:23):
good enough, Charlie Damelio. Okay, all right, there you go.
Well you didn't get it, so now you have to
play another song by punishment? Can because I know so
much of the music that you do? Um? Can I
request a song that's terrifying? Would you do? Found it
(48:43):
in you? Sure? Yeah? I can do that. Why was
that terrifying? Because I can request any song in the
whole world? Yeah, you could, but I don't know that.
I don't know that. It was just scary. I guess
sur mell and song, so I should not be terrified.
So you're terrified of your own songs and games. You know,
she's got a lot of fear. It is a lot
of weird fears, rified of the unexed affected. Okay, well
that's this whole career, I know. Yeah, you started clowns
(49:05):
by any chance. Yeah, Terri ab out of everything. I'm
all right here. It is. This is founded in you, Frontier.
You're the phone call picking up in the middle of
(49:27):
the n eye. You're the patients. I don't have one
thing same. You're the you can do it baby email
and I don't want to try. But Mama always said,
really good, a little just hard to find. But I
(49:47):
found it in you, every little thing I was missing,
baby meal didn't kind of crazy. You got to the
hot on meable, the best part of me in any you,
confidence and one. I can be happy just cause it
temp me. The you got me all ben I was
(50:08):
looking for. I ain't got a little no more. I
found in you, you Vanity, Vanity found it in you. Yeah, yeah,
(50:32):
found it any you Every little thing I was missing, Babe,
love me ant even kind of crazy. You got to
the heart of me, every part of the vanity, you
the confelence and on. And I can be happy just
cause it temp me the you got me all ben
(50:54):
I was looking for. I ain't got a little no more.
I count in ay you Yeah, in so good Tierra Music.
On Instagram, people are asking how do they see you out?
(51:17):
Like if to play music? Um, I'm playing Watershed Festival,
um August first, so that would be fun. Which is Watershed?
I've played Watershed? Is that the in Seattle? Is that
up George, Washington? Okay, the Gorge. It's in the Gorge.
It's the greatest. Yeah. And that's up in northwest or
in northwest north Arkansas, in the northwest part of the country.
(51:38):
It is the coolest place. Even been up there. I've
only been to two states of my entire life. So okay,
let's let's go. Let's seven a second. You've been to Alabama, Tennessee. Um,
okay three Alabama, Tennessee, Maryland, and Florida. So forth. That's it. Well,
that's not a lot, but that just multiplied pretty quick.
You went from to I'm sorry, but I feel like,
(51:59):
compared to everyone else the world, four is not a lot.
You're playing Watershed. That's amazing. Yeah, I'm excited. We're on
the air in Seattle. I'm gonna make sure to tell
all of them to go when they go up there,
to make sure to spend some time. Yeah. That's then
we got to get you into more states. I know, well,
I just want to like play everywhere and travel everywhere.
Any any other shows that you have booked yet? Are
(52:20):
we waiting to see as things aren't open up? No, yeah, yeah,
we're just waiting. All I know is you didn't play
Bobby Fest. I'm sorry. We could have put you in
more states. I'm sorry. Sorry. I'm getting married, Bobby, So yeah,
what's happening with that? We get married in October, so
it's right around the corner um and we're done with planning.
(52:40):
So now we're just waiting. And so do you have
the honeymoon? Where are you going? We run to the Maldives.
It's like, Dustin, I even know where that is you're
talking about. In the States. You're saying places I can't
even find on a map. I know. Well, it's like
my first time like going out of the country. So
I'm excited. That's cool. Yeah, I didn't get leave the
countryuntil I was in my twenty or something. We never
want to vacation, were so as a kid, we didn't
(53:00):
want vacations and so but when I started travel around,
I thought it was so cool and I'd be like
in an airport, like honestly got to be like in
an airport in Idaho, and I would go, this is
the coolest thing. I never thought being from Mountain Pine, Arkansas,
I would get to be in Idaho. Well, it's pretty cool,
like seeing different countries and seeing how other people live
their life, because I feel like you're in a bubble.
Wherever you live, You're in this kind of bubble, and
(53:21):
it's really cool to see just you know, this whole
big world out there. I am super excited for you
to be getting married. I'm excited that you're just gonna
be like in this orbit for a long time, because
not only do you deserve to be, Like I said,
the system is broken. If in the next coupled a
few years you're not a star, this is it's broken.
