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Hey Queen, welcome to another episode of the Q Chat.
Today, we're thrilled to be joined with the incredibly
talented trio Chapel Heart Band.Hailing from Mississippi, this
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country music band has been shaking up the industry with a
unique blend of country, soul, and rock.
With powerful vocals, authentic lyrics, and a boat approach to
storytelling, Chapel Heart is redefining what it means to be a
country band in the modern era. Join us as we explore their rise
of fame, the inspiration behind their hit song, and the strong
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bond that keeps this family act going strong.
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So thank you guys for joining another episode.
The key chat today, my very special guests are the beautiful
Chapel Heart Band, and we're going to talk about their
beginnings. They're from, I have a lot of
Southern roots too, so they're from Mississippi.
They also have some roots in NewOrleans and you guys can be
familiar with them from America's Got Talent.
So we're going to talk about that country roots and what can
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we expect next. How are you ladies doing today?
Hello, how are you? Doing.
Awesome. I'm so happy to talk with you
guys. So as of course as I was doing
research on you guys, I know that you all have Mississippi
roots and Poplarville. So I have family from Woodville,
Mississippi, if anybody's ever heard of that place.
But I definitely want to hear about your beginnings.
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And I know that also has some ties to the name Chapel Hearts.
I just want to get some information on your beginnings
first. Well, we are a family band, as
you mentioned, and we're originally from Pacoville,
Mississippi. And I always say, I feel like
the band started before we realized because we're cousins.
They're sisters. I'm their favorite cousin and we
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come from a first. She's our first cousin.
Well, we come from a huge familyin Pacoville.
Our grandma had 17 kids and there's 108 of us.
So that kind of like just lets you know how many hearts are
running around. But you know, we grew up in
church singing, but in a small town of Mississippi, singing was
never really sought like seen asan actual career.
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So it wasn't until we moved to New Orleans that we actually
kind of got things rolling. And we literally have hit every
step on the musical journey. Starting out singing on Royal
St. Did the whole Frenchman St.
Bourbon Street and then we kind of just grew from there.
Yeah. Wow.
So I want to ask you too, what the country roots that you guys
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always just have a thing for country music?
Like, how did it shift from hey,we can sing, we can blow to
wanting to be in a country musicgenre?
I think growing up, we listened to a little bit of everything,
all genres, all music, but I think country music was the one
genre that we felt like we couldrelate with the most.
The stories that you hear in country songs are the are the
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songs that we of our lives. And so I think we just kind of
naturally gravitated to country and it was just kind of what
what kind of came out too. Yeah, I think also for me, I
think exactly kind of what Dave was saying.
Like everything was country music.
If I remember being at school atnap time, they would put on
kicker one away and like so you had country music going to
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sleep. If they if we had a fun day,
they would put on country music and we'd run around and you
know, we'd get to have the free day and.
Or. If you were on the bus, if you
were behaved on the bus, the busdriver would turn on music.
It was kicker one away. So it was like all things.
It was always country music, music.
And I always say I said my when I was little, you probably can't
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believe it, but I used to talk alot and my Mama would be like
Kevin, you have got to get her to sleep to like I got to go to
sleep. She doesn't talking too much.
So my dad figured out that afterdinner, if he put me in the car,
he would ride me around and we would we would listen to George
Jones and Kenny Rogers and DollyParton and and I think the thing
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that you know, it wasn't just that we were like right now
listening to country music. I was listening to this music
and I had so many questions and my dad, what does this mean?
What is this, you know, what is an auction?
We would talk about the John Michael Montgomery song sold and
he talks about how he met this girl at the Grundy County
auction and he said, you know, he was bitten on her like
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everybody else was bitten on allthe items that was there.
But he would he had his I said on what he wanted and so and it
was but I was like, you know, where Grundy County like what is
the what is an option? Like how do you do that?
Why is he thinking so fast? And so, but I just had so many
questions about this music that we were listening to.
And, and I think that it's really where I fell in love with
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the songwriting and actual like country, country music, like as
like as a song, like, you know, and, and really the writing and
the storytelling of it. And I think that's where it kind
of all begin for me. And then once Devin, eight years
younger than me. So by the time it wasn't very
long after, when we were like growing up and I started driving
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and my, my mom was just like, here, take, take them in and
take care of my little brother, take them and go.
And so, but so then it's kind oflike, you know, in my car is
where I would teach them these songs and I would teach them the
like, you know, the songs that Ilearned, I teach them harmony
part. So we would ride and sing and do
choreography and all the things.So it was a full on, you know,
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karaoke experience, but you know, it's but I think also
maybe it kind of with the passing down to the things that
my dad, the songs that my dad had taught me, passing that down
to them. That's one thing about country
music, it's the stories. You know, a lot of the songs are
literal stories and so like you're listening and it's this,
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it's like top tier, I would say songwriting, no offense, any
other genres, but something about country music, it's just
straight up storytelling. You know, like you're going to
hear a beginning, middle and theend in that song before it's
over with. So that's the one thing I think
it's cool about country music. And I like how you mentioned
people like Kenny Rogers, of course, because when I grew up,
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everybody listen to everything actually.
So it didn't matter like if it was country, pop, R&D, whatever,
like they just listen to everything.
And I think back then, I love how just seeing people of color
singing country music, because now I think people just don't
realize like we had Charlie Pride, Ray Charles sing a ton of
country music as we know that was his thing.
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So I think it's really great. So of course, as I mentioned, a
lot of people are probably familiar with you guys from
America's Got Talent. So I want to ask you guys, how
did that come about? What you guys decided to be on
the show and how was that experience?
I'm like I would. I just want to I'll start the
I'll kick it off. And we were talking with someone
the other day and they said how she she saw in another interview
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where we talked about turning nose into motivation.
And I realized not too long ago that literally turning nose into
notification is what got us to AGT.
And that was, you know, people would tell us, we have a bunch
of we have a bunch of friends like in the music industry.
And you know, a lot of them would they were like, whatever
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you do, do not go on that singing show.
Don't do the singing show. They were like, it's the
quickest way to kill your career.
So they're like, if you hey, like they're like, make your own
choice. But if you go, it will be career
suicide. And they were just like every,
every person that we talked to try to tell us to not go.
And you know what ultimately it came down to like we sat down
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and we said, listen, when we're sitting on the porch and our
rocking chairs and we're tellingour grandkids about, you know,
life on the road and, you know, this being in the music
industry, we want to just say that we did it all.
Even if we go and audition and we completely fall on our faces,
we want to say that we did it all.
And it's just a part of the journey.
But, but I always say, well, youknow, but thank God that we did
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that. We did go.
But I'm definitely probably tellyou a little bit more about the
process, but I just thought thatthat was the coolest.
That was the coolest thing. She was like, can you give me an
example of one of those times that you turn knowing the
notification? I was like going to AGT.
Yeah. So we initially were not even
planning on auditioning. It was someone, you know,
reached out and like, you guys should audition for America's
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Got Talent. We were just like, no, we're on
the road, we're doing shows. So we weren't even thinking of
doing anything like that. And the same week that auditions
were, we were scheduled to go out on the run with the Indigo
Girls, but the run ended up being cancelled.
Due to somebody had. Covic So we were like, Lord, is
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this you? Like, are you working this out?
So we were like, it's just the timing of everything.
It just felt right. And so we were like, let's just
go, let's do it. And what we thought was going to
be like a show up, an audition kind of process was absolutely
not that at all. It was like a three day process.
We had to bring the same clothes.
We were tired. We didn't even get to audition
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until like day three, very end of day three.
And by that time I think production was over and we were
over and everybody was over it. They were like, look, they don't
have any more. Golden buzzers just go out.
There give it your all try to get at least three yes.
So we went out there and literally it was so loud I
remember being so loud and we were nervous and but we got look
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once we got up there and we started talking to everybody and
then the music started It was like, OK, wait, this is just a
Chapel heart show like we got this let's just let's just have
fun with it and Lord, I don't think any of us could have ever
imagined what came out of that experience.
But like then we said, we are soglad that we we trusted.
Our good. On it and we we went and didn't
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you take? It wow, I love it.
I love how you said also just sometimes that no is your
motivation because again, I think a lot of times people
can't process rejections or things breaking out, but things
are always working in your favor.
So for that reminder because andit just also to just something
that somebody may advise you, Hey, I don't think that's a good
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idea. But what's meant for you is not
meant for them, you know, so they don't see things the way
you see it. That vision, that gift that God
gave me, they said it gave it toyou.
It's not. They're not supposed to
understand. So that's just another testimony
to see how you guys did that. And of course, guys are now.
So that's amazing. So I wanted to ask you guys
about somebody. I definitely love this Dolly
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Parton. You guys did big one doing that.
