Before his song You Ain’t Pretty hit the Top 40 on the Billboard country charts, Nate Barnes was clocking in at a nuclear power plant in Michigan. In this revealing interview, Nate shares his journey from small-town South Haven to Nashville’s country music scene—and how faith, family, and trades work shaped every step.

In This Episode:

1. Why Nate spent over a decade in skilled trades before pursuing music full-time
2. How a spiritual moment during a church service changed his career path
3. What it felt like hearing his music on the radio for the first time
4. The powerful story behind his new album Holding You
5. Why he believes the most honest songs come from hard-earned experience

Links:

Website: https://www.natebarnesmusic.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/natebarnesmusic

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/natebarnesmusic

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@natebarnesmusic

Music Platforms: Available on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, YouTube Music

We got to top 40 on the Billboard country charts.

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The, the, oh yeah.

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Let, let alone just being on the

billboard charts, was insane.

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Or being on the radio was

insane, Coming from just leaving

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a power plant in my life.

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and that, yeah, that song

really changed my life.

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We just want to write a

positive song for women.

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And a positive message

for people out there.

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It just, it just really

changed my life forever.

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Cliff Duvernois: Hello everyone and

welcome back to Total Michigan, where

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we interview ordinary Michiganders

doing extraordinary things.

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I'm your host Cliff DuVernois.

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Country music is kind of a thing.

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And I have to say, it's awesome that

Michigan seems to be the birthplace of

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some really talented people that are

coming up in the country music industry.

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And with that being said, uh,

we're talking to one of those

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artists today whose album.

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It's just dropped, and that would

be Holding You and you should

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definitely go and check it out.

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It's definitely worth the ear time

that you would spend on it, but

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the, uh, the artist, the singer,

the composer, the entertainer for

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this is a gentleman by the name of

Nate Barnes, and he's with us today.

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Nate, how are you?

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I'm good.

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Good, Cliff.

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How are you?

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I'm doing awesome.

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Thank you for asking.

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So why don't you tell us a

little bit about where you're

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from and where did you grow up?

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Nate Barnes: Yeah, well, uh, we're

here pretty much, uh, where I'm from.

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I'm from South Haven, Michigan.

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Grew, grew up here my whole life.

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small town, guy, country, dude,

just, you know, big family kind

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of was in music my whole life.

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kind of led me, there's so much in, within

from when I was a kid to where I'm at,

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to now, but it all really led me to this

moment in my life and this album that

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just came out singing country music.

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So, which is exciting.

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So thanks for having me.

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Appreciate it.

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Cliff Duvernois: So you said you're,

you're from, the South Haven area?

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Yeah.

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At what point.

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Did you actually get

exposed to country music?

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Nate Barnes: Country music?

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my whole life was, I had

country music in my life.

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blues.

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I grew up, blues, a lot of blues,

Motown, all sorts of music.

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I got exposed to so much music

but country to, to be honest.

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And, and it never really hit,

Me until I, I was an adult,

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until I was, I was 21 years old.

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is when I knew I wanted

to do country music.

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I, I knew, I, I, without a doubt, I had

to be a part of country music in some way.

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and, but prior to that, I mean,

I was in rock bands, death metal

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bands, blues bands, everything

you can think of, punk bands.

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As a drummer, I.

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Oh, wow, okay.

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as a drummer for my whole life.

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something kept leading me to

keep writing music on the side

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and doing this other thing.

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And, and, and when I was 21, it was

like, that's, I, it's, I found it.

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It was like, I've been, I've been

missing, this is what I've been

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missing my whole life, right?

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This is who I really am.

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my buddy, Dennis Hartman, and we're.

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This is my, this is where I

stay at, and this is his barn.

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And he came into my life and he

reintroduced country music to me.

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And when he did that, and it was during

a time of my life that I was searching

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a deeper meaning of, of God in my life.

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Deeper meaning of who I am as a

man what I really want outta life.

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And then he, he

reintroduced country music.

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And it was like.

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Prior to that I was

running from the truth.

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And then when I got to

that age, I was seeking it.

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Yeah.

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And then country music is like

it, all it does is tell the truth.

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You know?

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And that's what I think I had a trouble

with connecting with country music before.

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'cause I didn't want to feel those.

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I didn't want to.

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I didn't want to feel that.

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'cause I was trying to, I

didn't want to go there yet.

