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Sister Lena Mae Perry says music is like medicine. She would know. At 80-years-old, Sister Perry has helmed the Branchettes, a celebrated gospel group from Johnston County, North Carolina, for decades. To see her perform is to witness the healing powers of music, and, at risk of cliché, to be taken to church. Indie musician Phil Cook knows that better than anyone, and has joined up with Sister Perry for a new, and unlikely, artist pairing. 

way My name is Lena May Perry A lot of people call me May Then he called me sister Pair it and they called me Mother Perry So I asked all those names so we didn't hear now in the lower part of Johnson County at the little church to that joint years and years ago And we just love coming here And this place was my life I joined it because my grandmother and my arm was here up the road Look further up is the church my mom and daddy belong to And I thought down here would be our like to be so I don't hear And Mom and Dad didn't have any objections to it  You know little long we were in church We had we had to go to church It won't No I can't I don't feel like you had come to church way Jesus Way way The first night we performed a do gardens We were there and we had rehearsed a few songs to gather that I knew we were going to do  But as happens with Sister Perry um we she'll get into ah in front of people and and she says this sense And so the Lord will speak to her and will say uh tell her what song and he's actually happen next So that meant a song came up that we hadn't rehearsed So I just sat down and just let her and Wilbur play And it was a song called God Will Take Care of You which is a great old standard in new gardens The lawn is there and so people are sitting on everyone sitting on the grass and they're all on blankets  As far back is the is the hedges And you know I like to sit there and look out at people um and look at people's faces as they're receiving music and they're receiving energy and everything that's happening I said I really enjoy watching that Especially when um that the chance happens where you can see the unification that everyone goes through All of a sudden you see something happen that everyone responds to exactly at the same time that I really enjoy seeing that And so as I sat there and uh and she's saying the 1st 1st and I saw the entire 1st 40 yards of people burst into tears at the same time At the same time I looked at everyone Everyone started crying at the same time When she's saying I mean I did to you what I mean But I saw it So I mean but I saw that was the first thing I mean that's the At the first show he performed within the first couple songs I saw the work I saw Um I saw like the sauce surrender I think the surrender like she surrenders and that's why she does her She goes to her place and she surrenders and she she's open and she passes it on And then you see everyone else when they surrender That's That's the rial That's the real uh you know it didn't take me long to scope out People learn people and know what they're all about and that there's something inside of me that will let you know Let me know that this is perfect This is right for you You need I was needing to get out and meet new people and feel was so like he at all  You have known me for a long time and uh we're just about bond It right together Uh I would sing and he was saying with me And I think that day we were there You will be Demery I try uh was needed Tam Marine And uh I'm gonna tell you what's the truth now Those people really did launch on us Ria whale It was real red I didn't try to do anything that was used to doing and it just blended And ever since Zan field being in my car I know his core That's right No he told me that these I know he's brought me I don't I don't way no mercy There's so much that music brings Took people There's so much that would lift heavy burdens Music is a healing process I don't have you down in adults I don't know what happened yesterday What you think my happen tomorrow How it turned out  But there's a comfort It's like you taking medication and there's a feeling right  They're dead Lets you know everything is all right Things all right I love everybody as I told you out there I mean it Everybody is here I love you Because if I don't love you all of the singing all of these churches I go to nursing homes hospitals cruises and the schools  Yes And the church Yes And I didn't live all these years of my living being I can't make Helen if I love you and I go is to reach him I could see in the heavily time I remember Where would you go That system may loves everyone of you and that's from the bottom of my heart Uh thanks So you oh sure is that she No make a truck

Behind the Scenes: The musical collaboration of Sister Lena Mae Perry of the Branchettes & Phil Cook

A handful of songs about North Carolina can rightfully be described as iconic. You can probably name a few, like James Taylor's "Going to Carolina" or Petey Pablo's "Raise Up." These are the songs that compel folks to embrace or dance with the nearest person who is also bursting with state pride. It's fair to say that in 2017, G Yamazawa's "North Cack" ascended to the pantheon of North Carolina anthems.

