Haley Johnsen ~ American Idol left a lasting impression!

During our Coffee and Conversations session at the Whitefish Songwriter Festival, we had the chance to sit down with singer-songwriter Haley Johnsen for an honest and powerful conversation about the journey that shaped her as an artist. Haley shared how music was woven into her life from an early age, heavily influenced by her parents—especially her dad, a drummer who helped spark her passion for performing. We also talked about her experience as a contestant on American Idol, and how the intensity of that time left a lasting emotional impact that she still describes as a form of PTSD years later. Rather than letting that chapter define her, Haley turned the experience into fuel for her creativity, channeling those lessons into writing and recording deeply personal music. Today, that resilience and authenticity shine through in the songs she’s creating as an independent artist forging her own path.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:05

So uh welcome out. Our first guest this morning is Miss Haley Johnson, who hails from Pen uh Pendleton, Portland. Why did I want to say Pendleton, Oregon?

SPEAKER_02 0:16

I've been there.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Yeah, I I was just there. The Roundup went on, right? Have you been to the Roundup?

SPEAKER_02 0:20

I haven't been to the Roundup, but I did play the Jackalope Jamboree there this summer.

SPEAKER_01 0:24

Oh, you got to play the Jackal Ope. Yeah, that's a whole nother story. I'll tell you that someday.

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Oh drama.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

This mic a little bit more. Damn. Okay. Oh, there we go. There we go. That's a funny. Yeah, you just at whatever you we just don't want to make sure that it's not covering up your face. Your beautiful face. So there you go.

SPEAKER_02 0:44

Making a lot of noise. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 0:45

Well, welcome out. Have you been here to uh this festival before?

SPEAKER_02 0:50

No, this is my first time in Whitefish at all.

SPEAKER_01 0:53

What a beautiful place.

SPEAKER_02 0:55

It's been a great intro to this town.

SPEAKER_01 0:57

Uh last year was our first experience with whitefish, and our first that was actually my second songwriter festival. Um Shanda's mother was a songwriter in Arizona. Um uh and and she's been she passed away 25 years ago, but um Shanda grew up listening to songwriters. She would go to songwriter showcases. She actually got to see Jerry Jeff Walker at 12 years old. Jerry wasn't 12, but or wasn't but uh anyway, and uh and so that's that that's kind of where my love of the songwriter festival comes from, is just really fairly new. Love have always loved live music. But uh tell us a little bit about yourself because we want to know when did you get bit by the music bug?

SPEAKER_02 1:44

Man, I was very young when I got bit. I can remember, I have a crazy vivid memory of like my childhood. So I remember being three years old, and my parents are in my first apartment and watching The Little Mermaid, and I just remember being so like, oh my god, and I remember being able to like follow along with the melody, and that was kind of the first time where I was like, singing is fun, I'm gonna be obsessed with this. Yeah, and but I didn't, no one knew. I kept it this little secret. Um, and so over the years I would just kind of dabble and like study all these singers in my room when my parents were gone.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

I was Mom and Dad didn't know.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

No, I mean they knew, but they weren't pushing it, you know. So I I would sing in in church, not just in the congregation, you know, I'd sing along and learn how to harmonize. And so over the years, I just it was just this little secret obsession. And I listened to like a lot of like Celine Dion at the time and was trying to like reach all these notes, and um, so one thing led to another, and I just kept going. Uh, there's more to the story, but I don't know how if you want me to tell you.

SPEAKER_01 2:51

Well, we're we're here for 30 minutes. We gotta fill up 30 minutes worth of time, but um no, we we we love to know the stories and the backstories, and that's one thing that that um uh I love because people have made the comment to me that I'm good at being able to draw those questions out and ask those questions, and so but I I really want to know, you know, I want to know what what really because I know what what really intrigued me in the in the world of music, and I have a very eclectic taste in music, as does Miss Shanda. Um we we we tend to love country music more than other uh genres, but but we love music. Yeah, so um music just and we love live music. There's no replacing a live music experience.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Yeah. Well, so I grew up around a lot of music. My dad was a musician, um, he was a drummer, and he was like the a gigging drummer, like all throughout the 80s and 90s. He was playing in Portland, um, playing in all the rock bands. He was called Frank and Bry, because he was like a monster on the drums. And um uh so I grew up, we listened to a lot of Beatles and uh Bonnie Raitt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, a lot of Southern rock. I didn't really grow up listening to country music, right? But I got a a wealth of uh you know all kinds of genres growing growing up, so I have quite an eclectic music taste.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

But you know, if you talk to most of these country musicians today, artists today, they will all tell you how they were influenced by Southern Rock.