You can have them Jolene becausewe know Jolene is like one of
her signature hits bad one because I'm like, whoa, Jolene
just now we got the new version of Jolene, like she's just a bad
one, you know, But I want to askyou guys about that that song.
You can have them Jolene. What what makes you guys decide
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to do that response song? And I love the twist on it.
So I wanted to get the background.
On well, we've always been DollyParton fans and it was actually
during COVID. We were, we were, we're
quarantined out on Lake Pontchartrain and we had taken
over this whole little Marina restaurant area and we were, we
were doing a cover video of Dolly Parton's 9:00 to 5:00.
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And if you go back and watch that cover video on the 1st
scene, Deb comes in and she has a before she puts on her apron,
she has an insurance that says you can have him son Jolene and
them goes are in the kitchen andshe is like, you can have him
son Jolene. Wait a minute, who does this
have you? Think she is?
How is she going? To give me something that don't
even belong to. It's just like, you know what?
As a matter of fact, you can have him, Jolene.
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And then when she said that, it was like, I feel like all of the
lights got a little brighter. Like we were all like, wait a
minute, I could do this. And, and honestly, during that
process, because you know, as a,as an artist, like you come
across 1000 great ideas a day and you're like, OK, I have to
do something with that. I have to do something with
that. But you can have them.
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Jolene was like one of those, I guess maybe it was just so
poignant. It kind of stuck with us.
And then when we finally sat down to write it, like the same
energy that was in the room whenever we were filming that
day was the same energy that we,when we wrote it recorded and
even got down to do in the musicvideo and all.
Because, you know, sometimes things there's a little
something it gets lost in translation.
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But I feel like this song just had so much energy and life in
it. It like had no choice but to be
what it became. Yeah, and I think also too, like
you always, it kind of took me back to riding in the car with
my dad and asking those questions and, you know, knowing
the song Jolene, and it's like in 1974, I can see how it have
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been perfectly OK to be like, listen, look, I've married this
man, I didn't train this man. I need him back.
Thank you. He's mine.
And this little plane is over, Okay, He's coming home.
It was a stand by your mandate. You know, I get it.
You put in that work. You know, it's no way that from
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1974 to 2024, we still fight over the same man.
So, you know, it was, but I, I absolutely love that too,
because when we, we had an interview with CMT and we, we
played the song for them before it kind of came out to anybody.
And after we finished it was, itwas, it was a zoom call and
there was like 20 people on the zoom call and everyone was
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quiet. And Leslie Fram, we were like,
at first we were like, we have one more song if y'all didn't
like that one. And so but Leslie Fram finally
spoke and she said in 50 years of country music, no one has
ever said that. And we were like, what?
And so, you know, it really, it really was a, it was, it was, I
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think it was a bit of a confidence booster because it
just to, it felt like we were inthe right space at the right
time, you know, writing the right music.
And you know, it was just, it was, it was just one of those
moments for us, I think. Right.
I think that song is kind of like lightning in a bottle
because you're right. That is the typical country
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music songs from back in the day.
Tammy, my man, stand by your man.
You know this. You know, we gone back for him.
No, like you can't have them, but you modernize it and I think
it's just a staple too from whatcountry music is also doing now.
It's not what we always think. It's not what we think is going
to look like too. So I just think it's it's great.
And especially that is a classic, you know, from Dallas.
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I just think it's amazing. So Speaking of, you guys have
gotten some amazing blessings. I mean, I'm a fan of, well, the
former because I know she's no longer with us, but from the
coal miner's daughter herself, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, all
these Tanya Tucker, all these people that have given you guys
their blessing. I know that has to be amazing.
So I want to ask you about your Grand Ole Opry performance.
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That is huge to be performing atthe Grand Ole Opry.
So I have to hear about that experience and also what does it
feel like that you guys were able to get those blessings from
these amazing Titans, Queens in country?
I'll start on at least on the the people who came before us
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like that having all of those women kind of cosign us I think
is probably one of the biggest honors in the world because it's
like these are the women that wegrew up listening to.
And for them to kind of be like,OK girls, I see what y'all are
doing and I love it. And to, you know, publicly say
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that they love what we're doing and they're showing their
support I think is one of the the coolest things in the world.
I'm like, honestly, we don't care about the the label.
No owners, OK, that's fine. But God knows who we are.
And he fucking knows who we are.A rather challenge to us to do
the same thing with one of her songs.
We can eat like a step even further.
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Yeah, to show like their confidence and power, ability as
you know as performers and songwriter.
I feel like we always say she could have very well just been
like y'all, that was incredible.I loved it.
I've listened to it every day. She could have just said that,
but when she was like, no, what y'all can do to one of mine, I
said go on to eat and she said the more songs in there, I know
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it. And so, you know, and, and like
you said, like we, she's, she's no longer with us, but which,
you know, was, was the, it was the heartbreaking part.
But I think the the best part ofthe the part that came out so
beautifully was the fact that even though she packed her way,
her fans weighed in and they they they just it was like
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common effort comment. It was like Loretta would have
loved this. She would have put her stamp of
approval on it. Man, this was right up.
She wished she could have done acollaboration with y'all wish
she could have sang on it. She would have loved it.
And so when we were watching those, you know, I always say
you want to either do it justiceor you want to do it better.
And I don't think we could have done it better than her, her
song fist city. But you know, it feels like we
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did it justice and you know, I just like I said like just even
even Tanya Tucker on our in the finale of AGT, she send us a
message and I always tell peopleour lifelong was terrible.
We based the process of so many things.
We were so emotional and so we literally just cropped through
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our entire song. But right before that Tanya
Tucker sent us a message and shewas like, I see what you girls
are doing. I want, you know, keep hanging
in there. Y'all got some good stuff.
Y'all got some good songs. And then for her to invite us
out to, to join her to open for her in Canada, you know, it
just, it just says a lot, you know, because we, we even now
we're like, can we open for you?We're trying to like, you know,
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ask some of our friends in country music.
Can we open for y'all? Can we come?
Can we say go sick? But you know, and sometimes I
think like when you're when you're when, when you feel like
you're in the same, the the samebox or same, you know,
competition level has another part is sometimes it's hard to
be like, no, no, no, come over. You can come over for me.
And so, but it's it was, but it was the older women who are who
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were like, come on, come on, look, come, come get you, come
get you a little stage time. And so for that, we'll forever
be thankful. And like you said, always tell
people if you want to get me talking, you talk about the
Grand Ole Aubrey. They have truly become our
family. And I always say like, that's
the pinnacle of country music. Like, you know, we're all really
just working to be hope to pray,to be opera members one day and.
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We like to call ourselves members in training.
We're. Yeah, we're opera members in
training. We're just trying to do
everything we're trying to hang out with off remembers, try to
do try to watch what they're doing, try to watch people like
Vince Gill. And it's like, you know, I
always say we'll we'll never I think no one will ever be as
kind as Vince Gill or not as nice as Vince Gill, but we're
all striving to be. So we're in training and but
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there's so much wisdom there andthere is so much you know, they
there isn't one person who hasn't said, if there's anything
that I can do to help you, let me know.
And not meant it and you know and.
I think it's one thing that likewe love so much about like being
a being blessed enough to even go back as much as we do to the
Opry. But I always say the thing I can
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probably closely closest equatedto is like going to your
grandma's house after church on Sunday and you know, you got
family from all over just hanging out because whenever
you're backstage, it doesn't matter.
I mean these these are. Country legends, icons.
And they're sitting in the roomswith their doors open.
You walk past it. Hey, girls, come in here.
Let me talk to you for a little bit.
You're like me, but I feel like the Opry kind of like, it sounds
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a little cliche, but literally everyone there, it's like you're
part of the family. Wow, that's awesome.
And that's great to hear. And I definitely feel like you
guys have that spunk like Loretta Lynn had, because it's
like you said, like she was, shewas about that business like.
Yeah, it was hard. I said it was.
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I always say it was hard. It wasn't too hard rewriting
Jolie and kind of flipping the the the the state of Jolene.
I said Dolly was just kind of sweet and kind of like you're so
beautiful. I can see why he loved you.
You got this beautiful hair and these beautiful eyes.
Loretta, honey, if I catch you talking to my man again, I'm
going to grab you by the hair ofthe head and I'm going to show
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you and I'll fist see now. So just had that always say
there's there's there's women like Dolly and there's women
like Loretta. We're probably more like women
like Loretta. Right, so Loretta was like,
look, you ain't woman enough to take like she was a little.
Fan. I love that.
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So I want to ask you guys, of course, like I said, and I'm
sure you guys are probably sick of this question, but I do have
to ask. So you know, Call call by Carter
had a lot of talk and rumbles about that.
And the thing about Cobbard Carter, I think it awaken people
that forget that we are a part of country music.
So what was your thoughts on it?Because like I said, I think a
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lot of people just, I don't knowwhy they associate that weird
people of color aren't a part ofthe country music genre when we
really are. So I think it, you know, brought
a lot of conversation, obviously, you know, So do you
think it was, did it help or hurt?
