Mindy Smith

Joan Osborne is on it.

Mindy Smith did the cover of Jolene that I think honestly is the reason that I was like, I want to go anywhere Dolly wants to take me because like that song and that cover.

Or terrific.

Mindy Smith.

Yeah, I don't really know her otherwise.

Michelle Ndungulu.

I mean, in I think it was 2020 or 2019, she won a Christian Grammy for There Was Jesus with someone named Zach Williams, who I've never heard of.

And when Mindy Smith hit the scene on Sugar Hill Records, just this beautiful, um, fragile-voiced songwriter who could rear back her head and belt, she did Jolene.

And we're talking the '10s, here comes Dolly Parton to sing a duet with her and be in the video, and it, it, it made her career.

Like, suddenly she went from being a girl on an indie to, oh my God, Mindy Smith.

How would those collaborations be formed, Holly? I mean, how on, would someone like Mindy Smith end up getting in contact with Dolly and having those conversations?

My guess with Mindy Smith is Dolly's producer, one of Dolly's many producers is a man named Steve Buckingham.

He did have ties to that independent, uh, bluegrass Sugar Hill community, so he could have asked.

Right? So it's someone that, that, that had a line into the, into the, the organization that said, "Would you listen to this song?" And they did.