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Right.

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I wasn't ready.

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That's when country music

came into my life for real.

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Cliff Duvernois: So you said you

were a drummer in a number of bands.

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So is your family, is it like musicians?

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Did you

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Nate Barnes: Yeah, yeah.

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We, you know, we were all like singers.

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Like growing up with my family was,

was really, amazing in a lot of ways.

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one was music.

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Is what brought us together.

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Music and food and gatherings.

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But music was such a big deal for us.

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my grandma would play piano all the time

and we would go around a piano and sing

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and a lot of singers, a lot of people

in the marching band, stuff like that.

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And no one knew that I was

gonna be the kid that really.

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Took it over.

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Right.

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You know, really, you know, I was, my

first band was in like fifth grade.

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I was in, I was gigging by

the time I was 12 years old.

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Oh, nice.

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Like in bars by the time I was like

14, playing in bars and in venues.

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And

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Cliff Duvernois: Did you have to convince

anyone that you were 18 or anything?

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Nate Barnes: Yeah, I, I was a great liar.

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Yeah.

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But then my mom would come, my mom would,

my mom would drop me off these places

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and hey, I'm, he can be in here and.

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Oh, that's hilarious.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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So you really got, it was everything

bit by the, the stage bug.

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It was everything.

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Like early, well here too, a

lot of people don't know, like

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Southwest Michigan, during that time

growing up, we all were musicians.

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The who I, when I grew up, there were

so many incredible singers and musicians

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and artists and people and bands.

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We, everybody was in a band.

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A lot of us were.

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And so it was, uh, very common to,

not only in your home life, but

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like in your school life was, Hey,

after practice, let's get to my

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house and let's start rehearsing.

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Let's start thinking about the

biggest dreams that we have as a band.

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You know?

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Yeah.

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It was like, it was very normal.

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Very normal.

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And it was in very incredible

musicians around around me that

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really inspired me to really,

grab a hold of wanting to do this.

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It was just, it was, to me,

it was like a mini Nashville.

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Like young kids setting up gigs

at, at a venue, right, until

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one in the morning playing.

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As teenagers.

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It's pretty odd, and, but a lot of

us doing it and, uh, doing it good.

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I mean, there was some, some incredible

guys, so it was pretty easy for me.

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But I, I knew even before that, like when

I was a kid, My granddad who passed away,

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he grew up with a guy named BB King.

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Yeah.

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In Tupelo, and, well, as he grew up,

my granddad in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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Him and BB uh, became really

good childhood friends.

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Cliff Duvernois: Oh, cool.

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Nate Barnes: And they grew up together.

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Anyways, he was, uh, a kind of a

part of our family, and we were

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had a lot of ties to him as well.

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My granddad knew a lot about music.

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Knew, and he was very, very

knowledgeable about it.

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And his life was insane.

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My granddad was an incredible man.

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But his, the life he lived was

bizarre and, and very, very wild.

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And he would sit with us

kids and tell stories.

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And the way he told stories, it

was the best storyteller I ever

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met in my life, When he would do

that, he would always have records

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on and, and, and listen to music.

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That as a kid, I was a

really, really young guy.

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I knew right then that I

wanted to tell stories.

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I wanted to be involved in music.

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I knew that, and as a young age,

right, because I wanted to tell

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stories like my granddad, he was,

and touch people's lives in that way.

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I just knew.

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I just knew that.

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But he breathed that

and he never sat down.

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Nate, I want you to

play the guitar, right?

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I want you to go play drums.

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He just, the way he told stories and

how he did it, the conviction and the

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life he lived really touched, me, my

heart, and, as a really small kid.

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And then from then on it was just, you

didn't, nobody needed to do anything.

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I just did it.

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IFI found whatever it took

to get instruments, whatever

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it took, it didn't matter.

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Whatever it took to go

play somewhere, perform.

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I, I, I was gonna figure it out.

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We were gonna, and, uh, it was just this

burning desire to, to wanna do this.

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Right.

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Cliff Duvernois: You

started off on the drums.

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Yeah.

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So talk to us about that transition

there, because like with the drums

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and stuff, you can kind of hide

yourself a little bit in the back.

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But now you're up front.

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Spotlight's on you.

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So how did you make that transition?

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Or when did you realize, you know

what, I actually have a set of pipes.