Because I think some people kindof forgot that we were already a
part of country music. It was the thing that kind of
boggled my mind. So like, what was your thoughts
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on that whole Cobra Carter talk and everything?
Well, I'll kind of kick it off because I do feel like, you
know, there are definitely positives and negatives that
came from it. But one of one of the positive
things that I have to say, it definitely, like you said,
shined the light on the country's genre as a whole.
And in in two different ways. It shined the light on black
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artists that are already existing in the country music
space and also people as consumers and as listeners,
people who might not have generally listened to country
music that might not have been their go to, they're starting to
tune in so. OK, well let me see what else.
Is going on in the genre. So like as far as like just
overall awareness, I have to saythat it has done a lot.
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And I do the thing that I love about it is, is that the thing I
said I there were so many like debates of is it country?
Is it this, did she come in and disrupt the country music?
Or did she come in and pull up all of, you know, all the black
women in country music? Like, like she said, I think
that there was a there was some,there's some, there are pros and
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cons, But the thing that I I oneperson for mostly, I love that
she she jumped out to to do a country record.
I always say I love that music, music we give, we have people
give music a color, a denomination of this and that
music just is. And it's like, you know, you can
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blindfold somebody. You can blindfold somebody and
you know, and doesn't matter what color they are, if there's
a hip hop artist, if they start rapping and when they start
rapping about their experiences and the things that are
authentic to them, the Pete, thecommunity, the hip hop community
goes, I don't know who that is, but let's put him on like this
fight. And it's I think it's the same
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in country music. When you start singing and you
start riding and you start talking about, you know, growing
up and running barefoot down thestreet and you know, as trio.
Is this her first standard? She knew how to drive as a
tractor or she learned how to drive as a tractor.
And when you start telling thosestories and people go, Dang,
that's exactly how it happened to me.
Like that's exactly then when you're doing the thing that is
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authentic to you and you're connecting and resonating with
the people in that community, inthat genre, in that, in that, in
that space. I think that, you know, there's
a magic in that like as is. So I think that it it matters
not. And also crossing over is just.
Hard. I think, you know, they gave, I
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think Darius Rucker had to take some slack when he first got in.
It was like Booty and the Blowfish.
He ain't Gumtree. But it's it's having the staying
power to stay. And you keep making records and
you keep showing up and those same people turn around and be
like, man, I love Darius Rucker.He's got my favorite.
He's got my favorite album a little while.
So, you know, I just think that I, I, I think that that what
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she, I think that Beyoncé, you know, making Cowboy Carter was,
was it really was a blessing in in many ways, though, because it
had people saying look. There are.
These. African American women and men
in country music that, you know,we weren't even looking for
like, you know, and so, and thennow we, like I've said, the
advancement, we now have people who show up to our gig who they
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go like they, they'll wait in the meet and greet line and they
go, look, we don't like country music, but we, we wanted to show
up. We wanted to buy the ticket.
We wanted you to know that we support you.
And, you know, if we could just have our faces in the place that
we just wanted to do what we could.
And that just blessed my heart. I was like, oh, thank you.
And so, you know, it really, I think they're really brought an
awareness to it. And you know, I, like I said, I
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just I'm, I'm, I'm. Super grateful.
That, that she was, you know, she was ready because also, and
she said in an interview that she was, she had been, she'd
been wanting to make a country record for a really long time.
And, you know, for whatever reason, at one point the time
wasn't right and then it didn't feel right.
And she wanted to do more in themusic, want to do more research.
But I'm glad that she was able to to get her work of her work
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of art out. And as we see, you know, Beyoncé
is who she is. Queen Bee is who she is.
And you know, it shook. It shook the world, it shook the
music world, and not just country music.
I think the entire world of music was shook by it.
Most definitely. And it did bring a lot of
conversation. And I think one of the the
positive sides of it, it was like, OK, wait a minute.
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These are other artists of colorwho had been in the game for
such a long time. And especially when she included
some on the album. So it was really great, you
know, that she was able to stop the conversation.
So I want to ask you guys too, were there any challenges that
you guys have had, you know, break into this genre as a
young, young women or women of color are just starting off new
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and fresh? Were there any challenges that
you guys face and if so, how didyou guys overcome them?
I think with just like anything in life, you know, they are, we
have definitely had our fair share of challenges and
struggles and no's and ups and downs is an understatement.
But I think one thing about it being an independent artist has
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it's super difficult. You know, this industry is crazy
and just trying to break in. You know, there are millions of
artists every day trying to break into the genre or, you
know, into the industry period. So I think just being
independent and learning to still handle all of the things
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in the band, then having to do the business side and pretty
much running this entire thing and funding this entire thing on
our own has been it's very difficult.
But we just kind of we just learn to, we take a lot of what
is it called? You just kind of roll with the
punches, I think. And every time we get told no, I
think we just reset and just figure out how else we can make
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it happen. How else do we make this work?
How do we continue to keep ourselves on the road?
And it really comes back to likeour fans who buy tickets and buy
the merch and they do all the things and whatever they can
really to help us stay on the road and help from what we're
doing. Yeah.
I think also, too, a big struggle is, is breaking the
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perception of tradition, I think.
And that's what I would say. I only tell people, I don't ever
blame country music for, you know, not, not getting, not
giving us a record deal or not opening the door because as a
business, as a business model, you do what works and you put it
on paper. And from just far back, as you
can know and remember, you can put a male in a, in a tight
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white T-shirt and tight jeans and they are going to flock to
those stadiums every time. So as a business model in
country music, men, men work andit, you know, and it just, but
also, so it's, it's part of the struggle has been like working
past the mindset of tradition. And sometimes it's working three
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times as hard to show that you've got the songs, you've got
the chop, you can be out on the road that you know, there's
nothing about being a woman thatholds you back from any,
anything that the men are doing that you know, and, and even
even white women in. In country music.
Have a have a hard time. We've got so many just like
close friends. And we can probably name like 50
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of them, but there's probably three of them being played on
the radio. So we're all kind of like, you
know, facing, facing similar struggles.
But, you know, being Black womendefinitely is a it's another.
It's just one more, one more. Yeah.
And but it's just, you know, youcan have the attitude that, you
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know, I'm black. So they're not they're not
letting me in. You can just keep working hard.
You can keep showing up and you keep writing the music.
And you know, it's all about having it's all about the
stamina to be in this industry. It's it's surviving.
It is, you know, I think it was Craig Daddy on Friday that you
live to fight another day. And so you might get knocked
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down today, but you got to get up tomorrow and you but you at
least have another day that you can write again, you can sing
again, you can. And so it's just really trying
to keep it up optimistic view onyour artistry in the industry
because honey, it is a sometimeson a day-to-day basis is enough
to knock you to your knees and push you out the industry out
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of, you know, a lot of times youlook at artists like Warren Hill
and you see why she left just the music business.
And she was such a talented singer and vocalist and
lyricist. But that, like I said, the, the,
the business of music, it's enough to bring you to your
knees. So surviving and, you know,
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finding the people who help you get through it is, is really
like the biggest thing. And you know, the biggest, it's
the biggest thing that you really want to look for, I
think, when you're building thiscareer.
So Speaking of resetting, I knowyou mentioned like sometimes you
just have to reset. I want to ask you guys.
We do talk about mental health alot on our program.
So I want to ask you guys, you know, I mean, you're in a very
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complex industry. We all know the music business,
there's a lot business is longerthan the word show, so we know
it's show business. Obviously there's a lot behind
the scenes that the artists dealwith.
So how do you guys, you know, cater to your mental health with
touring business? Just you have to cater to
yourself. So what are the some of the
practices that you guys have to cater to your mental health and
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Wellness? I'll kick it off one of the
things especially because like he said, with touring and
everything, like, you know, everybody likes to say, find
your happy place to create that happy space.
But as an artist, especially an independent artist, sometimes
that can't be a physical place. So you have to learn how to, you
know, maybe it's put on your headphones, listen to a
playlist, but like get in your get into your own mental happy
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space and trying to try to create that piece wherever you
are and just don't get too caught up in the rat race.
And, and a lot of the times our fans will tell us, you know,
sometimes just slow down, but kind of like just learning to
appreciate the things that you've accomplished thus far and
don't try to like keep up with this person or the next person
and just, you know, stay fit before you.
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So one of the things I want to ask you to with our program, we
do believe in self love. Self love is the field to have
that confidence, the field to turn that no into a yes, the
field to motivate, to accomplishyour dreams and to also be a
trailblazer and to be different.So I want to ask you guys
individually, how do you guys define self love and what role
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has it played in your life? I.
