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I mean, I, I, I did, like, one other video after the fact, but then I went on, like, professional shoots.

Like I, I, you know, produced and direct Trick My Truck for five seasons and some other CMT reality shows.

Um, it was nice to kinda get away from that chaos.

Um, but yeah, he just sat on it forever and just, you know-

Okay.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[laughs] But it was the CMT version.

So we did-

By '95, she was appearing on TV specials and talk shows and building the kind of recognition that would later support her acting career.

And then there was CMT, Country Music Television.

It had launched more than a decade earlier, but by 1995 it was reaching more homes than ever, and that meant a family in California or in New England could flip on TV and see Martina McBride or Alan Jackson or Brooks & Dunn on a daily basis.

It gave country music a consistent national presence, similar to what MTV had done for pop or for rock.

Now, if you were a casual listener in 1995, you might have first encountered her music on country radio.

But it didn't stay there.

You probably then got it walking through the mall or a pop station once it crossed over, or in living rooms that maybe would have never been on CMT otherwise, or even MTV.

She made country cool for audiences who had previously written it off as old-fashioned or corny.

You've worked every kind of job that you can think of, and she's now a wife and a mom, which is awesome, and who's out there writing and recording songs that make hardworking women feel seen and heard, which that's awesome.

She- you made your Grand Ole Opry debut, which is, like, super cool, back in 2022, and then you were named CMT's Next Woman of Country Class of 2023, and you earned the endorsement of one of my all-time heroes, the late, great Red Solo Cup, Mr. Toby Keith, and all his patriotism.

Y'all make welcome, uh, to the, the, The Roadshow podcast, Kimberly Kelley.

Welcome.

right you don't mean who like nobody can stand who tries to play the puppet master powers booth an excellent casting choice for that um but yeah yeah i just i was like yeah you know some cool scenes of actual nashville places like they do some stuff in the bluebird cafe and that type of stuff i was like yeah it's cool like you know if you like country music you're gonna like parts of it i think um but again my understanding is later on they did a lot more music kind of stuff than you see in the especially i feel like the first season maybe even

well maybe because later on like i read that uh whoever was showing it like didn't pick it up with the like last two seasons were picked up by cmt so i wonder if it started picking up more musically after that

Yeah.

Yeah.

Only worry in the world is the tide gonna reach my chair.

Jimmy, can't you see? You aren't wanted on CMT.

[singing] At a moment like this, I can't help but wonder.

[singing] What would Jimmy Buffett do? [applause] Funny you should ask, Alan [laughs].

earning herself a trip to Nashville after being selected from over 250 artists nationwide.

With over 50,000 followers, more than 350,000 streams, five singles in high rotation on ABC Country and a two-times CMT music video premiere, Sarah Lynn is fast cementing her place as a standout voice in contemporary country music.

Her singles have charted nationally and her standout smash hit Cowgirl Blues hit number one on the AMRAP charts.

I did notice that in fact.