He's solid and he's steady like the elegant he runs

He knows just where he's going and he's proud of where he's from

One of the good ones

Welcome to the New York Times podcast, you're

Is it me or the lifestyle of music news and criticism?

I'm your host, John Karamonka

A little bit like he should want like he wrote the book

You're feeling that big country radio energy

that big knock-in-the-head country radio power

That's Gabby Barrett

Gabby Barrett out here swinging a mighty sword on country radio

That is currently or at least as of yesterday the number one

song on the country air play chart in the billboard

Regular listeners of podcasts people who follow the country business know

Female performers in Nashville are at a deep disadvantage

structurally kept away from country radio success

It's a dire situation maybe like tiny tiny tiny

nodules of progress but it's a dire dire situation remains dire

I've been thinking a lot about that given that there is a new generation of

female performers who seem to be having a little bit of success or country radio

And so I wanted to talk and think about what the conditions were that we're

leading to that success and also tiktok I know we talk about tiktok

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