Think self love is just kind of I think when you get to a place
where you can get like when you truly start to understand
yourself, because I'm not going to say completely understand
yourself because we we can, we are constantly evolving as as
people. So I think just getting to a
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place where you can understand yourself and learn to trust
yourself. I think for me that is one of
the biggest forms of self love. I guess you could.
Say. And kind of piggybacking off of
that, like getting to know yourself and understanding
yourself, but also understandingwhen and how and where to set
those boundaries to protect yourself and protect your peace.
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I think I get that we're, if we're talking mental health and
self love, I think that kind of like Tree said before, it's
finding the time to make the time to, to, to check to check
yourself. And sometimes, you know, there's
a lot going on. And like, you know, with us,
it's always it's, it's interviews, it's it's radio and
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this is that. But sometimes it's knowing when
to just say, hey, listen, look, I need a minute.
I need a minute to go and find the find the way to center
yourself, find those affirmations.
I would see all the time on TikTok where the moms would be
doing the, the, the little girlshere.
And they say, I am, I am courageous, I am beautiful, I am
strong, I am patient. I am and it's fun.
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And, and I, I used to say to her, I said, it's corny as it
may sound, as weird as it may feel, do it because when you
speak those things, they, they, they, they, you give them life.
And so on the day that you really don't feel like that
you're beautiful and you don't feel like you are kind and you
don't feel patient, you feel frustrated on on it.
As you're saying those things, they're already, they're already
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making way in the world and in the universe to to make space
for it. So you may not be you may not
feel beautiful in the moment, but if you can just say it, the
words will start to kind of attach.
They'll attach to it. And by the time it makes it back
to you, you'll start to feel that beauty, you'll start to
feel that love. You'll start to feel.
So always say be careful what you say and speak to about
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yourself and to yourself. And you know, a lot of times
ago, I can't do this. Oh man, this is I used to always
say, Lord, I'm the most unluckiest person, but unlucky
thing would happen to me and I said it's what?
And finally, I'm manager said it's what you're saying, like if
you say that that's what that's what he catches up to you.
He was like, so start saying I'mlucky, like start saying, man, I
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love when I find a $20 bill on the ground.
It's always and but you know, and I was like, that's so weird.
But I started to just kind of change what I said about myself.
And you know, and it really doesstart to turn that self love.
And then you go, look, you know,even on the days that you're
inside, kind of the days that where your emotion kind of gets
away from you, so you and you just can't grab it, There's
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something in the back of your head, though, there's something
in the back of your heart that just know like like, you know, I
just be kind. You got to learn to give
yourself grace. But if you can give yourself a
little grace to say, look, I maynot feel it today, but I'll be
back tomorrow or you know, I may, I need a couple of days,
but I'll be back to it. So I think just what you say to
it about yourself is so important and it's vital to your
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mental health and yourself love.I love it, yes, because there's
definitely power in the tongue. What we what?
We. Speak about ourselves and I
think sometimes we take that lightly, you know, because we'll
say little things, but whatever we speak of ourselves, but we're
declaring that for our lives. So that's so important with self
love is to speak highly of yourself, just like we we don't
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want to say anything bad about somebody else, but what about
you? So I definitely thank you for
that. Now before we get everything, I
want to put you guys on the spotNow we had to come up with a
playlist of some hits, some country hits.
It could be current past playlist on what we can put on
that phone or for that next drive or whatever.
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What's a good playlist for us? I'm playing almost anything
Gretchen Wilson. I mean.
She has the. The catalog gives everything
from a girls night out to being in the bed heartbroken with the
lonely. OK, so pick a Gretchen.
So I think we can probably go through maybe like four or three
fast. Rings all jacked up.
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Gretchen Wilson. Is this like?
Road trip, maybe So, yeah, let'ssay road trip.
But also too, I think that you got to have the UPS and like you
got to have some valid, some, some, you know, put your arm out
the wind and be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So. But I'm going to have to put
Garth Brooks the dance. OK, And I don't know, like this
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is my personal driving song probably every time you get to
the truck. Johnny Cash's I've been
everywhere, man. I live.
We can listen to it a lot growing up, but I feel like even
now I'm just listening to like him, name all the cities.
He's like, man, we really do be.OK.
We need like quickly, like two more.
Two more songs. OK.
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So I'm going to do have the one Carly Pierce and then I'm also
going to do here for the party pictures, OK.
Also, I guess if I've got to take, if I've got to take one,
I've got to put in nine to five by dollar lately.
Don't, don't, don't. It does get you going.
And then let's see, I guess if Ihad to take.
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Oh, and I'm going to do my second one after yours because
she came. Again, now I thought he was
going to keep talking because I'm still thinking, oh, well,
you know what, I think we'll probably add don't think I don't
think about it. Darius Rucker.
I think somebody could sing along too and just lose myself
for a little bit. And then you know what?
Number 2, not a very well known group, but this is definitely
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like now. I can't imagine getting on the
road without hearing it. But Lend Me Your Heart by Ryan
Macy and Buffalo Gospel. That is such a beautiful song.
One more. One more Vince Gills.
Anything? Well, whenever, yeah, whenever
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you come around and I'm say Vince Gill.
But our friend Wendy Moten covered Wendy.
She was a runner up on the boys,I think maybe season 20 or
something like that or 19 or 20.And she she got a chance to
honor Vince Gill with Whenever You come around and that used to
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be my favorite Vince Gill song until Wendy song it.
I said Vince, she even snatched it from me and he said Wendy
Mullins version is better. He said it's my favorite Vince
Gill song as well. So we joke about it.
But whenever you come around, it's probably got to go on the
list too. That's pretty solid.
That's a pretty solid starter kit.
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I love it. You guys did a good job and I
actually interviewed Wendy a fewweeks ago, so you guys get a
break. Isn't she the?
I love her, I love it. I just like I said, I love
talking to you musicians obviously, but Wendy, she is
she's top class. Like she's top tier.
Guy, I'm always like Wendy, whencan we just come to your house
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and sit down and sit and chat because I'm just I just want to
pick her brain and get all the wisdom and also to tell her
snatch some of those vocal cordsand I just want to put them in
my because my girl when I thank you people are always like y'all
can say your phone book make a menu, a Chinese restaurant menu
and just. I love Wendy, she's awesome, but
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before we end everything, what can we expect next?
Like where can people catch you?I know you guys have glory days.
Like what? What's coming up next for you
guys? Well, actually in two weeks
we're getting ready to head backto the UK and we're going to be
doing the Long Run Festival. We've got some shows in London
as well as Glasgow and we're going to be doing an armed
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forces tour so we can bring a little joy to our our troops
overseas. So we're going to be in Japan.
And then after that we are hitting the road on our
Christmas tour. Yeah, we're getting ready to
release. Our very first Christmas.
Album. October 25th going to be called
a Heartfelt family Christmas. So we are super, super excited
about the end of this year. We got some exciting things.
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So y'all make sure that you're following us on all social media
platforms for show tickets and merchchapelheart.com for it's a
one stop shop you can get anything.
And I think we're going to be inSwitzerland in September as
well. But I just think all of that to
say we're we'll barely be in theUS, so go check those dates And
if we were even close to I always think if it's within a
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three hour drive, I would take it.
It's all it's a fun show. It's a family friendly show.
It is, you know, it's not very many things that you can bring
the whole family out to nowadaysthat you know, but it's fun and
you'll get to hear some of your favorite Chapel heart songs.
Will we cover some of our just favorite songs in general.
And it just it's a it's a fun experience.
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So I always tell we will go check that website, see if we're
coming close to you. If we are, get your tickets
because I promise you it will bethe best dollars that you have
ever spent. Wow, I love it.
This has been an amazing conversation.
I'm so grateful to have the chance to talk to all three of
you. And like I said, I just love
this conversation. I love country music and I like
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Carrie Underwood's. Maybe next time he'll think
before he cheats, which that's kind of like a song to get you a
little upset. But you know, I love that song,
But you know, I just have to throw that in there.
But I definitely love talking toyou guys.
And I know you guys are going tojust have like such a long
career. And I just thank you all for
what you're doing. You're bringing more
conversation to country music and I just love that that what
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you're doing like the the place that you guys made for
yourselves in this industry. And I think you're a great,
great, great example just from starting from America's Got
Talent, just to show people, hey, don't listen to those no's.
Don't let these outside voices stop you from pursuing your
dreams. So thank you guys again for this
conversation. And you guys make sure you
follow the Chapel heart band on all their social media networks.
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And like they said, if they're in town near you, even if it's a
three hour drive, get behind that car and listen to those
songs on that playlist and checkthem out.
And just remember to like we talked about some things that
music, but they also are an example to like I said, follow
your dreams, pursue it. Don't let other people talk you
out of your blessing. Nothing that's meant for you,
it's meant for you. It's not meant for them.
So their opinion does not matter.
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Hey Queen, welcome to another episode of the Q Chat.
