Reba McEntire

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

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4.7 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Reba McEntire arrived in Nashville nearly five decades ago, when she was just a young rodeo queen with a knockout voice. Since then, the Queen of Country has sold more than 60 million albums, racked up 24 No. 1 songs and even become a television star. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, Willie gets together with the icon to talk about her lifetime of entertainment and the trail she has blazed through the music industry.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down Podcast.
0:12.2	My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.
0:15.2	Man, am I excited this week because I am bringing you a conversation with an honest to goodness
0:20.6	icon.
0:21.6	It's a term that's overused in this case it applies.
0:24.5	She is.
0:25.5	Reba Mackentire.
0:26.5	Come on.
0:27.5	Reba Mackentire.
0:29.4	Reba just wrapped up another sold out cross country tour.
0:33.2	The last date on that tour was at Madison Square Garden in venues she had never played
0:38.0	before, believe it or not.
0:39.6	Naturally, she sold out the place.
0:42.0	Big crowd in New York to see her.
0:43.5	We were lucky enough to spend some time afterwards sit down and chat with her at a bar in Midtown.
0:49.6	And man, she's just, she's everything you hope she'd be.
0:52.9	She's smart and funny and experienced and wise and cool.
0:57.8	And we had a great time talking with her about what it's like to walk on stage at Madison
1:02.5	Square Garden, a place by the way.
1:04.2	As you will hear, that has some family history with the Mackentires.
1:07.1	Her great grandfather was a rodeo champion, won the national rodeo at the garden in the 1930s.
1:13.2	Her dad then was a national rodeo champion.
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