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Exclusive Interview with Karen Waldrup
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Jun 10, 2025
Karen Waldrup talks about being on The Voice, her path in country music, new music and more.
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hey guys it's Gail with Everything Nash
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here with the amazing Karen Waldrip so
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good to see you too i got the blue going
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on with pockets i need everybody to see
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that I have pockets that's important to
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know but that's not what we're going to
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talk about we're going to talk about you
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um let's start with The Voice because
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you have been releasing music before i
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knew of you from years ago and then you
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went on The Voice talk about that
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experience oh my gosh The Voice was a
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whirlwind it was amazing i'm sure you've
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talked to other artists that have gotten
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the experience it was such a great
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experience like I learned so much you
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know and that's the biggest thing it's
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like when you go do something like that
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you're walking into it completely like
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clueless of what's going to go on or how
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things are going to go down or what
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songs you're going to sing or what
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you're going to wear you have no idea so
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it also taught me flexibility you know
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I've I've already been flexible because
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we tour a lot you know being on the
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highway you got to be flexible but the
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boys really helped be really flexible
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because you just had to roll with the
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punches you know you got your schedule
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that morning it was pretty wild you know
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you just kind of had to roll with it um
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but just a great experience and it just
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expanded my my already existing fan base
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and made it even bigger and just it was
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it's just been really good how were you
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with the experience i have talked to a
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few other Voice um winners and
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contestants you are like gone like
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you're in a hotel you're gone for weeks
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how were you with that i actually
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personally did well with it um but I can
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see why maybe other people wouldn't do
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well with it but the reason why I liked
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it so much is because we're used to
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being out on the highway with the pool
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trailer loading in playing different
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clubs every night playing staying in
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different cities every night trying to
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keep up with what time zone we're in so
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for me it was a big huge relief to be in
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the same room where I could line up my
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garments and put my makeup out and and
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just be still and uh and they gave us a
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curfew and everybody else was like "I
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hate this." I'm like "This is awesome."
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Yes you know because on the road you
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know we might be out until midnight or
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one o'clock in the morning so to have to
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be in your room by 10:00 okay sign me up
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you know I would like that curfew but
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let's go you know I was in bed early it
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was just fabulous doing my skin care was
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it was a great experience maybe I should
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go no I'm not going it was great before
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we get to your music we do have to talk
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about your coaches on the Voice Dan and
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Shay i mean not nice humans at all i
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know right they're the best aren't they
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just the best great they are the best
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they were so good to me they gave me a
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ton of time a ton of counsel a ton of um
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advice and the biggest thing I learned
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from Shay Shay if you're watching is his
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timing you know his musical timing is
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impeccable and I'm like is he listening
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to a metronome all the time like how is
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he so
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on and it was just really impressive and
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I didn't really realize that until I
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sang with him before that I was just
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listening to his stuff or their stuff
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and his voice and and then when I was
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singing with him I kind of heard my
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vocal being a little looser and so it it
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taught me like you need to you know so
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now when I get on stage I pay more
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attention to my timing you know and
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that's such a small thing but I think it
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does go back to listening to a metronome
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and somebody just shared something
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recently that I'm going to start doing
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you can pull all the songs into an app
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here we go dorky music conversation you
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can pull them into an app now and put
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the metronome in the app so as you're
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listening to your music and the you
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getting ready or doing your hair instead
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of hearing just the song you're hearing
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the
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interesting so think that'll help too
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okay but we're always trying to learn
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you know every every day thank you Shay
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um let's talk about blue cowboy boots
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yeah give me the story behind it come on
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i got them on right now he does um Blue
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Cowboy Boots is this really fun light
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feelgood kicking song you know and we
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wanted a a summer kickoff song you know
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we wanted a song that really fired
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people up whether they're out on the
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boat in the sunshine or whether they're
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having family over if they're driving
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around in their Mustang so blue cowboy
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boots the blue boot
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represents freedom and and being an
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individual and um escaping the problem
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because you're not blue anymore because
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you're wearing the blue cowboy boots so
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the blue cowboy boot is meant to like
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represent having fun and and saying "No
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you're not going to treat me like that
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i'm gonna go uh dance in these boots and
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have a great time." Yes so that's really
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all it is people like "Can you tell me
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about it?" I'm like well it doesn't take
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long it's a song about boots and about
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having fun and about being free and
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being expressive and um me as a musician
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I had a pair of blue cowboy boots i wore
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them all over and I noticed that out of
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everything I've ever owned I got more
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compliments on the blue cowboy boot of
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anything I've ever owned so I'm like
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there's probably something special about
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these boots so then my coowriter and I
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Ed Hill wrote Blue Cowboy Boots uh he's
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incredible he's had so many hits a few a
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few so he's a mentor to me um a
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coowriter with me and also he came up in
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the honky tonk world i came up in the
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honky tonk world so we had a lot of
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words that we were able to pull and to
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describe the feeling of dancing on a
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dance floor and you know a tall drink of
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water might take a shine in me i mean
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you got to play honky tonks to get those
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lyrics right and this is on an upcoming
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album yes so these days well at least
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for me um we release Louisiana Hurricane
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then we release Fix It then we release
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Blue Cowboy Boots so once we do Six or
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eight then we will put it into a record
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so we're we're slowly releasing the
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record we heard it here so when you were
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on The Voice when you got off you were
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top five yes were you good with that i
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was disappointed okay um I wanted to win
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i'm not going to lie i went out to the
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show with a motto and it was no option
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because I had already been out on the
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road i had already toured i already
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played clubs so I really didn't have an
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option but to bring 100% so I brought
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100% to the workouts to the rehearsals
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to wardrobe to every possible thing I
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could do I brought 100% um and every
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morning I listened to a song by Kevin
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Gates called No Option and it just
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brainwashed myself to convince myself
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that I wasn't going to get distracted by
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somebody inviting me to the beach or
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going to Disney like I was there to get
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into the finale and that was my goal
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when we got out on the stage and they
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said I was fifth I was very disappointed
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i felt like um that was like I was like
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man you know I I was at least wanting
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like third or second um but I was very
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excited and happy for Asher his voice is
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out of this world and he deserves every
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ounce of success awesome well we're
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going to talk more when your album comes
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out because I am now invested in your
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career oh thank you yay karen well
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