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I can sing.

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Nate Barnes: I never thought I had

a set of pipes and I could sing.

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Never did.

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I never did.

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In fact, like it, I mean, I

grew, I played, I started playing

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piano, started playing guitar.

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but my, I really was a drummer.

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I really, that's what I was gonna,

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Cliff Duvernois: in your

heart, you're a drummer.

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Nate Barnes: I was gonna hang

my hat in my future on being a

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drummer, and all I wanted to do was

be the best musician in the world.

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Yeah.

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Or the best musician I

could be backing somebody.

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Banking is superstar, right?

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That's all I wanted.

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Give, and I didn't wanna be up there.

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I wanted to be back here doing

my thing in the background.

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Now if you talk to other people,

I, you know, I loved attention.

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I was always wanting attention.

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But that transition was really,

um, around middle school.

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When I was in middle school,

in the, late middle school, I.

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because I, I was, I would

write songs on tape recorders.

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Oh, cool.

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I would write songs on tape

recorders and, and it was terrible.

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I couldn't sing.

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I tried to sing like Johnny Lane.

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I don't know if you know who

the old b old, uh, blues guy.

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I tried to sing like

everybody behind closed doors.

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But it was like, man, I can't, I.

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I can't sing good.

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Right.

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And I can't write songs good.

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But I like it, so I'll keep trying it.

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And I was at church one day because

I used to play in a lot of churches

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and youth groups and stuff.

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I, I wasn't playing that day.

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I was in the, Uh, watching the

service and something told me,

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it was like deep in my, my heart.

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Yeah.

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I was like, Nate, and it's, it was like,

Nate, you need to, you need to sing.

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There, there were people

were singing up there.

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And I just started crying

like they were singing.

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And it really, they really

like, and I heard this thing.

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It's like, that's what I want you to do.

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I want you to do that.

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And I was like, oh my God.

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Then I really dug into trying

to be, an en I was already an

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entertainer, but like a front guy.

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And then that's when I started

doing solo stuff, getting a

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band and doing my own thing.

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And figuring that out.

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But that's how that transition.

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And I never was, I hated my voice.

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I never liked it.

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It was, it was horrible.

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Cliff.

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Horrible.

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And it took a lot, a lot, a lot of

years and a lot of, a lot of work.

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I, I was always the guy that.

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Anything I did in my life, I had to

work 10 times harder than anybody else.

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Nothing came easy for me.

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It may have looked like it did, but

nothing really came easy for me.

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Right.

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Nothing.

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I mean, I had talent, in, in some

ways, but I worked my butt off for, a

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lot and got lucky on certain things,

So, yeah, singing was one of those.

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Cliff Duvernois: I do wanna make

sure that we talk about this because

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it wasn't just all of a sudden, you

know, you're turning 18 and, and

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your music career is taking off.

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You actually had a few interesting jobs.

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Along the way to support yourself.

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So talk to us about the decision to

just to get a job to support you.

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Nate Barnes: Well, there's a

lot that, that kind of happened

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throughout that time, but the main

thing is, is I had a buddy that

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told me, a dear friend of mine that.

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He would tell me, he is like, Nate,

you always gotta go after dreams.

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And like we were talking about before

this, uh, we started, I got really lucky

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being around the people, the men and

women I got to be around growing up.

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They saw life in a way

that I needed to hear it.

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Like they, they saw it in

such a bigger way, right?

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Than I could even think about.

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And they really stretched me in a sense

of, going after, these just crazy dreams.

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But they were, they were.

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They weren't just, they would show me.

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They wouldn't tell me.

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And so with that, he, he, he

told me one time he sat me down.

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He is like, I know you want to go

live your dream, and that's important.

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You have to do that.

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But you need to learn how

to make a living first.

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He says, if you don't know how to

do that, and I want, and you need

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to not only make a living, you

need to be the best at what you do.

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Yes.

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Making a living and

give everything you got.

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And where you're so valuable.

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If you leave, it's, it's not a good thing.

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Learn how to do that and make a big life

in that first, and of course, be working

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on your dream and, but until you really

go, and I was so glad that he did that.

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He said that, 'cause that's, I did that

right and I knew what he meant afterwards.

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It was like, he show me what you

got here because if you can't even

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do this, Not saying that this isn't

nothing, but if you can't do this,

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what's what it's gonna take to do this?

