All right.

Hey, everybody, welcome to a new episode of Rolling Stones, Nashville Now.

Our podcast about country music and all things Nashville.

I am your host, Joseph Hudak, senior music editor at Rolling Stone.

Hey, country is here.

Nashville is now.

And today we're going to welcome our guest, Dasha.

She's going to talk about her breakout success and where she's headed next.

And we're also going to do a little news, music news chatting with a dear friend of ours and

Rolling Stone contributor and author Josh Kutchmer. Hello, Josh Kutchmer. How's it going, Joseph? How you doing, man? I'm having a real good time. This is a great setup you guys have here, and I'm so glad this is out into the world. It's been a joy to take him, but it's also pretty important. I'm glad it's...

Well, thank you. Thank you. We're trying. We're trying to raise the discourse on the genre

that we all love so much. It needed more discourse. We needed more discourse. I was just thinking,

walking in here. Thank God we have more discourse right now. Country music. It was fun until it wasn't.

Yeah, there's some things that I really want to talk to you about because you are expertly knowledgeable, intimately aware of some of the topics and artists that I want to throw your way.

And I think we'll start with kind of like, you know, he's been the man of the hour recently.

A lot of stuff in the news about this gentleman, a lightning rod of sorts for authenticity in country music.

And kind of the A-B of that contrasting it with mainstream country music.

That is Charlie Crockett.

Yeah, man, I've spent quite a bit of time in the past year with Charlie, with the capstone being

back in March.

I went with him to the Houston rodeo.

Spent that day with him as he

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