Today, we're thrilled to be joined with the incredibly
talented trio Chapel Heart Band.Hailing from Mississippi, this
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country music band has been shaking up the industry with a
unique blend of country, soul, and rock.
With powerful vocals, authentic lyrics, and a boat approach to
storytelling, Chapel Heart is redefining what it means to be a
country band in the modern era. Join us as we explore their rise
of fame, the inspiration behind their hit song, and the strong
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bond that keeps this family act going strong.
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So thank you guys for joining another episode.
The key chat today, my very special guests are the beautiful
Chapel Heart Band, and we're going to talk about their
beginnings. They're from, I have a lot of
Southern roots too, so they're from Mississippi.
They also have some roots in NewOrleans and you guys can be
familiar with them from America's Got Talent.
So we're going to talk about that country roots and what can
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we expect next. How are you ladies doing today?
Hello, how are you? Doing.
Awesome. I'm so happy to talk with you
guys. So as of course as I was doing
research on you guys, I know that you all have Mississippi
roots and Poplarville. So I have family from Woodville,
Mississippi, if anybody's ever heard of that place.
But I definitely want to hear about your beginnings.
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And I know that also has some ties to the name Chapel Hearts.
I just want to get some information on your beginnings
first. Well, we are a family band, as
you mentioned, and we're originally from Pacoville,
Mississippi. And I always say, I feel like
the band started before we realized because we're cousins.
They're sisters. I'm their favorite cousin and we
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come from a first. She's our first cousin.
Well, we come from a huge familyin Pacoville.
Our grandma had 17 kids and there's 108 of us.
So that kind of like just lets you know how many hearts are
running around. But you know, we grew up in
church singing, but in a small town of Mississippi, singing was
never really sought like seen asan actual career.
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So it wasn't until we moved to New Orleans that we actually
kind of got things rolling. And we literally have hit every
step on the musical journey. Starting out singing on Royal
St. Did the whole Frenchman St.
Bourbon Street and then we kind of just grew from there.
Yeah. Wow.
So I want to ask you too, what the country roots that you guys
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always just have a thing for country music?
Like, how did it shift from hey,we can sing, we can blow to
wanting to be in a country musicgenre?
I think growing up, we listened to a little bit of everything,
all genres, all music, but I think country music was the one
genre that we felt like we couldrelate with the most.
The stories that you hear in country songs are the are the
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songs that we of our lives. And so I think we just kind of
naturally gravitated to country and it was just kind of what
what kind of came out too. Yeah, I think also for me, I
think exactly kind of what Dave was saying.
Like everything was country music.
If I remember being at school atnap time, they would put on
kicker one away and like so you had country music going to
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sleep. If they if we had a fun day,
they would put on country music and we'd run around and you
know, we'd get to have the free day and.
Or. If you were on the bus, if you
were behaved on the bus, the busdriver would turn on music.
It was kicker one away. So it was like all things.
It was always country music, music.
And I always say I said my when I was little, you probably can't
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believe it, but I used to talk alot and my Mama would be like
Kevin, you have got to get her to sleep to like I got to go to
sleep. She doesn't talking too much.
So my dad figured out that afterdinner, if he put me in the car,
he would ride me around and we would we would listen to George
Jones and Kenny Rogers and DollyParton and and I think the thing
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that you know, it wasn't just that we were like right now
listening to country music. I was listening to this music
and I had so many questions and my dad, what does this mean?
What is this, you know, what is an auction?
We would talk about the John Michael Montgomery song sold and
he talks about how he met this girl at the Grundy County
auction and he said, you know, he was bitten on her like
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everybody else was bitten on allthe items that was there.
But he would he had his I said on what he wanted and so and it
was but I was like, you know, where Grundy County like what is
the what is an option? Like how do you do that?
Why is he thinking so fast? And so, but I just had so many
questions about this music that we were listening to.
And, and I think that it's really where I fell in love with
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the songwriting and actual like country, country music, like as
like as a song, like, you know, and, and really the writing and
the storytelling of it. And I think that's where it kind
of all begin for me. And then once Devin, eight years
younger than me. So by the time it wasn't very
long after, when we were like growing up and I started driving
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and my, my mom was just like, here, take, take them in and
take care of my little brother, take them and go.
And so, but so then it's kind oflike, you know, in my car is
where I would teach them these songs and I would teach them the
like, you know, the songs that Ilearned, I teach them harmony
part. So we would ride and sing and do
choreography and all the things.So it was a full on, you know,
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karaoke experience, but you know, it's but I think also
maybe it kind of with the passing down to the things that
my dad, the songs that my dad had taught me, passing that down
to them. That's one thing about country
music, it's the stories. You know, a lot of the songs are
literal stories and so like you're listening and it's this,
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it's like top tier, I would say songwriting, no offense, any
other genres, but something about country music, it's just
straight up storytelling. You know, like you're going to
hear a beginning, middle and theend in that song before it's
over with. So that's the one thing I think
it's cool about country music. And I like how you mentioned
people like Kenny Rogers, of course, because when I grew up,
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everybody listen to everything actually.
So it didn't matter like if it was country, pop, R&D, whatever,
like they just listen to everything.
And I think back then, I love how just seeing people of color
singing country music, because now I think people just don't
realize like we had Charlie Pride, Ray Charles sing a ton of
country music as we know that was his thing.
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So I think it's really great. So of course, as I mentioned, a
lot of people are probably familiar with you guys from
America's Got Talent. So I want to ask you guys, how
did that come about? What you guys decided to be on
the show and how was that experience?
I'm like I would. I just want to I'll start the
I'll kick it off. And we were talking with someone
the other day and they said how she she saw in another interview
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where we talked about turning nose into motivation.
And I realized not too long ago that literally turning nose into
notification is what got us to AGT.
And that was, you know, people would tell us, we have a bunch
of we have a bunch of friends like in the music industry.
And you know, a lot of them would they were like, whatever
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you do, do not go on that singing show.
Don't do the singing show. They were like, it's the
quickest way to kill your career.
So they're like, if you hey, like they're like, make your own
choice. But if you go, it will be career
suicide. And they were just like every,
every person that we talked to try to tell us to not go.
And you know what ultimately it came down to like we sat down
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and we said, listen, when we're sitting on the porch and our
rocking chairs and we're tellingour grandkids about, you know,
life on the road and, you know, this being in the music
industry, we want to just say that we did it all.
Even if we go and audition and we completely fall on our faces,
we want to say that we did it all.
And it's just a part of the journey.
But, but I always say, well, youknow, but thank God that we did
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that. We did go.
But I'm definitely probably tellyou a little bit more about the
process, but I just thought thatthat was the coolest.
That was the coolest thing. She was like, can you give me an
example of one of those times that you turn knowing the
notification? I was like going to AGT.
Yeah. So we initially were not even
planning on auditioning. It was someone, you know,
reached out and like, you guys should audition for America's
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Got Talent. We were just like, no, we're on
the road, we're doing shows. So we weren't even thinking of
doing anything like that. And the same week that auditions
were, we were scheduled to go out on the run with the Indigo
Girls, but the run ended up being cancelled.
Due to somebody had. Covic So we were like, Lord, is
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this you? Like, are you working this out?
So we were like, it's just the timing of everything.
It just felt right. And so we were like, let's just
go, let's do it. And what we thought was going to
be like a show up, an audition kind of process was absolutely
not that at all. It was like a three day process.
We had to bring the same clothes.
We were tired. We didn't even get to audition
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until like day three, very end of day three.
And by that time I think production was over and we were
over and everybody was over it. They were like, look, they don't
have any more. Golden buzzers just go out.
There give it your all try to get at least three yes.
So we went out there and literally it was so loud I
remember being so loud and we were nervous and but we got look
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once we got up there and we started talking to everybody and
then the music started It was like, OK, wait, this is just a
Chapel heart show like we got this let's just let's just have
fun with it and Lord, I don't think any of us could have ever
imagined what came out of that experience.
But like then we said, we are soglad that we we trusted.
Our good. On it and we we went and didn't
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you take? It wow, I love it.
I love how you said also just sometimes that no is your
motivation because again, I think a lot of times people
can't process rejections or things breaking out, but things
are always working in your favor.
So for that reminder because andit just also to just something
that somebody may advise you, Hey, I don't think that's a good
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idea. But what's meant for you is not
meant for them, you know, so they don't see things the way
you see it. That vision, that gift that God
gave me, they said it gave it toyou.
It's not. They're not supposed to
understand. So that's just another testimony
to see how you guys did that. And of course, guys are now.
So that's amazing. So I wanted to ask you guys
about somebody. I definitely love this Dolly
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Parton. You guys did big one doing that.
You can have them Jolene becausewe know Jolene is like one of
her signature hits bad one because I'm like, whoa, Jolene
just now we got the new version of Jolene, like she's just a bad
one, you know, But I want to askyou guys about that that song.