And I would say I quit, but i'd lie because
(53:42):
I'm not quitting. But I still I'm rooting for you hard.
Thank you. You have an ep that's out now and
so people can listen to that. Are you writing new
music for are you record? Like what's happening with that process? Yeah?
More music is coming um. And just got off of
a ridership treat and we wrote some pretty dank songs. UM.
So there's gonna be some sort of extension to the
(54:04):
EP UM at some point. Would you guys follow her
Tira Music at Tira Music. She is just one of
my favorites and I haven't tried to pay her to
play music and my festival. I was like, I will
pay you literally Monday too, and she said I'd really
get married and then, you know what, good for her,
That's what I say, Good for her. You're a real treat.
(54:24):
Thank you for comming the Friday Morning Conversation with Tierra. So,
Tierra is being featured on our National Countdown this week.
I Tierra gonna see you, and I tell you, I
was just going through some YouTube videos and I saw
you sing and ring a fire. One of my friends
send it over. Yeah, and I don't hear a lot
(54:45):
of a lot of women do ring a fire, honestly. Yeah.
I mean, I so I used to play at Chick
fil A back home, and we would do like a
writer's round. Yes, where his home? I need to know
where this chick fil A is where there's a writer's round.
I'm from Birmingham but actually from like a suburb of
Birmingham's called Gardenville, um. And so I would play with
(55:09):
these like bluegrass guys and they just like taught me
a bunch of country music and Ring of Fire was
one of the first ones. So yeah, we'd we'd sing
Ring of Fire. Would people come to chick fil A
to watch the writer's round? They did. That's the greatest
thing I've ever heard. I love both of those things.
I know we also got free chick fil A out
of it, so that's always great. Dang, Okay, well, I
(55:31):
do want to get to know you a little bit.
But let's hear Ring of Fire as if we were
have a number two. Please you got it right? Here
is Tierra by the way, follow her or you can
see what she looks like right now at Tierra Music.
All right, Tiera, when you're ready, the visit burning thing
(55:55):
and it makes a favery BWn by desire. I feel
into ring a Fire. I feel into a burning a
(56:16):
ring of fire. I went down, down, down in the flames,
went higher, an it burns, burns, burns than a ring
of fire, that a ring of fire. I feel into
(56:36):
burning a ring of fire. I went down, down, down
in flames and win higher and it burns, burns, burns
than a ring of fire that a ring of fire.
Come on, I've heard that song ten thousand ways from
(56:58):
you know, being here in Nashville or being on American Idol.
Everybody that comes on American I don't wants to do
that song, and I'm like, everybody's done it. However, you
do that so good? It just slightly different that it works. Yeah,
it's just like a tablet slower. You know. That's cool.
Tiara is here and that's how I found you. Honestly,
was going through some music and I was like, actually
(57:21):
kills that song, and then I started checking out your
EP You have an EPizza out by the way. Cameron's here,
who wrote a lot of these songs with you? Right, yes,
Cameron Badell. So he uh, we wrote a lot of
the songs and he also produced the whole thing. So Cameron,
what do you not do? Cameron walked in and was
like from which tall and I have a just a
huge love for which talk Kansas And then he looks
at Morgan and goes, we went to high school together
(57:42):
and dank. So when did you Tiara? When did you
move from Alabama up to Nashville? Um? I moved here
three years ago. Um, and I did the whole thing, like,
you know, traveling back and forth. Um, you know, from
a hometown to Nashville, and um, after a year in college,
I finally convinced my parents to move up here with me,
(58:03):
so that they moved up here too. Yeah, and they're
still here, loving it. So with what you've been able
to do so far, I know you played at the Bluebird,
Which isn't that the craziest also coolest thing. Yeah. Yeah,
it was like one of my first performances here in Nashville,
which was wild. Um, but it's also like super nerve
wracking because it's like one of the few places where
before like actually listening. Um. But yeah, I love it.
