up really going down the path of

country music's kind of connections historically and, you know, back and forth with West Africa.

But a big way in for me was on my mom's side through Jamaica music.

And I sort of talked to my mom about it, talked to my uncles and aunts and worked my way backwards to my grandparents.

Neither are around anymore.

But at the time, my grandmother was still around and talked to her about her love of music and basically started to organically come across all those things you mentioned earlier.

just in their personal histories.

And so for our listeners tuning in, what are some other of your favorite examples of these sort of connections between the Caribbean and country music?