#440 - Lauren Watkins on Growing up In Nashville and Why It’s Hard Playing Shows Here + Being Nervous Opening for Morgan Wallen in Stadiums + How SEC Expereience Influenced Her Music
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Nashville Podcast Network
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 March 2024
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Lauren Watkins (@lauren.watkins) is one of those rare artists who actually grew up in Nashville. She sat down with Bobby Bones to share her experience of growing up in Music City and the struggles she faced trying to break into the music scene and why she feels it's hard to play in Nashville. Lauren went to Ole Miss and details how the SEC influenced her music. She also reveals how nervous she is to be opening for Morgan Wallen in stadiums on his tour this summer. Lauren has been described as having "barstool charm" and opens up about what she thinks that means. Plus, Bobby has a big surprise for her and more!
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| 0:14.3 | hosted, not narrated, we're just dropping into a woman's world. I found out when my |
| 0:19.0 | dad was gay when I was 10, we were in a convertible on the 405 freeway, listening to the B-52s. |
| 0:26.0 | Looking back, I should have said, this is gay. This is already all gay. |
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| 0:50.3 | And I'm Rob Sheffield. We're here to shed light on the greatest songs ever made and discover what makes them so great. |
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| 1:39.3 | answers I had this title when I came up with that I thought this is great somebody's totally going to like this and I remember I |
| 1:54.2 | went into write it was a group of writers I didn't know that well and I threw out the |
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