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You ain't gonna have it

in here or in here, right?

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There's a lot of things you need to learn

here first before you go do this fairytale

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thing I, I took that serious and I did.

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So I, I, I, uh, I started

working at nuclear power plants.

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I, I got, I was a trades guy.

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I got in the unions.

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and then, uh, for over a decade, I worked

in nuclear power plants and did all I mean

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there, nuclear power plants, coal plants.

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I mean, I did so many

different crazy, amazing jobs.

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And then I ended up working

at a, uh, the Palisades.

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Nuclear power plant here in culvert.

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That's just now opening up, thank God.

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I worked at the mechanical maintenance

department there and, uh, and I loved it.

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I loved, I, I loved working

at that power plant so much.

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It taught me so much.

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I got to do so much It gave

me a really great life.

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Yeah.

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It was really good to my family.

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My stepfather, worked there for 45 years.

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Oh, wow.

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Yeah.

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and so it was a big part of our family.

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Mm-hmm.

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I actually got to work with them hand

in hand, uh, in the same department.

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which was a huge honor, a

really big honor for me.

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It led me to that and then to

led me to this, you know, kind of

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God moment of going to Nashville.

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And during that time I'm gigging too.

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I'm, I'm working, this is not a job.

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It's a real career.

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worked my butt off for

a lot of years for that.

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But, outside I would,

I would be gigging too.

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I'd be.

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Hustle and gigging doing everything.

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I good.

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Yes.

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so yeah, and then it led me to, uh, this

opportunity to Nashville to leave it all.

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And, and I did.

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But,

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Cliff Duvernois: For our audience,

we're gonna take a quick break and

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take our sponsors when we come back.

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we're gonna continue our conversation

with, uh, Nate Barnes, and we're gonna

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dive a lot more into his, uh, new album

Holding You, available and all the

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major platforms that are out there.

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So make sure to check that out.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to

Total Michigan, where we interview

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ordinary Michiganders doing some

pretty extraordinary things.

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I'm your host Cliff DuVernois.

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Today we're talking with country music

singer Nate Barnes, and the release of

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his album Holding You and, uh, Nate.

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What I'd like to do is, I would

like to talk about that moment that

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came to you when you were like,

holy cow, I can actually do this.

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Nate Barnes: I was, just getting out of a

relationship with the gal and, uh, at that

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time I saw my whole life, I, I knew what

my whole life was gonna be and I didn't

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think music was gonna be a part of that.

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It was gonna be a power plant family.

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Oh, okay.

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This.

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I was very committed to that.

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I was like, this is where God has me.

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This is what's supposed to

be I'll, I'm gonna do that.

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well that didn't work out.

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And I'm sitting in the house is

the empty house and, uh, all alone.

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And I was, I was sitting in

this chair and I was like, well,

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God, I did what you asked me.

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I saw that whole thing through.

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I thought that's what it was.

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I gave up this whole other dream.

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Now what?

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And I was like, what do

you want me to do now?

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And this thing, I've never had it like

this before, but it was like, and I

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was there all alone and it was like, I

heard this voice and, I swear to God I

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heard this like voice deep inside of me.

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He was like, Nate.

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You can't run anymore.

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I called you to do this.

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You're the one that's been running and

it was like, you can't hide anymore.

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It's time.

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And I was like, well,

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Cliff Duvernois: I got goosebumps.

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What?

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Nate Barnes: And it was clear.

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And I was like, in, it was, you was right.

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You was right.

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I was running from it.

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I did not all the way do it.

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And I was like, okay.

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I'm gonna give everything I got.

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It's time.

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And then from that day on, literally

from that day on, every single day,

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people would call me, that people that

I didn't talk to for 10 years would

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call me Nate, I'm thinking about you.

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You need to go call this person.

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All these doors would open

yes and every day, every day.

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And it wouldn't stop.

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And it kept getting crazier

and crazier to all the way to,

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A record deal in Nashville.

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And then it, you know, led me

to, to Nashville for a stay.

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And that's when I met, people

that, that gave me a record deal.

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And it was like, oh my God.

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And it just would not stop.

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And it was like, so I gotta

leave the power plant.

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I gotta leave this.

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I gotta move in.

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I moved into a hotel room

for a year and a half.

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Yeah.

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With me and my dog.

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So that's, see that right

there is a country song.

