Hey it's Granger!

Hey, it's Granger. This is my podcast episode 14. Thank you so much for listening today, wherever you are, I am in Ohio. And I want to tell you some stories.

Here we go.

I'm sitting in the back of my bus, Wildflower,

and I'm overdue for a podcast. come up to meet and greets and they say I listen to your

podcast and it gets me a great insight to who you are as a person not just an artist

and that's worth it to me. That's worth sitting here in the parking lot outside of a venue I'm about to play, turning on the microphone and my

computer, and telling some stories. I want to talk about some new things coming up here this

fall. I want to talk about the continuation of a story that I've been telling

throughout all of these podcasts, one through 13, and that's how I got to be

the artist that you found, whether it was YouTube or social media or at a concert

or on the radio.

I left off my story about 2009, 10.

I had just met Amber in a music video

and I was working on a new album called Poets and Prisoners.

Sitting here looking out the window in the parking lot and the opening band just pulled up and they pulled up in a van just like the one that I drove for so many years beating up that highway.

And it's only appropriate that now I'm talking about those years.

Those years made me who I am today.

I hear people all the time, they'll say, maybe in a radio interview,

they'll say, you've been doing this for a long time, you know, you've been doing this for a long time you know you've been doing this

10 15 20 years you've been doing this a long time and they almost say it in a

negative way and I always try to spin it back to them and say those years made me who I am.

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