everybody say Yeah this is food A PSA from Vietnam the Vietnam in Above and beyond Toloza and Chicago's Who role in Toyota Corolla provoking How do kids with foes and Levi's art is a tossup of so many things I don't always want Oh I received a message from the art that I digest Sometimes I just want to feel angry Or sometimes I just want to feel joyful where I just want to grieve Or it's just a moment where I want to be cocky and I need to develop a sense of self and a sense of work I'm gonna be a Durham legend just like Nina Free line What I love about hip hop is that generally there's like this mom Nissen hater you know anonymous hater in the world that's holding you down in many ways is the systems many systems of oppression and it often can be yourself And it's element of self doubts It always comes back down to the self To me I guess when I think about as an Asian American and and what I want to contribute to hip hop can be a gimmick and it can't be a product It's got to be truthful I feel the same things like say my name right body say everybody says everybody way are at my parents Japanese restaurant Call Yama Sushi My parents came over from Japan and about 79 My childhood and Durham was I think equal parts standard and unique I'm definitely part of the time I grew up in so you know Eminem and Dr Dre and 50 Cent and also little brother Luckily someone put me on a little brother when I was like 12 and so that was a major influence in my life So first it was just all right And I just wanted to be the first Asian rapper the greatest Asian rapper and ultimately just the greatest you know all emcees They just have the competitive spirit So when I was in eighth grade well there were  Home is around the neighborhood who were amazing at racket  Amazing and we would just kick it and we've freestyle  And in eighth grade also my woman best friends have passed away and that was the first time where it became more than just wrapping the fact that I could write about something and have a dialogue with myself about grief at a young age and also be able to process it beautifully That's where like wrap writing and poetry began to sort of form as an actual foundations for like My mental health Yeah lickety split in the camp while I express my exquisite nous multiply to get the dividends I never finished college but I'm about to perform at Princeton and Old Dominion Rapids to begin rap about the actual state of mind that you live in it and have the passion for finish It transformed into poetry when I was about 17 years old when I went to my first National Youth Poetry Competition and festival and then I ended up competing on the Bull City Slam team when I was 18 Under the tutelage of Dishonor Hannu in the Haitai Center  Yeah definitely born and bred out of the grassroots poetry move may in North Carolina Endurance visit I really need a Friday to really see growth while you're working on your flow I'll be working on my aunt lives full sitting Our cat was 15 in the Lat Wasco chain In a way like to say writing is like 90% thinking you really carry the heart of a poet anytime of the day You're kind of constantly thinking about the next piece or the piece of hand When I decided I was gonna write a poem about my grandma anything I ever saw throughout the day with Ty and to could this time to this poem could this time to this poem what this bamboo mean to me And how does it relate to my grandmother What This tablecloth meaning me and my grandmother The poetry for me was a lot about Asian identity  I'm a product of public education year but I learned the basics for my parents Japan English Everybody got a story Dude he's got a claim it  So I learned how to spit it in my mother's native language In my car on the home go this shot video then non stop It was a lot about me finally appreciating and honoring my Japanese heritage in my family You know my parents were just so open with their culture with their food and with a sense of service in a sense of dignity of sharing a part of yourself with people and then when they got to wrap and it got to the album It was like All right this is when I start to honor where I'm from Makes if you know the words I need some help a lot of property sauce with the smooth seller and a fall on the best defend and the cars on the lies the North can There's a lineage of hip hop that comes out of North Carolina that I have to acknowledge and it has to be present in me It was less about saying Look where I'm from and this is all about where I'm from It was just Savaglio This is me and I don't really care about anything else And I just missed barbecue and I miss putting slaw on it I wanted to just show you know the heart of a sudden person So many beautiful beautiful people in the South and Southern hospitality is a real thing in North Carolina is always just just filled with heart Yarmuth Lucy That's also define a stocking I promise You know what problems will be nothing to handle You should know from time It means there's nothing I can do This is GM a ZAWA in North Carolina Is music the best The effect in the cause On the Western North Jab every I'm a South Carolina barbecue sauce with snow on the seller and a phone on the best deal stared into cars on this guy Yes so much out makes a noise when you got Saleh Chicory

Artist Profile: G Yamazawa

Come Hear NC: G Yamazawa artist profile

Mary Lattimore, a harpist from Asheville and Shelby, N.C. who performed at the Happy Valley Chapel of Rest in Lenoir, N.C., performs for Come Hear NC's "In the Water" series.

