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Setting off on a road trip of discovery across the southern United States, aspiring singer-songwriter ISMAY leaves the i | dG1fUnItWmVKTllqbDQ
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00:00The
00:14place that I was born into in the family that I was born into gave me this destiny to play music, but at the same time
00:22I definitely have my doubts.
00:25Widely known as one of the best songwriters of her time and any other time, critics praise her eclectic sound.
00:31But it wasn't until 1998 and her album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road that she won recognition and a Grammy.
00:44If you're copying someone, you're not saying something that makes you scared to say.
00:48Wow.
00:52That's where the music happened for years and years.
00:55As a musician, you just have so many doubts about your own worthiness.
00:59Just curious if you've experienced that kind of feeling and how you deal with that.
01:04It's seeming that I wouldn't feel that way.
01:06These boots are the same boots I was wearing then.
01:14This beer I'm drinking is still the same old man.
01:18So nice to meet you.
01:19What a beautiful voice you have.
01:20Oh, thanks.
01:21Creation's happening all around us right now.
01:25The infamous tape vault.
01:27Ooh, we got Lucinda.
01:29There we go.
01:30She had all these original songs.
01:32You're the only person she shared these with.
01:35I struggled more, like, maybe than she did with that sense of being needed.
01:39Here we are all these years later, she's still at it.
01:41Yeah, she still didn't give up.
01:46I think I've gotten my answers in so many different versions of what to do about my self-doubt and uncertainty from everybody but her.
02:00All right.
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