You can have them Jolene. What what makes you guys decide
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to do that response song? And I love the twist on it.
So I wanted to get the background.
On well, we've always been DollyParton fans and it was actually
during COVID. We were, we were, we're
quarantined out on Lake Pontchartrain and we had taken
over this whole little Marina restaurant area and we were, we
were doing a cover video of Dolly Parton's 9:00 to 5:00.
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And if you go back and watch that cover video on the 1st
scene, Deb comes in and she has a before she puts on her apron,
she has an insurance that says you can have him son Jolene and
them goes are in the kitchen andshe is like, you can have him
son Jolene. Wait a minute, who does this
have you? Think she is?
How is she going? To give me something that don't
even belong to. It's just like, you know what?
As a matter of fact, you can have him, Jolene.
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And then when she said that, it was like, I feel like all of the
lights got a little brighter. Like we were all like, wait a
minute, I could do this. And, and honestly, during that
process, because you know, as a,as an artist, like you come
across 1000 great ideas a day and you're like, OK, I have to
do something with that. I have to do something with
that. But you can have them.
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Jolene was like one of those, I guess maybe it was just so
poignant. It kind of stuck with us.
And then when we finally sat down to write it, like the same
energy that was in the room whenever we were filming that
day was the same energy that we,when we wrote it recorded and
even got down to do in the musicvideo and all.
Because, you know, sometimes things there's a little
something it gets lost in translation.
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But I feel like this song just had so much energy and life in
it. It like had no choice but to be
what it became. Yeah, and I think also too, like
you always, it kind of took me back to riding in the car with
my dad and asking those questions and, you know, knowing
the song Jolene, and it's like in 1974, I can see how it have
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been perfectly OK to be like, listen, look, I've married this
man, I didn't train this man. I need him back.
Thank you. He's mine.
And this little plane is over, Okay, He's coming home.
It was a stand by your mandate. You know, I get it.
You put in that work. You know, it's no way that from
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1974 to 2024, we still fight over the same man.
So, you know, it was, but I, I absolutely love that too,
because when we, we had an interview with CMT and we, we
played the song for them before it kind of came out to anybody.
And after we finished it was, itwas, it was a zoom call and
there was like 20 people on the zoom call and everyone was
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quiet. And Leslie Fram, we were like,
at first we were like, we have one more song if y'all didn't
like that one. And so but Leslie Fram finally
spoke and she said in 50 years of country music, no one has
ever said that. And we were like, what?
And so, you know, it really, it really was a, it was, it was, I
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think it was a bit of a confidence booster because it
just to, it felt like we were inthe right space at the right
time, you know, writing the right music.
And you know, it was just, it was, it was just one of those
moments for us, I think. Right.
I think that song is kind of like lightning in a bottle
because you're right. That is the typical country
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music songs from back in the day.
Tammy, my man, stand by your man.
You know this. You know, we gone back for him.
No, like you can't have them, but you modernize it and I think
it's just a staple too from whatcountry music is also doing now.
It's not what we always think. It's not what we think is going
to look like too. So I just think it's it's great.
And especially that is a classic, you know, from Dallas.
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I just think it's amazing. So Speaking of, you guys have
gotten some amazing blessings. I mean, I'm a fan of, well, the
former because I know she's no longer with us, but from the
coal miner's daughter herself, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, all
these Tanya Tucker, all these people that have given you guys
their blessing. I know that has to be amazing.
So I want to ask you about your Grand Ole Opry performance.
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That is huge to be performing atthe Grand Ole Opry.
So I have to hear about that experience and also what does it
feel like that you guys were able to get those blessings from
these amazing Titans, Queens in country?
I'll start on at least on the the people who came before us
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like that having all of those women kind of cosign us I think
is probably one of the biggest honors in the world because it's
like these are the women that wegrew up listening to.
And for them to kind of be like,OK girls, I see what y'all are
doing and I love it. And to, you know, publicly say
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that they love what we're doing and they're showing their
support I think is one of the the coolest things in the world.
I'm like, honestly, we don't care about the the label.
No owners, OK, that's fine. But God knows who we are.
And he fucking knows who we are.A rather challenge to us to do
the same thing with one of her songs.
We can eat like a step even further.
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Yeah, to show like their confidence and power, ability as
you know as performers and songwriter.
I feel like we always say she could have very well just been
like y'all, that was incredible.I loved it.
I've listened to it every day. She could have just said that,
but when she was like, no, what y'all can do to one of mine, I
said go on to eat and she said the more songs in there, I know
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it. And so, you know, and, and like
you said, like we, she's, she's no longer with us, but which,
you know, was, was the, it was the heartbreaking part.
But I think the the best part ofthe the part that came out so
beautifully was the fact that even though she packed her way,
her fans weighed in and they they they just it was like
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common effort comment. It was like Loretta would have
loved this. She would have put her stamp of
approval on it. Man, this was right up.
She wished she could have done acollaboration with y'all wish
she could have sang on it. She would have loved it.
And so when we were watching those, you know, I always say
you want to either do it justiceor you want to do it better.
And I don't think we could have done it better than her, her
song fist city. But you know, it feels like we
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did it justice and you know, I just like I said like just even
even Tanya Tucker on our in the finale of AGT, she send us a
message and I always tell peopleour lifelong was terrible.
We based the process of so many things.
We were so emotional and so we literally just cropped through
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our entire song. But right before that Tanya
Tucker sent us a message and shewas like, I see what you girls
are doing. I want, you know, keep hanging
in there. Y'all got some good stuff.
Y'all got some good songs. And then for her to invite us
out to, to join her to open for her in Canada, you know, it
just, it just says a lot, you know, because we, we even now
we're like, can we open for you?We're trying to like, you know,
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ask some of our friends in country music.
Can we open for y'all? Can we come?
Can we say go sick? But you know, and sometimes I
think like when you're when you're when, when you feel like
you're in the same, the the samebox or same, you know,
competition level has another part is sometimes it's hard to
be like, no, no, no, come over. You can come over for me.
And so, but it's it was, but it was the older women who are who
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were like, come on, come on, look, come, come get you, come
get you a little stage time. And so for that, we'll forever
be thankful. And like you said, always tell
people if you want to get me talking, you talk about the
Grand Ole Aubrey. They have truly become our
family. And I always say like, that's
the pinnacle of country music. Like, you know, we're all really
just working to be hope to pray,to be opera members one day and.
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We like to call ourselves members in training.
We're. Yeah, we're opera members in
training. We're just trying to do
everything we're trying to hang out with off remembers, try to
do try to watch what they're doing, try to watch people like
Vince Gill. And it's like, you know, I
always say we'll we'll never I think no one will ever be as
kind as Vince Gill or not as nice as Vince Gill, but we're
all striving to be. So we're in training and but
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there's so much wisdom there andthere is so much you know, they
there isn't one person who hasn't said, if there's anything
that I can do to help you, let me know.
And not meant it and you know and.
I think it's one thing that likewe love so much about like being
a being blessed enough to even go back as much as we do to the
Opry. But I always say the thing I can
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probably closely closest equatedto is like going to your
grandma's house after church on Sunday and you know, you got
family from all over just hanging out because whenever
you're backstage, it doesn't matter.
I mean these these are. Country legends, icons.
And they're sitting in the roomswith their doors open.
You walk past it. Hey, girls, come in here.
Let me talk to you for a little bit.
You're like me, but I feel like the Opry kind of like, it sounds
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a little cliche, but literally everyone there, it's like you're
part of the family. Wow, that's awesome.
And that's great to hear. And I definitely feel like you
guys have that spunk like Loretta Lynn had, because it's
like you said, like she was, shewas about that business like.
Yeah, it was hard. I said it was.
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I always say it was hard. It wasn't too hard rewriting
Jolie and kind of flipping the the the the state of Jolene.
I said Dolly was just kind of sweet and kind of like you're so
beautiful. I can see why he loved you.
You got this beautiful hair and these beautiful eyes.
Loretta, honey, if I catch you talking to my man again, I'm
going to grab you by the hair ofthe head and I'm going to show
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you and I'll fist see now. So just had that always say
there's there's there's women like Dolly and there's women
like Loretta. We're probably more like women
like Loretta. Right, so Loretta was like,
look, you ain't woman enough to take like she was a little.
Fan. I love that.
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So I want to ask you guys, of course, like I said, and I'm
sure you guys are probably sick of this question, but I do have
to ask. So you know, Call call by Carter
had a lot of talk and rumbles about that.
And the thing about Cobbard Carter, I think it awaken people
that forget that we are a part of country music.
So what was your thoughts on it?Because like I said, I think a
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lot of people just, I don't knowwhy they associate that weird
people of color aren't a part ofthe country music genre when we
really are. So I think it, you know, brought
a lot of conversation, obviously, you know, So do you
think it was, did it help or hurt?