North Carolina is always a place that had come back to my family has a lot of pretty quiet properties so and poke full You know it's a very rural quiet area and then we have a few cabins up in the actual area and those places air both very very solitary and quiet too If you go out there there's you can see a lot of stars and a lot of ah wildlife and so I feel like I carry that around I love living in big cities but there is also part of me that likes to be really quiet and that comes from being around those kind of environments growing up Hi I'm Mary Lattimore I have a heart best I'm originally from Asheville North Carolina but my family now lives in Hopeful which is in Cleveland County The first song a minute play is called It feels like floating I wrote this song sort of based on the feeling of swimming in the ocean so I wanted the sounds to be kind of enveloping kind of like how it feels to be floating in the ocean So thank you E I really like to swim a lot I go swimming a lot when I'm on tour to get the hotels with the pools and I've spent a lot of time near water I live in California now but I grew up going with my family Teoh Atlantic Beach down there I'm Coastal North Carolina and you know my sister and mom and I grandmother would go swimming in the ocean  It's always really wonderful Yeah I think the heart offers a lot of sort of watery sounds and I like I like the thought of being able to create sort of immersive kind of loops where it's just sort of the soundest kind of swimming around you I just love the idea of the heart kind of sounding watery way way way My mom is a harpist in So I grew up around harps and she had a lot of She has a lot of friends who are harpist and said she also um has a harp ensemble the Blue Ridge Harp Ensemble And so I grew up hearing the harp a lot Um and her practicing a lot so that's kind of my earliest memories is like of her playing the heart and then I started when I was 11 after taking some piano lessons started with a friend of hers and just continued on I went on to play in high school I got more serious about it And then I went to a music conservatory in Rochester New York um the Eastman School Music And at that during that time I also studied abroad  I went Teoh Italy and I went to Austria and studied with harpist They're just got kind of deeper into the classical music studies But then I moved to Philadelphia and I started to play more with bands So right parts Um for people's records like mostly rock bands and just sort of try to incorporate the sound of the heart into that kind of music And then I started doing more experimental more like improvisatory playing after I after I sort of solidified the part writing just I like toe make progress and to toe learn keep learning and like keep trying out new things  So there's a lot of potential in this instrument that hasn't been tapped into a zoo widely so I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next to way the way the next time I'm in a place called Otis walks into the woods and it's a song about our black lab who passed away He was blind and my family lives on this farm outside of uh Shelby North Carolina and put full North Carolina And he just walked out into the woods one day to pass away which was kind of his way of separating himself from the pack So I decided to write this song sort of as a tribute to him because he was a very sweet and no bowl way way way I guess the first time I played with the band it was with the arcade Fire Um and this was after their record um called funeral and they were on tour and I met them when I was in Missouri and I want to see them play And it turns out that they had a harp on their record which was actually to the members their mom plays the harp in So she had played on the record And so um I was moving to Philly pretty soon after I saw them and they said that they were playing in Philly and they asked me if I wanted to play the parts that were on the record live and I had never played before in front of people  I played nonclassical music that wasn't already written down in front of people And so I just said yes because I thought it would be really fun But I was also really nervous about it Um and so once I did that and it was a sold out show and it was you know people were crazy about them and it was a really warm kind of initiation in tow playing music that wasn't written down and wasn't classical music So I just decided that that's what I wanted to start to do with other bands in Philly A had a lot of musician friends and so they were all Really a lot of people are really open to incorporating heart into that I definitely feel like the heart doesn't it can't be replicated with any other instrument You know the sound of this the heartstrings It's just so warm and so kind of round and it doesn't sound like anything else And there's also like the glow Sandro Um aspect which is like um it's this kind of sound that you can't really It's kind of the definitive harp sounds So a lot of a lot of people like to use that to on recordings But yeah it's just definitely something that can't be imitated by any other instrument I think uh good The last time in a play is called for Scott Kelly returned to Earth and it's a song that I wrote for the astronaut Scott Kelly who spent the most consecutive days in space up there I think it was almost a year or a little over a year and he had this INSTAGRAM account where he would sort of post beautiful photos of the Earth from up above and just kind of musings about how it felt to be so far away from society and from the people on earth But you know he was up there thinking about the news and things that were going on down below So I thought that was really beautiful and at the same time I had had an accident where I broke my jaw and I had to have my jaw wired shut for two months and it was very excruciating It was horrible cause I couldn't talk at all and it's really frustrating cause I'm a pretty social person And so being away from socializing like that was pretty hard but I sort of felt akin to him being up in space And so him coming back down to Earth and me getting my job unwired kind of happening at the same time So I wrote him this song and I sent it off the NASA and they were back And they said that he really liked it Way way way Yeah yeah Way way way way way No no

In the Water: Mary Lattimore

Vanessa Ferguson, a performer from Greensboro, N.C. who gained national fame and fans as a finalist on NBC's "The Voice" in season 12, performs in Nina Simone's childhood home in Tryon, N.C.