(58:27):
It was super fun. And they're sitting like I don't
know if you've played the round or you played the stage,
but they're sitting like right on your elbow. They're eating
too sometimes it's the right on you. Yeah, I've done
the one on on the stage and also in the round,
and yeah, it's it's crazy, but I mean that's what
That's why I fell in love with with Nashville and
country music is like, you know, I feel like you
(58:48):
don't really get those kinds of writers rounds everywhere. So
it's a cool experience. I saw a picture of you
in Shania Twain. How did that come together? How did
you meet her? Yeah? So I was on this show
called Real Country, Um, and it was a music competition show,
um here in Nashville, and um it was Shania Twain,
Travis Tritt, um J, and Jake Owen. Yeah, and Shania
(59:11):
was my like I was on her team. Um and
I mean that was it was so random. She just
like invited me to be on the show, and um,
I got to like be mentored by her, and um,
she's been. She's been so great even after the show,
like you know, commenting on on Instagram posts and stuff
and just being supportive of my music. So how did
(59:32):
you not win the or did you win the show?
I don't know who won the show. So I won
my episode, but I didn't win the whole thing. Who
in the world beat you? Like, seriously, you know who
won the show? I don't want on the show? Um,
Jada Dryer. She's awesome. I know Jada dry Okay, yeah,
she is actually awesome. I want to say she's awesome,
or I'd say both equally awesome and they had to
(59:55):
make a very tough decision. That's what I would say. Okay,
all right, Tierra is here, let's do UM. If you
don't mind, I want to do one of your songs.
I want will you play not your Girl place a
little bit of that? Tell me about this song first, Yeah, so, UM,
I kind of wrote it from don't laugh. I gotta
wrote it from like a relationship perspective, UM. But really
(01:00:19):
the song is about UM. When I first moved to Nashville,
it was really important for me to like figure out
who I was as an artist before anybody else could
tell me UM, because I feel like it's super easy
to just like be swayed in one direction and have
people tell you what your music should sound like, what
your brand should be. UM. And so it was important
(01:00:40):
for me to like figure that out before somebody else
told me too. So that's kind of like the whole
premise of the song. It's like, I'm not a girl,
can't can't control me. It's interesting because you know, when
I just see the title, I heard the song, I
would think it was a relationship song, and then you
describe it as you know you, your perspective and a career.
It reminds me of um, I'm not going to write
(01:01:01):
you a love song by Sarah Barellis. But you hear
that and you go, she's talking to some dude, I'm
not gonna write you a love But then you find
out she don't wrote that song because she's telling her label,
I'm not writing you a love song. Yeah you are.
You're fueling Cameron right now because he literally said that
in the right I so did not. I so did
not want to write this song because I was like,
I don't want people to think that I'm just like craping,
(01:01:22):
crapping on them. But I mean it was just my
truth and he just um encouraged me to write her
because she's the type of girl that is This song
is couldn't be more true. She sticks to her guns
and she's like, this is who I am, this is
what I do, And it's a breath fresh air to
produce something like that. You know. Okay, well, let's hear
let's hear some of not your Girl from Tiara. Let's
get hoo hoo hoo hoo oo all the room that's
(01:01:56):
about you hesitate, so before diving, let's get a few
things straight. If you want that picture perfect version of
the same old thing, then I'll thank you for the drinking.
I'll be on my way. I'm not sugar for you
(01:02:17):
must have me mistaken for someone. Hey, gonna switch it
up for you. Lucky for you, this plenty and go
would do whatever just to fit the molda cave view
what I'm not so if you're looking for that typical
(01:02:37):
uh ha ha, I'm not too girl. No oh god,
it's great. Thank you. There is no reason that you
shouldn't be a massive star in this town in this format.
(01:02:58):
I don't ever throw that around, but there's just your
so good. You're just so good. Thank you appreciate it.
There is no reason that in a year you're not
in here with the number one song ready to hit
two and three. There's just if that doesn't happen. This
town has let me down. Well listen, I feel like
you're known for manifesting people's career. So I will take that,
(01:03:18):
and I don't say that. Sometimes people come in and
I'm like, all right, you get to work and we'll see.
But you're you're so good and you're so good talking
on a microphone. Some are to struggle when they're new,
Like you come and you own it. It's fantastic. Thank you. Um,
just you guys. Check out her music. She has a
self titled EP. It's I'm assuming it's called Tierra. Yeah,
(01:03:39):
why one name? Why? What's what's the deal here? Um?