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Cliff Duvernois: Yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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So that's, that's how, okay.

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Oh man, I wish we had more time.

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There's so much there to unpack

a little Yeah, but I, I know.

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So what I wanna do is, so let's

talk about that breakout song.

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I.

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Right.

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The one that really made Nate Barnes.

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Nate Barnes.

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Right.

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And it's, you ain't pretty.

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You ain't pretty.

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Nate Barnes: Yeah.

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Cliff Duvernois: Yes.

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Which by the way, for our

audience, please go to YouTube.

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Check it out.

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Nate Barnes: Please check it out.

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Cliff Duvernois: Please check it out.

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'cause it's, it's a great

song and it's a great video.

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But Nate, talk to us about that.

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Nate Barnes: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That was my first ever single, to

radio and, first song that I, I,

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I, uh, came out with my producers,

Mickey, Jack Cos and Derek George

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and my, team back in Nashville.

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And we got to top 40 on the

Billboard country charts.

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The, the, oh yeah.

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Let, let alone just being on the

billboard charts, was insane.

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Or being on the radio was

insane, Coming from just leaving

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a power plant in my life.

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and that, yeah, that song

really changed my life.

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And, you know, the writers, Jason

Sellers and Jimmy Yie, big name writers

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on there that, You know, we just want

to write a positive song for women.

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And a positive message

for people out there.

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It just, it just really

changed my life forever.

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Yeah.

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It's pretty cool.

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Crazy.

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Never would've thought.

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I mean, you know, you do stuff,

but it's still like, holy

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crap, this is actually working.

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Keep going.

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You know?

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Exactly.

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Keep going.

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Cliff Duvernois: So now

you're at the point where your

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first album is dropping Yes.

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Holding You.

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Yep.

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the song Holding You, the

debut song from the album.

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Where did that come from?

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did you write that?

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Where did the ideas come from?

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Nate Barnes: I wrote that with Buddy, uh,

Jason, Massey and, and, uh, Sarah Hayes.

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At that time, I kept having these

weird dreams of my granddad's hands.

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I would wake up with images of my,

and he had these like really massive,

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just manly hands and, You could tell

a lot about a person by looking at.

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The, their hands, you know?

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Yes.

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he, they tell a lot of stories,

you know, about who they are.

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Anyway, so we're sitting there and

we're just like, I really want to share

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that story about my granddad's hands.

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And then we're like, you know what?

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let's do something better.

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Let's talk about a man that, really,

that really, uh, could fix anything

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in the world, but he can't fix

this, this broken relationship.

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Yes.

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How can this guy that can do

anything, he can build anything,

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break anything, do whatever.

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But he can't, heal this relationship.

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He can't save this girl.

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it's like it's worthless.

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So it's, what's the point?

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So.

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And that's how we wrote that song.

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It's, it's one of my favorite

songs I ever wrote, in my

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whole life, in the production,

everything, it just, it's turned

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out everything I could ever imagine.

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I'm really proud of that, this song

and, and, I can't wait to see what,

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how people are, are gonna love it.

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Cliff Duvernois: when you're

recording it, because now there's

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a very personal element, right?

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'cause you're talking about

your grandfather's hands.

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Nate Barnes: Yeah.

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Cliff Duvernois: So you write the song,

you go in and you record it Uhhuh.

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Right?

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how does it feel knowing that

the song is so personal to you?

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Nate Barnes: It always,

it just feels good.

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It feels good.

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You know, a lot, a lot of times you,

you write songs sometimes, you can be

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selfish and you write 'em for yourself.

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And then a lot of times, or at least

you try to put yourself or who you

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are in those songs, It feels good to,

to see somebody else connect to it.

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I think that's, that's really amazing

to see somebody and to see how they

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connect to it in their own way.

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It, it's just, uh, growing up I didn't

know how to this, that's kind of weird

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thing to talk about, but I didn't

know how to communicate with people.

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I was really bad at talking with people.

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I didn't know how to connect with people.

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The only way I found how to

really connect with people was,

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telling my story through songs.

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And then telling my experience, telling

my life journey and seeing if other

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people can understand that right.

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And then when they do,

it's just like, ugh.

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It, it's, it does, it's, it's a very

personal thing and it feels good

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Cliff Duvernois: How much your life

in skilled trades has now had an

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influence on the music that you write.

