I'm Christine Dean and this is Live from Studio A, and I'm very happy to welcome back to our studios, Josie Lange, Josie Langhorst and, with her today is Amri Gilbertson.

welcome to both of you.

Thank you.

Thanks for coming back.

Earlier this year you won the Duluth Dylan Festival songwriter contest.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

Shortly after that there's a website called Adventures in Americana and they're doing a yearlong piece on you, has that what does that been like so far?

So Tom Smouse, he... has a podcast called Smouse in the House where he will come to a musician's house and just do a podcast, So we met up at Salem Lutheran Church, which is in Mahtowa, where we kind of got our whole start.

So it was very cool.

A few months later, he reached out to me again.

He's like, I have this idea and I want you to be a part of it.

And that's kind of where Minnesota musician diary type thing came about.

The punch line never delivers, but one day I'll get a card.

A crinkled up, piece paper, thanking me for breaking your heart.

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