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Hey and welcome back to Nashville After Hours where we get into the stories behind the songs and the artists taking country music around the world. I'm Tina Tennessee and tonight's guest is someone who's built a truly global country career from New Zealand to Nashville and beyond. With songs like Keith and Ring on It, she's bringing energy, personality, and a fresh perspective to the genre. Please, everyone, welcome Kaylee Bell.

SPEAKER_03 0:37

Hello.

SPEAKER_00 0:38

Hi Kaylee, thank you so much for joining us.

SPEAKER_03 0:41

Thank you for having me.

SPEAKER_00 0:42

Oh, it's lovely to have you on. You're somebody who I've been wanting to talk to actually for a very long time now.

SPEAKER_03 0:48

Aw, thank you so much. I um I really appreciate that.

SPEAKER_00 0:51

You've had a really incredible journey. So let's let's just we're gonna dive straight in. Um you started your your music, you've started in New Zealand and you've come to like an international audience. That's no small thing. So, how did you feel when things were starting to like take off for you? What was that like?

SPEAKER_03 1:12

Yeah, I mean, I've been singing country music since I was four years old with my brother and sister in New Zealand, and um just to give a little bit of backstory on that, because I feel like a lot of people are like that's so random. Like, um, you know, New Zealand is not, it was not a country music kind of um ground in the sense of there was no radio that played country music. So it was very much uh my grandparents and my parents were big fans and used to find like CDs on the Reader's Digest and all these different ways um of finding American country music um because that's what we grew up on. And um yeah, it was always just a hobby, it was always just something we did in the weekends. There's a really strong talent quest circuit in New Zealand where you go and sing in the weekends with other kids. So we're all singing all this American country and competing in these talent quests and things, but never ever thought it would be a career. Um obviously growing up in a small town in the South Island of New Zealand, like the bottom of the world. Um, nobody really ever told me that was a career choice, but I guess the great thing is my parents also never told me that it wasn't. So it was just something that I enjoyed doing and we loved doing, and I kept doing through um, you know, university and um paid my way through uni gigging in the weekends and things like that. And um, yeah, I got my first taste of Nashville when I was 18. I flew over there by myself for a month and just kind of just winged it. Um, and it was funny because I remember the minute I landed and hearing the George Strait thing and the airport, and um, I know everybody's kind of got their Nashville story and the carpet that's so infamous, but for me it was so I really felt like the guitar was hanging in front of the ceiling.

SPEAKER_00 2:45

It did it for me.

SPEAKER_03 2:47

It's crazy, and it's like people talk about this a lot, but I genuinely had that feeling like that, like, oh my god, this is like where I was meant to be my whole life, and um yeah, so just never stopped going back and forth to Nashville. And um I think over the last sort of yeah, I'd say five years or so, this industry and this genre has just become more and more global, and you kind of look back now. I I kind of do have to have moments of reflection just to see like how far the genre just in it in itself has come, you know. It's it's on radio here now in New Zealand and um like commercial radio and mainstream radio, um, and it's just it's just getting bigger and bigger, and um yeah, I have to pinch myself that we now get to say that this is like what we do. We wake up and I get to make music and I get to travel to all around the world. We've just been in Europe playing shows, we've coming back to the UK later in the year, obviously America and Australia, and um yeah, it's just it's amazing to to know that that you can do anything in life, really.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

It's funny you say about it being on radio as well. Like now I I I don't expect not to hear it on the radio, but you know, up until recently, you didn't have country stations even here. You'd have to it would have to be a CD or you put it on your car or in your house or you know, listen to it.

SPEAKER_03 4:00

There was no such thing as like passive listening, you know. It was always like you said, like you actually actively had to go and put it on yourself. Whereas now it's like and it's not uncommon now to hear country music back to back on radio either, which was also like you know, you might get the token song every now and then, but now it's like I'd say, you know, every yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:20

You got the country stations that play it all, haven't you? But even you'll you'll hear it now on the mainstream radio with you know, like all the songs on there, is it and you're like, oh, that's a bit country, love that.