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Nate Barnes: Oh, a lot, a lot I would,

I would say, being in the trades and

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stuff I got to experience, in tho that

line of work really just taught me more

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about the being a, a honest person,

honest individual, and having integrity

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of what you do and being re and being,

and going and going the extra mile.

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And that's kind of how I look

at the music and writing music,

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taking the time to really does

this, do I really believe this?

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Do I really believe this?

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Oh, that's cool.

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And if I don't really believe

this, how the hell is somebody

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else gonna believe it?

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Yes.

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So that's, that's where I start with

and, and be because of, the line of

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work I used to do that you, You had

to be fully, you had to be a hundred

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percent in, or you can get yourself in

trouble, hurt or somebody else in hurt

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or possibly killed if you ain't in all

the way and if you ain't paying attention

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and if you ain't doing the right thing.

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I gotta believe it.

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I gotta feel it.

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And that's what I want.

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I want people to feel something,

feel something real, and

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that's how I, I look at music.

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When I listen to music.

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I listen to it and immediately know

if I, I love it or not immediately.

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I know that's like, I believe it.

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I buy it.

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I know exactly.

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I feel every word you're saying.

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I've either lived it or

I can, I can, I get it.

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So that's what I like

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Cliff Duvernois: When you say I lived

it, I was thinking that this right here

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has gotta be a beautiful way for you

to really connect with your audience,

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because like you said before, this is

something that you've had to work for.

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Nate Barnes: Yeah.

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Cliff Duvernois: Right.

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And you, you didn't start off as a singer.

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You had to like, you had

to earn your chops Right.

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To get there.

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Yeah.

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And to develop your voice in

the meantime with you working.

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You're just like, you're

just like the audience.

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A lot of these, people that come

out and see you are working nine

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to five jobs, they're working 12

hours a day, swinging hammers.

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So you're on stage.

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You know what that's like.

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Yeah.

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Right?

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Yeah.

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You weren't discovered as a prodigy when

you were six years old and started singing

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and all of a sudden you're on stage.

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So that's gotta give you a

beautiful way to really be able to

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connect with your audience to say.

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I know what you're going through.

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Yeah, I know what you

experience every day.

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Nate Barnes: Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm just a normal, regular

old dude, you know?

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Oh, I doubt that highly.

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And, and, and, uh,

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and just got lucky and, or I was, you

know, I just got blessed with the, just

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a, a great thing to go do in my life

that I've been, dreaming about, but.

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I got to live a lot of real life.

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I got to experience a lot of things in

my life and, yes, it does feel good.

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because it is just like you get,

you see what you get, ain't nothing,

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ain't no, smoke and mirrors.

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It's like I don't know how to

be any, anything else but me.

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which is makes it easier for

me because I don't gotta lie.

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I don't gotta lie about nothing, right?

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It's, it's just, it's me.

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I'm singing the songs.

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I love to sing.

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I'm being real.

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And, and now I get to share music

with the people that, you know,

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that, kind of made me, you know.

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So hell yeah.

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Cliff Duvernois: Nate, if somebody

is listening to this and they

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want to check you out Yeah.

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Which you should by the way.

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Um, they wanna check you out.

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They wanna listen to your music,

they want to get your album.

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Where's the best place for them to go?

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I.

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Nate Barnes: Go, uh, anywhere online.

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Uh, check out my website, my

Instagram, Nate Barnes music

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and, uh, TikTok, Facebook.

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And then anywhere that you stream music,

check, check out Nate Barnes, music my

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album Holding You is out and, uh, it's,

I've been working for two and a half

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years on this album, so it's a big deal.

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Big deal for me, and I

hope you guys love it.

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Awesome.

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Cliff Duvernois: Yes, definitely

make sure that you take the

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time to check out the album.

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Nate.

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Man, I wish we, I wish we had more time.

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I know, me too, Nate.

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it's been wonderful

having you on the show.

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We'll have to have you back again.

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Yeah.

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But, thanks for coming on today.

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Nate Barnes: Thank you, Cliff.

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Thanks for having me.

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Cliff Duvernois: And for our audience,

you can roll on over to Total Michigan.com

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and click on Nate's interview and get

all the links that he mentioned above.

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We'll catch you next time when we

talk to another Michigander, doing

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some pretty extraordinary things.

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We'll see you then.