What's happening? Welcome to Wong Notes podcast. I am your host, Corey Wong. It's been kind of a fun week for me. It's a album release week. I just put out a new album called The Striped Album. I feel really great about it. Honestly, I think it's my best album I've made yet. And I know a lot of people like say that sort of thing about a lot of stuff. Most of my albums that I put out, I feel really good about. But this one in particular,

I just feel like I really kind of nailed a thing that I was going for. And I feel like I've

discovered myself much more as an artist and what I want to say with my music. So I feel really

good about it. Do you have me checked it out, check it out.

Today on the podcast, I have Madison Cunningham.

She is an incredible artist, songwriter, singer, guitar player.

Also somebody, we get into talking about this,

but who's continually discovering who they are

and what they want to say through their music.

A lot of people have said, oh my gosh, you know, Madison seems like she came out of nowhere

and is just all of a sudden everywhere, which we even get to a little bit in the podcast.

But I think that is kind of unfair in a certain way because it discredits all of the years

that she had first of just growing up, working on her craft and learning music,

but also the several years leading up to this as a professional musician doing the thing,

trying to get exactly to the place that she's at now.

And figuring out what her voice is in all those areas as a singer, songwriter, guitar player.

The other thing that I actually really like about her is that she's not afraid to do covers as well as her original music and do just kind of her own take on the covers.

I think a lot of times you can beat a dead horse by doing covers in a certain style over and over and over again.

It's like, okay, okay, okay, we get it.

But I think for her, she's got a really cool way of interpreting songs and bringing the

song out in a new way rather than just trying to do a song in a new genre.

There's a lot of that sort of thing, which is fine that can be entertaining.

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