SPEAKER_03 4:29

So exciting. That was always a dream for me was to turn on the radio and hear it, and it was like, and that's finally happening, and it's taken 20 years. Uh that's always weird. Um, I have a little one-year-old now, and it's funny because he is like his ears perk up, and it's like so funny watching his kind of reaction to it. Um but yeah, it's always, you know, it's always an amazing thing because like I said, having growing up without it, now to have it is like, yeah, it's something that I'll always be grateful for, I think.

SPEAKER_00 4:56

Yeah, I've said it to a few people that we've chatted to it. Like, welcome to the party, thank you for finally catching up the rest of the world.

SPEAKER_03 5:03

Totally. Um Yeah, I mean, we know we know country fans are the best fans in the world, right? They've just been sitting waiting for this moment, so it's great.

SPEAKER_00 5:11

They have, yeah, and now they're let loose.

SPEAKER_03 5:13

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

Um, I want to talk about Keith, because that has really taken on like a life of its own, hasn't it? What was it like? What was it like to write it? What made you write it? And did you write it with a specific goal in mind that you were gonna go and sing it in front of him, or was it like I'm just gonna do this, and then the opportunity came? Tell me a bit. I want I want to know all about because I love that song.

SPEAKER_03 5:36

Oh, thank you so much. I feel like that song has really been the one that's connected me to the world, which is um, yeah, it's amazing. Um, and no, that song has had quite a journey. I'll start with the um the way that that song was written. So I woke up in the middle of the night and I still have the voice note on my phone, and I just had this little melody, which was the chorus that you hear now. It was like da-da-da-da-da-da. And I could just hear like little snippets of words and things, and when I woke up in the morning and to listen back to it, it was like I could hear like a lot of those words that I was like, man, there's a lot of things that sound like very Keith kind of song titles in there, and so I just sort of started jotting them down and um didn't do anything with the idea for about a year and a half. I was like, eh, like I don't I don't know what that is. Um, and then one day I was in a songwriter in Nashville with two of my really good friends, Lindsay Rhymes and Phil Barton, um, who are expat Australians, they live in Nashville, and um I was like, hey guys, I've got this really crazy idea. Like, I just feel like we should have a crack at it. Like, if it if there was anyone I was gonna write it with, it's them. They're massive Keith fans as well, and um, they just know, you know, know the whole my my style and what I was trying to do with it. Um, and so yeah, we just kind of like laid it out. It was one of the fastest songs I've ever written. I think we wrote it in about 40 minutes. Um and yeah, left it that day, took it away. Lindsay sent me like the work tape, and um I I kind of like instantly loved it, but also again, I just was like, ah, I don't really know what to do with this. Like when you're kind of getting into that tribute kind of world, it's a weird world to be in. You're like, I don't know. I like this was just something that I we felt like I felt like I needed to write, and we've now written it, what do I do? And I had a lot of people I sent it to a few kind of label execs and things in Nashville that I knew at the time, and they were like, don't release that, like that will be career suicide, like do not do that. And so I actually sat on it for like another, I'd say close to a year. I just had the work tape, and one of my favorite things to do when I go driving is to put on like demos and listen back and hear if like something feels like ah, that's still feels cool, like you know, a few weeks later. And that was one that I just kept going back to, and every time I'd finish, I'd be like, I want to hear it again. And so after a while, I was like, honestly, I feel like maybe I'm just like I'm overthinking this, and I'm just gonna like put this out in the world and see what happens. And this was 2019, I put it out, nothing really happened, which was totally fine. I mean, people discovered it and it was all good, and um, and then we went into lockdown, we went into COVID, and for New Zealand, I was in New Zealand at the time and it was a very strict lockdown, like we pretty much just went to the supermarket um for about two years, and my mental health was really starting to slip by the end of it. And I remember just having this moment where I was like, whatever the next opportunity that comes up, I'm just gonna take it because I just need to get on with my life and do something. And just so happened that week the voice emailed me and were like, Hey, we're casting, would you be interested? So I went through all that wreck and roll. They had me singing a completely different song. I think I was doing Landslide by the chicks originally. They were like, We're flying you to Australia next week. Here's your itinerary, let's go, let's do this. So, literally about to like fly to Australia, I get a call from the music director, and they're like, We've actually thought about this, and we've got Keith Urban coming in as a coach and would actually love you to sing her song, Keith. I was like, Why not? But like also, it was like two days before the audition, so there was like no time to overthink it, um, which was the best thing because yeah, that was still one of the scariest things I've ever done. Had no safety net. Um, yeah, and just a really good lesson of like why you should do scary things sometimes because it's also uh been one of the biggest blessings I've ever had, you know?