Because I think some people kindof forgot that we were already a
part of country music. It was the thing that kind of
boggled my mind. So like, what was your thoughts
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on that whole Cobra Carter talk and everything?
Well, I'll kind of kick it off because I do feel like, you
know, there are definitely positives and negatives that
came from it. But one of one of the positive
things that I have to say, it definitely, like you said,
shined the light on the country's genre as a whole.
And in in two different ways. It shined the light on black
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artists that are already existing in the country music
space and also people as consumers and as listeners,
people who might not have generally listened to country
music that might not have been their go to, they're starting to
tune in so. OK, well let me see what else.
Is going on in the genre. So like as far as like just
overall awareness, I have to saythat it has done a lot.
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And I do the thing that I love about it is, is that the thing I
said I there were so many like debates of is it country?
Is it this, did she come in and disrupt the country music?
Or did she come in and pull up all of, you know, all the black
women in country music? Like, like she said, I think
that there was a there was some,there's some, there are pros and
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cons, But the thing that I I oneperson for mostly, I love that
she she jumped out to to do a country record.
I always say I love that music, music we give, we have people
give music a color, a denomination of this and that
music just is. And it's like, you know, you can
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blindfold somebody. You can blindfold somebody and
you know, and doesn't matter what color they are, if there's
a hip hop artist, if they start rapping and when they start
rapping about their experiences and the things that are
authentic to them, the Pete, thecommunity, the hip hop community
goes, I don't know who that is, but let's put him on like this
fight. And it's I think it's the same
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in country music. When you start singing and you
start riding and you start talking about, you know, growing
up and running barefoot down thestreet and you know, as trio.
Is this her first standard? She knew how to drive as a
tractor or she learned how to drive as a tractor.
And when you start telling thosestories and people go, Dang,
that's exactly how it happened to me.
Like that's exactly then when you're doing the thing that is
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authentic to you and you're connecting and resonating with
the people in that community, inthat genre, in that, in that, in
that space. I think that, you know, there's
a magic in that like as is. So I think that it it matters
not. And also crossing over is just.
Hard. I think, you know, they gave, I
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think Darius Rucker had to take some slack when he first got in.
It was like Booty and the Blowfish.
He ain't Gumtree. But it's it's having the staying
power to stay. And you keep making records and
you keep showing up and those same people turn around and be
like, man, I love Darius Rucker.He's got my favorite.
He's got my favorite album a little while.
So, you know, I just think that I, I, I think that that what
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she, I think that Beyoncé, you know, making Cowboy Carter was,
was it really was a blessing in in many ways, though, because it
had people saying look. There are.
These. African American women and men
in country music that, you know,we weren't even looking for
like, you know, and so, and thennow we, like I've said, the
advancement, we now have people who show up to our gig who they
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go like they, they'll wait in the meet and greet line and they
go, look, we don't like country music, but we, we wanted to show
up. We wanted to buy the ticket.
We wanted you to know that we support you.
And, you know, if we could just have our faces in the place that
we just wanted to do what we could.
And that just blessed my heart. I was like, oh, thank you.
And so, you know, it really, I think they're really brought an
awareness to it. And you know, I, like I said, I
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just I'm, I'm, I'm. Super grateful.
That, that she was, you know, she was ready because also, and
she said in an interview that she was, she had been, she'd
been wanting to make a country record for a really long time.
And, you know, for whatever reason, at one point the time
wasn't right and then it didn't feel right.
And she wanted to do more in themusic, want to do more research.
But I'm glad that she was able to to get her work of her work
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of art out. And as we see, you know, Beyoncé
is who she is. Queen Bee is who she is.
And you know, it shook. It shook the world, it shook the
music world, and not just country music.
I think the entire world of music was shook by it.
Most definitely. And it did bring a lot of
conversation. And I think one of the the
positive sides of it, it was like, OK, wait a minute.
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These are other artists of colorwho had been in the game for
such a long time. And especially when she included
some on the album. So it was really great, you
know, that she was able to stop the conversation.
So I want to ask you guys too, were there any challenges that
you guys have had, you know, break into this genre as a
young, young women or women of color are just starting off new
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and fresh? Were there any challenges that
you guys face and if so, how didyou guys overcome them?
I think with just like anything in life, you know, they are, we
have definitely had our fair share of challenges and
struggles and no's and ups and downs is an understatement.
But I think one thing about it being an independent artist has
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it's super difficult. You know, this industry is crazy
and just trying to break in. You know, there are millions of
artists every day trying to break into the genre or, you
know, into the industry period. So I think just being
independent and learning to still handle all of the things
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in the band, then having to do the business side and pretty
much running this entire thing and funding this entire thing on
our own has been it's very difficult.
But we just kind of we just learn to, we take a lot of what
is it called? You just kind of roll with the
punches, I think. And every time we get told no, I
think we just reset and just figure out how else we can make
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it happen. How else do we make this work?
How do we continue to keep ourselves on the road?
And it really comes back to likeour fans who buy tickets and buy
the merch and they do all the things and whatever they can
really to help us stay on the road and help from what we're
doing. Yeah.
I think also, too, a big struggle is, is breaking the
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perception of tradition, I think.
And that's what I would say. I only tell people, I don't ever
blame country music for, you know, not, not getting, not
giving us a record deal or not opening the door because as a
business, as a business model, you do what works and you put it
on paper. And from just far back, as you
can know and remember, you can put a male in a, in a tight
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white T-shirt and tight jeans and they are going to flock to
those stadiums every time. So as a business model in
country music, men, men work andit, you know, and it just, but
also, so it's, it's part of the struggle has been like working
past the mindset of tradition. And sometimes it's working three
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times as hard to show that you've got the songs, you've got
the chop, you can be out on the road that you know, there's
nothing about being a woman thatholds you back from any,
anything that the men are doing that you know, and, and even
even white women in. In country music.
Have a have a hard time. We've got so many just like
close friends. And we can probably name like 50
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of them, but there's probably three of them being played on
the radio. So we're all kind of like, you
know, facing, facing similar struggles.
But, you know, being Black womendefinitely is a it's another.
It's just one more, one more. Yeah.
And but it's just, you know, youcan have the attitude that, you
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know, I'm black. So they're not they're not
letting me in. You can just keep working hard.
You can keep showing up and you keep writing the music.
And you know, it's all about having it's all about the
stamina to be in this industry. It's it's surviving.
It is, you know, I think it was Craig Daddy on Friday that you
live to fight another day. And so you might get knocked
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down today, but you got to get up tomorrow and you but you at
least have another day that you can write again, you can sing
again, you can. And so it's just really trying
to keep it up optimistic view onyour artistry in the industry
because honey, it is a sometimeson a day-to-day basis is enough
to knock you to your knees and push you out the industry out
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of, you know, a lot of times youlook at artists like Warren Hill
and you see why she left just the music business.
And she was such a talented singer and vocalist and
lyricist. But that, like I said, the, the,
the business of music, it's enough to bring you to your
knees. So surviving and, you know,
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finding the people who help you get through it is, is really
like the biggest thing. And you know, the biggest, it's
the biggest thing that you really want to look for, I
think, when you're building thiscareer.
So Speaking of resetting, I knowyou mentioned like sometimes you
just have to reset. I want to ask you guys.
We do talk about mental health alot on our program.
So I want to ask you guys, you know, I mean, you're in a very
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complex industry. We all know the music business,
there's a lot business is longerthan the word show, so we know
it's show business. Obviously there's a lot behind
the scenes that the artists dealwith.
So how do you guys, you know, cater to your mental health with
touring business? Just you have to cater to
yourself. So what are the some of the
practices that you guys have to cater to your mental health and
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Wellness? I'll kick it off one of the
things especially because like he said, with touring and
everything, like, you know, everybody likes to say, find
your happy place to create that happy space.
But as an artist, especially an independent artist, sometimes
that can't be a physical place. So you have to learn how to, you
know, maybe it's put on your headphones, listen to a
playlist, but like get in your get into your own mental happy
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space and trying to try to create that piece wherever you
are and just don't get too caught up in the rat race.
And, and a lot of the times our fans will tell us, you know,
sometimes just slow down, but kind of like just learning to
appreciate the things that you've accomplished thus far and
don't try to like keep up with this person or the next person
and just, you know, stay fit before you.
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So one of the things I want to ask you to with our program, we
do believe in self love. Self love is the field to have
that confidence, the field to turn that no into a yes, the
field to motivate, to accomplishyour dreams and to also be a
trailblazer and to be different.So I want to ask you guys
individually, how do you guys define self love and what role
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has it played in your life? I.
Think self love is just kind of I think when you get to a place
where you can get like when you truly start to understand
yourself, because I'm not going to say completely understand
yourself because we we can, we are constantly evolving as as
people. So I think just getting to a
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place where you can understand yourself and learn to trust
yourself. I think for me that is one of
the biggest forms of self love. I guess you could.