Ah uh my name is Vanessa Ferguson a singer out of Brings World North Carolina International performing Artists Some people may know me from Season 12 of NBC's The Voice and today I'm here to perform at Nina Simone's house for me to walk through her home today to see where she was born where she lived It's hard to describe the feeling honestly this is someone that I've studied someone I've admired for a very long time because of her her talent and her her activism  This is a very small town for her to dive into music I think that they said she she rehearsed for eight hours a day I can kind of understand it being here but to see where she lived and to see where she went  You know all the different things she was able to do and just being born right here in such a small place where I guess you could say no once really checking for you that's pretty tremendous It resonates with me and you know that you can come from two bedroom or one bedroom house and go on to do some amazing things so it's really inspiring to be here I loves you Don't take me Let him handle me Drug You can keep me I wants to stay with you Oh little take me Don't let him handle me with this If you can keep me I wants to stay with you someday I know he's come to call me He's gon handle me and told me so It's going to be like when he calls me What When he comes No I'll have to go I loves you No me Let him handle me and drive me My If you can keep me I want to stay You Will Garrity Yes I love you Punky So let's take me Let him handle me and drive me if you keep me uh wants to stay way Nina Simone to me is um Hum Besides being the face of a strong black gifted and talented uh performing artist she's she was an activist Um she was someone who you know she wants to uh defined freedom What was freedom to her and freedom to her was no fear And to me I don't know how she saw herself but to me she was a very fearless woman And So you know it means a lot to me  Nina Simone believed in that you should uh sort of use your art to say something or reflect the times  I think it's important to use art to connect people to history because I mean mostly everybody has an appreciation for some form of art And ah Nina Simone was one of those people that would um use her her platform in her art to sort of cause people to think provoked Thought Ah she would talk about the things that were going on right And so it's It's sort of a good segue way to get people to pay attention just certain things or to learn certain things or to think about certain things Eso I definitely demon you know very important to sort of merge the two to create some change birds flying high You know how for you sun in the sky in Ohio feel breeze drifting on by you know how I feel It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life for me Yes and new dorms and new day It's a new life on be woo and I'm feeling  fish in the sea you know river running free It's a new way dragon fly out in the sun You know what I mean Don't know Butterflies are having fun You know what I mean Sleep in peace with day is done That's I mean world Well way It's a new way and he way Uh wait I was born in Brooklyn New York but I lived in Greens world for over 20 years Now this is where I basically cut my teeth The community here in North Carolina specifically um is one  That's just I mean you know it's I don't know it's my family Um and uh you know when you when you sort of been through the hardest of hard times and the trenches with people you sort of creative bond and you know a bond that that can't can't be broken But I appreciate everything that I've learned on my journey here um in Greens world And it's definitely what has um prepared me for everything else that that I've been able to do My skin is black My hair Is Willie back strong Strong enough to take the pain inflicted kid again What do they call me by my name ain't Sarah  Skin is yellow My long between Thio Thio my father and what they my knee My skin is my daddy Like I who's little I got some money Money better Look my skin is brown A man eyes tough way My name isn t Peaches for me singing It's like my peace of mind where I'm the happiest I don't know It's a feeling that I can't really describe I guess it's Yeah it's hard to describe that feeling  Um it's definitely one that I can't really get enough off that feeling off singing and it doesn't have to be on a stage or anything Um but this is something that I believe God has given me to not only help others but myself um you know to get through to experience some joy You know I feel like music is one of those things that comes directly from heaven And um it's it's sort of a little piece that we can get while we're we're all down here Way way That should soothe way way Give a long way way the way way Wow ways way sing Sing No sing Now sing Sing now Seen Because I know Sing now sing

In the Water: Vanessa Ferguson

Brooke Simpson, a Haliwa-Saponi vocalist, songwriter, and finalist on NBC's hit talent-competition show "The Voice," takes part in Come Hear North Carolina's series "In the Water."


