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Hey, this is Shelby and Quinn here at the Russell in East Nashville with Randall King.

So you're not new to Whiskey Riff and our fan base. I went to go see what the first article we ever wrote about you was, and it was in March of 2019. Wow. And it was about your single, Taking Me a Heartbreak, which is one of my favorites of yours, actually still to this day. So I just thought that was really cool. That has been over five years of us covering your. That's awesome. I don't even know. It was a single in 2019. I was thinking it was earlier than that. Does it feel like it was not too long ago that that single released? I don't know. It feels like it was 10 years ago. That really? One of those things where it feels longer. I mean, it was It was pre-COVID, so I think COVID made everything feel like it was... Aged to Saul.

Yeah.

Five years.

Wow, that's the first article, huh?

Yeah. Pre-Colvid, so I think COVID made everything feel like it was... Ageed of all. Yeah, five years. Wow, that was the first article, huh? Yeah, there's everyone about you. And that article also had a Garth Brooks quote in it, where he said that this kid is what country music is all about to me. Is that something where, like, you know, you had met him before then, or was that a compliment

that he just gave?

Well, I think at that point, if you guys had, let's see, if you guys had that article now,

that would have been, was at the beginning of 19 or end of 19? Do you all remember? March. Yeah. It was March or 19th or the beginning. So at that point, my album had come out in 2018, May of 18.

My self-tile record had taken me a heart break, mirror, mirror, taking them

heartstrings.

And that... in 2018, May of 18. My self-thottle record that had taken me a heartbreak, mirror,

took it to my heartstrings.

And that, that record had come across Garth's desk.

My publishing company at the time was BMG.

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