Say. And kind of piggybacking off of
that, like getting to know yourself and understanding
yourself, but also understandingwhen and how and where to set
those boundaries to protect yourself and protect your peace.
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I think I get that we're, if we're talking mental health and
self love, I think that kind of like Tree said before, it's
finding the time to make the time to, to, to check to check
yourself. And sometimes, you know, there's
a lot going on. And like, you know, with us,
it's always it's, it's interviews, it's it's radio and
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this is that. But sometimes it's knowing when
to just say, hey, listen, look, I need a minute.
I need a minute to go and find the find the way to center
yourself, find those affirmations.
I would see all the time on TikTok where the moms would be
doing the, the, the little girlshere.
And they say, I am, I am courageous, I am beautiful, I am
strong, I am patient. I am and it's fun.
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And, and I, I used to say to her, I said, it's corny as it
may sound, as weird as it may feel, do it because when you
speak those things, they, they, they, they, you give them life.
And so on the day that you really don't feel like that
you're beautiful and you don't feel like you are kind and you
don't feel patient, you feel frustrated on on it.
As you're saying those things, they're already, they're already
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making way in the world and in the universe to to make space
for it. So you may not be you may not
feel beautiful in the moment, but if you can just say it, the
words will start to kind of attach.
They'll attach to it. And by the time it makes it back
to you, you'll start to feel that beauty, you'll start to
feel that love. You'll start to feel.
So always say be careful what you say and speak to about
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yourself and to yourself. And you know, a lot of times
ago, I can't do this. Oh man, this is I used to always
say, Lord, I'm the most unluckiest person, but unlucky
thing would happen to me and I said it's what?
And finally, I'm manager said it's what you're saying, like if
you say that that's what that's what he catches up to you.
He was like, so start saying I'mlucky, like start saying, man, I
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love when I find a $20 bill on the ground.
It's always and but you know, and I was like, that's so weird.
But I started to just kind of change what I said about myself.
And you know, and it really doesstart to turn that self love.
And then you go, look, you know,even on the days that you're
inside, kind of the days that where your emotion kind of gets
away from you, so you and you just can't grab it, There's
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something in the back of your head, though, there's something
in the back of your heart that just know like like, you know, I
just be kind. You got to learn to give
yourself grace. But if you can give yourself a
little grace to say, look, I maynot feel it today, but I'll be
back tomorrow or you know, I may, I need a couple of days,
but I'll be back to it. So I think just what you say to
it about yourself is so important and it's vital to your
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mental health and yourself love.I love it, yes, because there's
definitely power in the tongue. What we what?
We. Speak about ourselves and I
think sometimes we take that lightly, you know, because we'll
say little things, but whatever we speak of ourselves, but we're
declaring that for our lives. So that's so important with self
love is to speak highly of yourself, just like we we don't
(36:31):
want to say anything bad about somebody else, but what about
you? So I definitely thank you for
that. Now before we get everything, I
want to put you guys on the spotNow we had to come up with a
playlist of some hits, some country hits.
It could be current past playlist on what we can put on
that phone or for that next drive or whatever.
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What's a good playlist for us? I'm playing almost anything
Gretchen Wilson. I mean.
She has the. The catalog gives everything
from a girls night out to being in the bed heartbroken with the
lonely. OK, so pick a Gretchen.
So I think we can probably go through maybe like four or three
fast. Rings all jacked up.
(37:14):
Gretchen Wilson. Is this like?
Road trip, maybe So, yeah, let'ssay road trip.
But also too, I think that you got to have the UPS and like you
got to have some valid, some, some, you know, put your arm out
the wind and be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So. But I'm going to have to put
Garth Brooks the dance. OK, And I don't know, like this
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is my personal driving song probably every time you get to
the truck. Johnny Cash's I've been
everywhere, man. I live.
We can listen to it a lot growing up, but I feel like even
now I'm just listening to like him, name all the cities.
He's like, man, we really do be.OK.
We need like quickly, like two more.
Two more songs. OK.
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So I'm going to do have the one Carly Pierce and then I'm also
going to do here for the party pictures, OK.
Also, I guess if I've got to take, if I've got to take one,
I've got to put in nine to five by dollar lately.
Don't, don't, don't. It does get you going.
And then let's see, I guess if Ihad to take.
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Oh, and I'm going to do my second one after yours because
she came. Again, now I thought he was
going to keep talking because I'm still thinking, oh, well,
you know what, I think we'll probably add don't think I don't
think about it. Darius Rucker.
I think somebody could sing along too and just lose myself
for a little bit. And then you know what?
Number 2, not a very well known group, but this is definitely
(38:41):
like now. I can't imagine getting on the
road without hearing it. But Lend Me Your Heart by Ryan
Macy and Buffalo Gospel. That is such a beautiful song.
One more. One more Vince Gills.
Anything? Well, whenever, yeah, whenever
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you come around and I'm say Vince Gill.
But our friend Wendy Moten covered Wendy.
She was a runner up on the boys,I think maybe season 20 or
something like that or 19 or 20.And she she got a chance to
honor Vince Gill with Whenever You come around and that used to
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be my favorite Vince Gill song until Wendy song it.
I said Vince, she even snatched it from me and he said Wendy
Mullins version is better. He said it's my favorite Vince
Gill song as well. So we joke about it.
But whenever you come around, it's probably got to go on the
list too. That's pretty solid.
That's a pretty solid starter kit.
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I love it. You guys did a good job and I
actually interviewed Wendy a fewweeks ago, so you guys get a
break. Isn't she the?
I love her, I love it. I just like I said, I love
talking to you musicians obviously, but Wendy, she is
she's top class. Like she's top tier.
Guy, I'm always like Wendy, whencan we just come to your house
(40:06):
and sit down and sit and chat because I'm just I just want to
pick her brain and get all the wisdom and also to tell her
snatch some of those vocal cordsand I just want to put them in
my because my girl when I thank you people are always like y'all
can say your phone book make a menu, a Chinese restaurant menu
and just. I love Wendy, she's awesome, but
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before we end everything, what can we expect next?
Like where can people catch you?I know you guys have glory days.
Like what? What's coming up next for you
guys? Well, actually in two weeks
we're getting ready to head backto the UK and we're going to be
doing the Long Run Festival. We've got some shows in London
as well as Glasgow and we're going to be doing an armed
(40:55):
forces tour so we can bring a little joy to our our troops
overseas. So we're going to be in Japan.
And then after that we are hitting the road on our
Christmas tour. Yeah, we're getting ready to
release. Our very first Christmas.
Album. October 25th going to be called
a Heartfelt family Christmas. So we are super, super excited
about the end of this year. We got some exciting things.
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So y'all make sure that you're following us on all social media
platforms for show tickets and merchchapelheart.com for it's a
one stop shop you can get anything.
And I think we're going to be inSwitzerland in September as
well. But I just think all of that to
say we're we'll barely be in theUS, so go check those dates And
if we were even close to I always think if it's within a
(41:39):
three hour drive, I would take it.
It's all it's a fun show. It's a family friendly show.
It is, you know, it's not very many things that you can bring
the whole family out to nowadaysthat you know, but it's fun and
you'll get to hear some of your favorite Chapel heart songs.
Will we cover some of our just favorite songs in general.
And it just it's a it's a fun experience.
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So I always tell we will go check that website, see if we're
coming close to you. If we are, get your tickets
because I promise you it will bethe best dollars that you have
ever spent. Wow, I love it.
This has been an amazing conversation.
I'm so grateful to have the chance to talk to all three of
you. And like I said, I just love
this conversation. I love country music and I like
(42:25):
Carrie Underwood's. Maybe next time he'll think
before he cheats, which that's kind of like a song to get you a
little upset. But you know, I love that song,
But you know, I just have to throw that in there.
But I definitely love talking toyou guys.
And I know you guys are going tojust have like such a long
career. And I just thank you all for
what you're doing. You're bringing more
conversation to country music and I just love that that what
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you're doing like the the place that you guys made for
yourselves in this industry. And I think you're a great,
great, great example just from starting from America's Got
Talent, just to show people, hey, don't listen to those no's.
Don't let these outside voices stop you from pursuing your
dreams. So thank you guys again for this
conversation. And you guys make sure you
follow the Chapel heart band on all their social media networks.
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And like they said, if they're in town near you, even if it's a
three hour drive, get behind that car and listen to those
songs on that playlist and checkthem out.
And just remember to like we talked about some things that
music, but they also are an example to like I said, follow
your dreams, pursue it. Don't let other people talk you
out of your blessing. Nothing that's meant for you,
it's meant for you. It's not meant for them.
So their opinion does not matter.
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So follow your dreams. And guys, remember, you can
catch this episode and more www.goqueen.com.
Make sure you be safe and go love yourself.
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