Because there's not another Tierra? So like why not? Also
my last name is like a little it's a little
difficult anyways. I don't love my last name, so just
the one name. She's there, you go, I get you,
(01:04:01):
I get you. Well, Um, you're you just got engaged
last year though, right yeah, yeah, almost like exactly year ago. Um,
and we're gonna married this fall. Oh so you're planning
it to happen right when you can't because we are too.
We're doing ours in August, and so it's kind of
we're kind of put into that spot where we feel
like we can have it and have all the people there. Yeah,
(01:04:21):
I mean I feel like bog October. Hopefully we can
have all the people there because truthfully, like he has
most of the guest list because he has such a
big family. Um and so yeah, I'm hoping we can
have all the people and um they love to party,
so it'll be a good time. How did he propose? Um?
So he is a filmmaker, Um, so he's he was like,
(01:04:44):
let's go out to Huntsville, Alabama, um, and like just
take some pictures. Like we do that all the time.
We have like content days and just like have fun
take pictures. Um. So we went out there and we
went to this bridge and he set his camera down
and he was like, we're gonna do this really cool
like Sloma video. We're gonna like turn around and face
our backs to each other and then we're gonna turn
(01:05:05):
on super fast and like be facing each other whatever.
And so when I turned around, he was on one
knee and then her family came up like screaming, like
it was like twenty of them. Um. So it was
it was a moment. That's really cool. Congratulations, thank you.
Before I let you guys go into and ask this beforehand,
do you guys want to play a little bit of
shut it down. You have to retune. Can you do
(01:05:26):
a little bit of that? Or no? Do it here?
She has one final time. This is tiera A usually
don't say out this ly this side of mino. Don't
(01:05:49):
know my name but these days, but it's show sounds
good and fuel close tonight it's DIFFI and called sit
by sit. You made me want to shut it down?
Stay out to the morning. Likely loose track cuts my
doom breaking all the week queues. If you spin me
(01:06:13):
around out on the fun kiss me, can't tell me
if your by me one more going, I swear you're
gonna be surround. Maybe want to shut it down? Who
wh who who? Oh yeah, you made me want to
(01:06:35):
dance all now a boy, I'm talking toil. They put
the chain on the knee, all out going? You holding me,
I don't fall leave like, hey, what can I say?
I know it's getting kind of la, but you maybe
want to shut it down? Stay out to the morning
(01:06:56):
like leave loose track cudsime, No, we can all awake us.
If you spin me around, I'm on the floor. Kiss me,
can't tell me mules by me one more boy? I
sweat you gonna misson well, maybe want to shut it down?
Who who who whoo. I just can't help myself when
(01:07:26):
I'm with you this norm else boy, you don't damn
good will I keep it up? We're gonna shut it down.
I just can't help myself when I'm with you, this
nore else boy, you don't damn good will I keep
it up? We're gonna shut it down. Nice sh Thank
(01:07:47):
you you guys, followed Tierra anyone you want to say?
Nothing's just so good. I'm just impressed and thank you
at Tierra Music on Instagram. Are you taking you want
to take? Talk doing the thing over there too? Yet?
I'm there? Am I doing the thing? That's the question? No,
I'm not all right. You'll get there, trust me, Alright's
this thing hold on now? I don't want to say
it's something that came to my hand. Do the thing
(01:08:08):
with your voice where you go like really high, like
I wasn't expecting to go back. Maybe that was also
even in the first song. But this sounds so pretty together.
Are you always going to be with her? Yeah? I
mean he we like I feel like this. This this
ep is kind of like, um a reintroduction for me
(01:08:29):
and UM he's super like into R and B country
and I am to U, so it just smash as
well together. And me, how long I've been here? And
I told you been ten years, almost eleven, and I've
been kind of looking to find my way in this
town as an R and B country guy. That's kind
of the two genres that I grew up listening to
and I want to do. But it's like it was
hard to find a place to fit in and like
(01:08:50):
make it work. And then I was like, she's a
golden ticket because she's yeah, thank you guys, thank you
for coming again, big fan, good luck, crush it. I'll
see you again soon when you're like, oh, what's your
name Billy again? Yeah, I see it now. I'm gonna
be that big of a star alright type hands here,
everybody than h
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Bobby Bones
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