SPEAKER_00 9:19

Absolutely. What was it like for him to turn around for you?

SPEAKER_03 9:23

Oh, the relief, seriously. Like you're singing a song to the person that you have like the ultimate like respect for. Like for me, what Keith has done in country music from an artist outside of the US is like conquering Everest. Like, he's kind of done the impossible, and so I have so much respect for him. Um, and yeah, it was just like I don't care what happens, I just want Keith to turn around. And I obviously really would have loved to have been on his team as well, but just the way that that show works, they both they were mean, they were mean. I was like, it was one of those moments too where you're like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 9:58

I couldn't believe it. I was like, did they actually just do that?

SPEAKER_03 10:01

It really happened.

SPEAKER_00 10:02

You were you were meant to be with him, and that was really cruel.

SPEAKER_03 10:05

It was very gutting, very gutting. And so yeah, got blocked from his team and um had to make a really quick decision on the spot. And um, yeah, but but yeah, like the beautiful thing is I think that um yeah, that show kind of I mean, that song's kind of gone beyond that TV show, and um, thanks to things like social media, as much as we love to hate them, um, for a moment like that I'm incredibly grateful it existed because there was no gatekeepers, it went straight to the fans and people got to discover it. And it's funny because I I actually had that instinct when I released it. I was like, I feel like this song is bigger than what I can give it. When I released it back in 2019, I was always like, I know this song is bigger than me, and yeah, like I I've only got it.

SPEAKER_00 10:43

Maybe just needed that platform to take it a bit further.

SPEAKER_03 10:46

And so it's funny how that kind of song found its way to people in such a different way. You could have never I could have never scripted that, you know.

SPEAKER_00 10:53

Like Do you do you think back to when they they said to you don't release it, is you know, it's career suicide. Do you think I'm glad I did now?

SPEAKER_03 11:00

And absolutely, but it was such a good lesson of like follow your gut and your instinct. I've always been self-managed, always um run everything myself, and and I rely a lot on my gut instinct, and I hope that encourages other artists that also have that kind of same feeling just to go with it because I think it's the best kind of like lightning rod of like where we should be, you know, going in our lives anyway. And so um, yeah, it was a massive lesson of like just trust yourself.

SPEAKER_00 11:28

Yeah, it was actually my other half that um he said, listen to this, listen to this, and and he put the song on, and I was I was kind of watching and listening at the same time, and but I didn't pay enough attention at the time. I was busy, and I thought, hang on a second, that's a cut of a Keith Urban. That's another one. That another one, another one, another one. I was like, put that back to I need to listen to this again properly. And I was like, wow, that went straight on both our playlists, and absolutely love, love, love, like that song. And for those who haven't heard it, we are gonna play a clip now, and it's it's just brilliant. This is Keith by Kayleigh Bell.

SPEAKER_02 12:03

Summer on the speakers out on the road, little K on the radio. I don't think it's go back, get a waste of time, and a little bit of everything, make a memory of you, get back when we do it. What's in the time? Get out of the thing, okay, thank you when you play back here.

SPEAKER_00 12:33

Did that song change anything for you in terms of like the confidence and how you approach your songs now? And also, you know, like you say follow your gut feeling. If someone says, Oh no, don't, do you think, mm-mm, no? I'm going to.

SPEAKER_03 12:45

Yeah, I think it it really made me realise that the fans get to decide, which is what we've always hoped for. Absolutely. The ones that buy the music, can't they? Absolutely. And I think um, yeah, it's just always reminded me when things in the industry get heavy, as they do at times for all of us, and things don't work out. It's like I just get back to the studio now and I get back to writing because it just gave me that confidence to know that a song can change your life, which is what so many people tell you. But until you have one of those songs, it's very hard to believe that. And um, yeah, I feel like Keith was that song for me, and and so yeah, it it's just get back to the studio, get back to that thing that we love, which is the creating, and hopefully that connection with the fans, you know.

