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Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast

Episode 33 - Kelsea Ballerini (1-24-17)

Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast

Nashville Podcast Network

Music, Music Interviews

4.84.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Bobby is joined this week by Kelsea Ballerini. Bobby and Kelsea talk about how she got her start writing music professionally in college which lead to her writing her first single. Kelsea talks about how she feels going into writing her 2nd album, her engagement and how exciting it is to be nominated for a Grammy!

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to episode 33 of the Bobby cast

0:05.2

here with Kelsey Belly and

0:07.4

Our sponsor blue apron and 100 flowers. Thank you to those guys

0:10.8

Hello Kelsey. Hello. Do you know that the funny thing is I feel like

0:15.7

The first time ever I actually researched you because I was like what in the world is there about Kelsey that I didn't know because I was trying to find an angle with these

0:23.3

Did you find anything I did actually did I found something I did not know about you and I'll get to it in a second

0:28.5

But it was weird because I mean we've known each other since I mean

0:34.6

I've been here really two and a half years probably yeah, ever I mean funny. That's ever but

0:42.2

So I started looking things up. I didn't know you were in college here. Yeah, I went to Lipscomb

0:47.2

I had no idea for two years. So you moved out to Nashville at what age 15?

0:52.3

Okay, so you move out here and your mom comes with you my mom came with me. She got a job here from outside Knoxville from

0:58.0

Knoxville. Yeah, so you mean she gets a job here

1:01.6

What is it like you're a kid and you want to move to Nashville and be an artist? Yeah, and she

1:08.0

Just moved and got a new job because of that. Well, it's funny. I started writing when I was 12 loved it

1:14.1

But I danced for 10 years at the gym like gymnastics and love that too and so I think I liked a lot of things but

1:22.9

I think mom kind of watched it go from like a hobby to a passion something that I was

1:28.7

really committed to and not just doing in my spare time or whatever and

1:33.7

So we started coming out here on the weekends and you know whenever we could and just meeting people and going to writers rounds and seeing what it was about at how old at 12 13 really

1:43.9

I had my first demo session out here when I was like 13 years old. Explain what that is to people that I know back then

1:50.4

it was when you hire a bunch of studio musicians and you

1:54.4

Have like have an engineer and they come in and you play them your song. I played it on guitar

2:00.9

Because they didn't have a recording of it and they do the Nashville number system. Write it all down go in play your song like two or three times down

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