I think there I don't know The reason why we picked the done center for this amazing opportunity is because actually my first show that I had here it was actually last year and it was wrong you know they were a group and they had 1/3 member Um that you know isn't in the marriage No swingers here but um another member who actually left the group and then after that they were like Okay well broke Come up and sing with us a couple times It's cute And then all the same my mom was like Where's that third part Harmony coming from And it turned out I had just been listening to Catherine the former member like so closely into the part she was singing that it just came naturally to me So when I was seven I started traveling full time as a member of the Mills family You know Not I mean I already was in the middle family but as the band the meals family you know So yeah I just grew up whether we were in the back of a van and I'm sitting on top of the equipment or were in the bus and I'm in my bunk and playing Nintendo and eat Mac and cheese Or if we were in the RV and I'm laying down with my brother and sister trying to wake him up and annoy them Um it was just always the best experience And even when I was tired or anything it was always something I wanted to do And I think even then without me knowing it subconsciously I knew that it's what I wanted to do for the rest of my life Which is why even when I was hired it was worth it It was happy Theo when she was old enough to talk We lived in a single wide mobile home and to her bed Web Room wasn't too far from ours and she would wake up in the middle of the night and just stand up in her crib and just talk I'll come in and I'll say a name and she would repeat me perfectly And so we decided to go in the studio when she was about two years old and we put her in that little box and the engineer was amazed that she didn't sound like your typical little kid that totally all over the place but was still cute She was actually on key And so we knew then she was born to do something greater than I could even imagine I'm not going watching time Go by watching the clogs around watching the days held down I'm not going there here dreaming further day thinking of all the ways reasons why I should stay because I've been law Who Huh Honus yesterday when it's not perfect places you know when But dont ISS day Don't you just sit there watching the tithe wishing that things will turn around watching dreams into the ground that every waas hold me But no one is really a row wear all searching for something sick of returning with three Perfect yesterday I learned all these people places to say no when But it isn I'm not running not runnin from tomorrow from tomorrow tomorrow Now run in now Run in from tomorrow towards symbolic towards puts Oh who needs yesterday the same way Uh don't being on the voice was one of the greatest experiences of my life Um you know I actually auditioned for the boys four years prior to when I got the call to come and try again Made it through the cattle call After that for the second call back I didn't get a call back so I was like Yeah it's okay whatever wasn't meant to be And then four years later I'm in Florida and you know me and my husband were just kind of praying for an opportunity or some kind of door to open because we knew that we wanted more than just where we were at the time But we felt stuck in every sense of the word and randomly One day I got a call Hey this is they even used my made a name  They said Hey we're looking for Bruck Mills Ah we saw that you tried out four years ago in Atlanta Do you want to just try again I mean no promises but do you want to try so like sure So I did And then it ended up leading me toe making it to the top three on the entire show So I mean it was an incredible experience I learned so much about myself as an artist as a human as a woman and I made some of the greatest friends I'll ever have in my life 10 months up I know you said over what you did was So who's is girl What's her name But she like Is she cooled Wound up tight where she lived Be surprised if some just a little bit crazy just a little bit Just a little Just a little bit crazy Just a little bit Just dependent down Just a little bit crazy baby Just just just just a little bit crazy Hit show to her place It's because I saw your there on an instant story in the gauges on and messy hair on the fake Accounted Made just to stare at ship picks on 3 a.m. in case of mystic double some just a little bit crazy Just a little bit Just a little bit Grady Just just depends just a little bit crazy How Just a little just just imagine it I'm just a little bit crazy I'm not Don't tell me Oh don't tell me Oh not even don't help me My mom breaks down to right on time because I have completely lost my you just a little bit just a little I always felt I don't want it to sound any type of way But I always felt special being Native American you know what I mean Like I felt like it was something like if my voice went away or if my personality sucks or if I grew up and I won't Cute That's something that's so cool You know what I mean to say I'm freakin full blooded Native American like Who can say that I mean everyone says you know like Oh yeah my great great grandmother's Cherokee But like No I'm Holly wasa pony bra like That's a big deal That's crazy So I've always taken so much pride in my culture  But when I was younger I didn't dive into it  Like now that I'm older and look back I wish I did like my little sister When she was old enough in eligible she ran for Princess of our tribe which was so cool and looking back I'm like man I should have done that I should have ran for Princess or I should have taken more beating classes or been more consistent in going to the culture classes where they teach you how to do the dances or teach you how to sing in the drum groups or how to play the drums and stuff like that And how sick would it have been if I was like one of the Onley lady drummers Because there's not a lot of ladies who played drums in the drum groups is normally like a dude's thing Um and when I look back I'm like Man I wish I did ABC indeed But instead of letting that be something that hinders me or makes me feel like I can be proud of my culture now I decide we'll