SPEAKER_00 13:28

Yeah, I think it's probably got a fan favourite as well. What's it like playing it live?

SPEAKER_03 13:33

It's so fun, honestly. It's our favourite song to play live. Um, I feel like my career kind of existed before before the voice and after the voice because of that song. And um, yeah, I mean we put a lot of effort into our live show, and the whole set was kind of originally built around that song, and now it's kind of just expanded out into um, yeah. I I really I feel like a lot of responsibility in the live space because I I love what Shania Twain did, and and I think you can um really connect with fans really quickly in the live space, and it's the whole point of why we do this, it's the whole point of why I write my music is so that we can play it live. And so um, yeah, we put a lot of love and effort into that into our live show, and Keith has been a big part of that.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Um yeah. Another song that I want to talk to, and it's a very, very different energy, and that's a ring on it. Um what was what was the starting point for that song, and what you know, what where where did that come from? Tell us about that.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Yeah, so I was actually I lived in New York um for a month. I was doing a residency there, and New York's a whole nother energy, as you know. I'm I'm I'm obsessed, it's like my favorite city in the world, and I was um kind of getting it deafed. I was like, I want to do a songwrite. I don't know any like country writers here, so anyway, I got LinkedIn with these musical theatre um kind of guys, and it was the funniest day. I've never had such a funny day writing music, it was so fun. And we actually had written another song that day, and we were kind of packing up our guitars, and I just had this chorus that kept going around in my head. Um I was like, Can we please write this? Um and I've been with my partner for it would have been eight years at the time, and like he just constantly, everyone's like, where are you gonna put a ring on it? Just that old classic, you know, um thing. So I was like, let's just write something super cheeky. And yeah, they came from like I said, a musical theater background, so they were just like, let's write something to like sassy. And um, yeah, that was another one. I guess I wrote that really quickly. Yeah, we wrote that one in about 40 minutes as well, because it was like I said, we were kind of packing up the guitars and just kind of cruising and jamming, and um yeah, and it was so fun, and that song obviously has changed a lot of people's lives. I think a lot of people sent me that song being like, My fi my fiance finally proposed, um, which is super nice for them and eventually happened for me too. But um, but yeah, that song is just full of sessions and another big part of our live show, it's the song that kicks off the whole live show. Um and yeah, I just I think anytime I can bring a little channel of Shania's energy into our stuff, it's um it's a good day, and that it felt like a felt like a very good New York day the day we wrote that.

SPEAKER_00 16:07

And when you're writing a song like that, do you do you think at the back of your mind how's this gonna sound live, or is that is that a big part of your song like that?

SPEAKER_03 16:17

Absolutely. Yeah, and it's not not for everyone, but for me it really is because like I said, I put so much thought and love and care into the live show that I want these songs to exist in the live space, otherwise it's like they only really get the chance to be on the record, and you know, for me that's like well, you know, so I feel like there's songs that that serves, but I really want to be playing everything I write live, and um, so I've very much come from that sort of angle, and I think the other thing is like I know I keep mentioning Shania, but for me, she was like one of the few females that's played a lot of stadium shows, and for me that's always been the goal. I want to play stadium shows, and so you've got to have the songs that can actually, you know, exist in that space, it's a very specific space. Um and so yeah, I've always tried to write big anthems and um kind of yeah, channel that Mutt Lang kind of vibe, I guess.

SPEAKER_00 17:12

Well, here's a clip, it's called Ring on It and it's by Kayleigh Bell.

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I know you see all of my best sides. At the end of the day, you get to stay that you hide. Yeah, that's right. Everybody knows the crowd stays greater, the longer did it goes back, get it sweeter. Everybody don't stop. I think about it, everybody tell it. The only question is we'll be on it.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

So you've played everything from more intimate intimate gigs to like the bigger stages. Um, what's the difference with how you approach those environments? Do you go into it with the same energy, or do you go, I'm gonna give a different show because it's a smaller crowd and it can be a little bit more intimate, or do you go on and go, like, I'm just gonna blast it?

