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Hello, welcome to the podcast of Shortcuts.

I'm Josie Long, and today's episode is a beautiful episode about music

and what music is capable of doing and connection.

And it's called Grace Notes.

And a producer of this episode, Andrea, really wanted me to sing both of these links.

But I feel too timid.

But what I will do is I'll sing you my old voicemail that I had on my phone for 10 years.

That I really miss.

It was this.

I'm Josie Long.

I say hello.

Hello, hello. Why don't you leave me a message i say hello which is sort of like

veering into my terrible bob Dylan impression that I really love and also stealing quite openly

from the Beatles um I hope you're enjoying it and I hope you enjoyed today's show.

This is Shortcuts. She belted out words I could barely scribble in my journal without sweating.

I didn't have that kind of vulnerability. Brief encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. Today, Grace Notes.

Your whole being become that power of that note or the energy of that note. You are out of

body because you travel with the sound so you don't exist in your body.

Even the choice to write songs and to put my heart out on stage and you're presenting your

own family history to an audience you'd ever met, there's a lot of her that I take with me

for courage and for the sort of hand at my back.

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