know instead of that I'm gonna pick up the mantle now and run with it You know what I mean In ways that I didn't think to when I was young Faith Song I wrote that song years ago I remember when I got the call that faith it passed away and I was in college I was staying up late with my roommate and we were sitting on my bed in my room talking and then all the sudden I get a text message from a mom and saying Hey Faith Hedgepeth passed away You know I know you're probably sleep Give me a call in the morning So I called her and then she told me you know the little bit of information that we had been And I mean I just couldn't stop crying And the thing is me and faith we were never like best friends or like you know attached at the hip But she was someone that made such a huge impact on our community I mean everyone knew faith Everyone loved faith Whether you were best buds and you hung out every day or you just saw her at the power or saw her down adjourn against convenience store I mean you love her She's a beautiful girl Had a beautiful light a beautiful spirit about her Um and so warm So her that happening It literally was a huge a blow to the heart  To our community You know what I mean Um I mean she had a huge impact and you felt it when that news came out So it was a couple of weeks that it passed by before I started to write that song but I just I knew um that I needed to get out in some way like all of the things the mixed feelings and terrible emotions that I was feeling So I wrote this song um to you know just ah a piano melody that I had and I sent it to my mom and I was like I don't know when but I want to perform this someday So you know fast for two later when the boys happens I was asked to sing in our Pau the whole lost money Pau and I knew that even though it wasn't a song that people knew it wasn't something that they could purchase or anything And I wasn't gonna go to the studio anytime soon  I just knew that I wanted to do that to for my community and dedicated to them and dedicated to her in her memory So I performed it then and this is actually the second time I'm ever performing it So it's super special And um it was just supposed to be um obviously in the maybe like a Band Aid to help the wound you know because it may not fix everything but it'll help So just something to bring us back together Way way way the city weighs 4000 crying Wait way be City 4000 wait So city Oh Theo singing with my daughter and all of my Children at different stages of their age When Brooke was a little girl thin all the Children ran up to the front of the church couldn't wait to see Brooke Then she was a teenager Then we would have youth conferences and Brooke what saying those type of songs and and then other two Children as well so as a mom just seeing God take the gifts that he entrusted me and her dad with and multiply them That's our prayer I mean because the domino effect could go either way because alcoholism runs in both sides of my family my family and her dad's family So really bad could happen or really good can happen  So to see her to pick up a microphone two years old and to sing and um and then to watch her unfold her gifts unfold and I've always been on alto But to listen to her take her range like to optimise hired and what I can do and and I really sit sometime And she didn't even know this But I'll re watch the videos and I'll just sit and I'll just say Lord look at your awesomeness how you can just take what we've had and what we instilled and just increase it so much And to know that this is just I'm honored that I was chosen to be her mom and I'm honored to be just a small fraction of what she's taken and taken it to a whole new level Now I'm anxious toe learn from her always asking questions  How did warm up my vocals And I want to learn from her how to write She is such a phenomenal writer and she can write something in a few minutes and I'm like Where did that come from And I'm so it's incredible honored and I'm just so thankful that God allowed me in this time in my life to experience it Yeah I would say like it's it's so cool to kind of like see the contrast of then and now you know because like now when we get together like when we were going over the song that we're going to do today together Um I was thinking back to like back in the day when because the high park came easy to me  But then it was like she was trying to teach me the low part And I remember we were in the car like driving somewhere in Rocky Mount and big Girls don't cry by Fergie was on and I was like I hope you know like I was trying to learn the low part and I kept getting frustrated and her trying to help me Even though she doesn't know the lyrics to this song I remember being in the van and she's just trying to show me the low part you know And then now um like of course like every day her and my dad there are always gonna be teaching me different musical things because they've been doing it their entire life But now it's like I'll hear harmony things that maybe they don't and then like it's you know what I mean That I mean and then also like I mean she she talks about me being a great writer They her and my dad both have written songs before in their great writers But like so from then me learning from then from them toe like now Me trying to show them some of things I do When I write and stuff like that it's just really cool even Right So from from me No way But the eyes they only looked to lose weight me from No Where does it used to be Oh you take uh free Took each value taking a deejay

In the Water: Brooke Simpson

Jim Lauderdale plays a set at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh for the Music at the Mansion series, an ongoing program of Come Hear North Carolina hosted by Governor Roy Cooper and First Lady Kristin Cooper. He was accompanied by the Asheville, N.C. based band Fireside Collective and Zebulon Bowles.

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Music at the Mansion: Jim Lauderdale with Fireside Collective and Zebulon Bowles

Mandolin Orange plays a special set at the North Carolina Executive Mansion in Raleigh to help usher in a partnership between Come Hear North Carolina and the Americana Music Association. 

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