SPEAKER_03 18:23

Yeah, I think it's definitely case by case. Um when we do our own tours and stuff, it's great because there's a lot more time, so you can kind of have a bit more of a I'd call like um mountaintop moments, and then bring it down and have those acoustic, really intimate moments as well. And um we always have a we've got a beautiful pianist on stage with my tour stuff, so that allows something completely different. But I think yeah, it varies and it depends on the the length of the set and things too, you know. Like um, we recently did a Kane Brown um support, and I think we had 20 minutes or something. Yeah, when blue, so it's just like um I'm just gonna go hard and we're just gonna bring the big socks, you know, and just get everybody amped and up, you know. So I think we really treat it case by case. Obviously, it's always thinking about what that moment is in the show and if we can have that kind of intimate thing. Um but yeah, we just love to have fun on stage too, and my my band's been with me for 10 years now, and um, so yeah, we really try and we try and channel the big energy stuff when the rooms are big.

SPEAKER_00 19:26

Yeah. Do you prefer the big festival energy or the more intimate um environment?

SPEAKER_03 19:33

Ugh festival energy all day. There's something so amazing about festival. There's like a buzz. I can feel it now talking about it. It's like I get the tinglies like in my skin, just hearing that festival noise, you know. Um having the crowd sing your song. Yeah, and it's like you're only gonna be along with you.

SPEAKER_00 19:55

What's that like?

SPEAKER_03 19:56

Exactly. Like that's that is it. Like, that is the best thing in the world. And to hear them singing to other people, like other artists as well, before you and after you, I think there's just like it just reminds us that we're all so similar, and music's like the ultimate equalizer, which I love.

SPEAKER_00 20:11

Well, we get we'll go straight to our national after hours quickfire round. So I'm just gonna shoot a load of questions at you, and it's just the first thing that comes into your head. First question, so favourite line from Keith.

SPEAKER_03 20:27

Oh, I know those days go by. I think it it just always gives me that sense of nostalgia. Favourite line from Ring on It. It's been eight years and that's a long time. I love that line because I said to my fiance, if you make me sing it's been nine years and that's a long time, we've got a problem.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

Well, it's a song that has changed everything for you.

SPEAKER_03 20:51

Definitely, Keith. Um and yeah, I'm just so grateful to the fans for discovering that themselves and making that into what it's become, you know.

SPEAKER_00 21:00

Um, and I know this is changes with every song, but lyrics or melody first, predominantly.

SPEAKER_03 21:06

Um, yeah, melody for me, which I know is not really that common for country. I think most people would say lyrics, but to me the melody is the thing that grabs me first, and I think because I grew up listening to a lot of radio, just like pop radio, it's the thing that I I really do lean into first.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

A song that you wish you had written.

SPEAKER_03 21:25

A song I had real Oh my gosh. Um, I mean two come to mind The House That Built Me and Umnie Ray, I Can't Make You Love Me.

SPEAKER_00 21:35

Both good songs. Um we've cut we've covered this already. I was gonna say big stage or small rim.

SPEAKER_03 21:42

You know the answer to that. I do. The biggest of stages. Think big and then think bigger. That's funny.

SPEAKER_00 21:52

Pre show nerves or adrenaline rush?

SPEAKER_03 21:56

Oh, quite a combination, actually, but more probably like.

SPEAKER_00 22:03

One song you always look forward to playing live. I think I know the answer to this as well.

SPEAKER_03 22:07

Um, actually a song called Boots and All. And we've tried this this was a big song on radio in New Zealand as well, like on mainstream. And so people come ready to sing, and they have this, we have this thing in the crowd where they take their boots off for the last chorus, and like we do this line dance, and it's just super fun and interactive, and yeah, we look forward to that one every night.

SPEAKER_00 22:26

Awesome. Um, favorite place you've performed?

SPEAKER_03 22:33

Um, well, my favorite probably show of all time was we got to support Ed Sharon on his uh mathematics tour, and I've just never been on a stage like that. It was the 360, and it was so cool to like just not have a back of a stage. Um, and he was like so generous. He was like, You you do what you want, you go where you want, and so we were all just like running around this like stage. It was the most fun I've ever had on a tour, just that whole tour in general was amazing.

SPEAKER_00 23:02

Um, one place you would still want to play.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Uh I still have the Granal Opry is still like my, you know. And also in terms of a festival would be Glastonbury.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Um a travel essential that you can't live without.

SPEAKER_03 23:21

Um I have quite a few of these. Um lately it's been like a um two things, a hairdryer and a um it's like a travel iron, because the amount of places I've been lately that haven't had either, oddly. Um, and it's always on our rider, but it's never always there. So it like gives me so much anxiety that I just have to take it with me every time.

SPEAKER_00 23:42

Uh-huh. Just in case. Just in case coffee or cocktails?

SPEAKER_03 23:47

Coffee all day. Just the smell in the morning is enough to make me excited.

SPEAKER_00 23:53

Late nights or early mornings?

SPEAKER_03 23:55

Uh, definitely late night. Yeah, that's a I think that's a music thing that's very much yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:01

One thing that keeps you grounded.

SPEAKER_03 24:04

Uh family, definitely family. I have an amazing family who, yeah, aren't afraid to tell me what they think.

SPEAKER_00 24:11

Oh, Brutal. Uh dream collaboration.

SPEAKER_03 24:17

Uh Shania. Or Keith.

unknown 24:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:21

Either. Or both.

SPEAKER_03 24:22

Together. Or both together.

unknown 24:23

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 24:24

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 24:25

Uh one goal that you have for the next year.

SPEAKER_03 24:28

Um, I really would love to get on the Gran Alopery in the next sort of 12 to 18 months. I think I've been waiting for that moment my whole life. So yeah, that would be amazing to see that happening.

SPEAKER_00 24:37

I think it's just a a matter of time.

SPEAKER_03 24:39

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

Um, and one word that describes your career right now.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Um, I think rising would be a nice word. Um, I always like to look ahead and I always challenge myself to be better and to think about the next thing. So I'm gonna say rising.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Um, and so what's next for you now? You still writing? Have you got any more like recording, touring, all of the above that you've got on your all?

SPEAKER_03 25:06

Uh yeah. New singles this year, record next year. Um, a lot of touring coming up in Australia, UK, um, out with the Shires later in the year who are amazing.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

It's November, I believe, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 25:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

I think we're hoping to catch that as well. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

Oh, yeah. Beautiful. Yeah, so lots of touring this year and um and into next year, a big record and a big year, I think.

SPEAKER_00 25:27

Yeah. Okay. Perfect, perfect. It feels like you're building something that I can only see getting bigger. Thank you. Um, and I do think the opera is just a matter of time, 100%. Um you've got a fantastic voice, a brilliant songwriting style, and it's just such a pleasure to chat to you and have you on the show because your your music, I love your music. I really, really do.

SPEAKER_03 25:49

Tina, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 25:54

Thank you so much for joining us on National After Hours. Um, so from from Keith to Ring on It, it's just been amazing hearing all the stories behind your songs.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

Thank you. It's um it's always fun to know the journey to why we get to eventually, right?

SPEAKER_00 26:08

Well, it's lovely, especially this especially Keith. I was that was the one I was really particularly interested in hearing about because I was I wondered, did you write that specifically to go on to the voice? It's nice to hear that that was it was just done yes in advance.

SPEAKER_03 26:22

Very much years before 20 20 2017, 18, I think is when that voice memo was on my phone, and 2019 we finally released it, and then like I said, nothing really happened for a few years. I wasn't on the voice till 2022, so it's had a long life.

SPEAKER_00 26:37

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

But I love hearing like you said, I love I think Chapel Roan's Pig Pony Club was like that too. Like she released it and then released it again, and and it's nice. I think songs find their way eventually where they meant to go.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

Sometimes it's just a moment, and that's what it needed the right time and the right place. Yeah, and it changes everything.

SPEAKER_03 26:54

Yeah, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 26:55

So thank you. Thank you so much for joining us. And everyone, just check out Kaylee's music. You can catch her live, hopefully, in November here in the UK. Um, and stay tuned for what's coming next. That's it for National After Hours. I'm Tina Tennessee, and remember, keep it country.

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Thank you. You'll hear a steel guitar crying soft in the dark, a tale of broken hearts and a faded spark. Voices echo low like a whisper prayer. Truth and life tangle in the midnight air. National after hours where the music don't sleep. Stories one deep and the secrets weak. It's like a love and national after hours.