SPEAKER_02 4:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:16

By the Almond Brothers, by Marshall Tucker, by um uh you know, the list goes on and on. I you know, I loved uh um uh Molly Hatchet. I don't know if you'd ever heard of Molly Hatchet, but love Molly Hatchet, right? So, so my my my music out, apparently. No, no, it's a band, actually. So yeah, yeah, but uh a heavy, a heavy, kind of a heavy metal southern rock band, but okay. They they're phenomenal, right? So so but these guys will all tell you, and I and I like to know that, what really influenced your music because you you listen to that stuff, you grew up listening to a lot of different things. Yeah, I'm a lot older, and so I listened to you know the stuff my parents listened to, Ray Price and and Sonny James and Bobby Vinton, uh Eddie Arnold, you know, that the old school stuff. And I actually saw some of those guys live. So, which was cool. But who really influenced you? I mean, being from from Portland, that Northwest uh area has uh uh uh its own uh it's got its own thing going on, like the grudge band that come out of the Northwest.

SPEAKER_02 5:24

You weren't influenced by Nirvana or any of those guys, or no, you know, Portland is it there is definitely a genre there that is the most popular, like indie rock stuff. Um, but you know, I've been so influenced just by um different periods of my life being into indie indie rock at one point, indie music and pop music, and so I kind of grew up with all this, you know, I got really into Brandy Carlisle for a while. She's like my number one, I love her so much, and um you know it wasn't until college that I really started exploring like putting myself out there, and so I was in I was in choir, I was in the chamber choir at Oregon State University, and we toured, we toured China one time, and so I learned I was trained in in choral music and I was in an a cappella group, and the choral people did not like that I was in an a cappella group, they those two worlds did not combine very well. Um, but once I started doing that, I started getting more confident singing out and doing solos. Um, but when I was wrapping up my final year of college, American Idol was coming to town for the first time. They were doing a big audition in Portland, and so I was finishing up my senior year, and I was like, I don't want to do it, scary. And all my friends were like, Hey, Legis, come on, we've heard you sing, let's just go for it. So I did it, and to my surprise, I kept making it and making it, and I wrote my final page of um my college career, final paper uh during Hollywood week of American Idol. I made it to the top 24.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

Congratulations.

SPEAKER_02 7:03

Yeah, and so thank you. It was a crazy experience, and then when I got home from that experience, I moved home with my parents and I wood shopped and I went out into the back shed and I wrote as many songs as I possibly could because I hadn't really written songs at that point. I was just a singer, and so that whole experience was the catalyst for me being like, you know what, I think I can I think I could figure this out. I think this is what I need to do.

SPEAKER_01 7:29

Well, I think you know, for those of us that love songwriter festivals, we understand the the the whole songwriter how that deal works because there are performers and there are songwriters, and there are some that are some performers are songwriters as well. But that being said, um uh there's lots and lots of performers that had never written a song. Yeah they just if those songs were there or they just sang covers, yeah. Right. So what's what's your songwriting process? I mean, you you went you went home and started on your own. Have you evolved from that and and gotten into collaboration or yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

I think I was really scared of collaboration at first. It's very vulnerable, and like you everyone's kind of got different ideas, but um I started writing with um a bandmate of mine uh early on in my career, uh, and we've written a lot of songs together. I've had the opportunity to write with um Dwight Baker, he's an Austin, Texas producer. We wrote some of the songs in my last record. Um, but mostly my writing process is I I have to like lock myself away in like a cabin for a few days just because I'm if I'm at home, man, I just get so ADHD and I'm just like cleaning the house. Like I really have to be like Haley, you are going to just you need to just get away from all the noise. And so I go on a lot of writing retreats and just kind of try to go inward and um see what's what's there and uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:58

So has your goal been to be more of a performer since you did the American Idol thing and you had that opportunity uh uh and had some great success? I mean, top 24 at American Idol is a big thing. So so was that was it was that was that really what you decided when you got done that that you wanted to be a performer or you wanted to be the whole package?

SPEAKER_02 9:23

You wanted to I think I yeah, I think I was like, if I'm gonna do this, I wanna write. I want to do it my way, I want to figure out what my what my style is. It really meant a lot for me to make sure um I was putting priorities uh or my attention on both things. Sure. Being a performer is definitely like the first thing that um I got really interested in, but songwriting, I feel like I'm a singer first, songwriter second, and I'm this has been such an amazing experience this weekend because being around other songwriters, seeing their what their process is, just really listening in on the lyrics, like um, I still have so much to learn when it comes to songwriting, and I'm just so grateful I got to be here and meet so many awesome people.

SPEAKER_01 10:04

Well, learning this whole thing and having the these conversations with with a hundred, I don't know, a hundred and eighty some artists, is that everyone's different and it's a different process. And everyone, you you got to work with uh uh some guys in Austin, Texas. You spent some time down there, um, and you talk about producers, we talk about Nashville producers. We there's so many people in this industry that it's difficult to know, and even artist-wise. I've had this weekend I've had people tell me, Oh, do you know this artist? And have you listened to this man? Look in this record shop. I mean, there's there's I bet you I've only listened to maybe 10% of the artists that are in this shop. You think about all the artists in the world and all the independent artists. And so what's what's your uh uh have you cut some albums?

SPEAKER_02 10:53

I've cut a lot of albums. Have you? Yeah, my first album I put out in 2015.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

Wow. Um and well let me back up, excuse me. I I don't mean to interrupt you, but when did you do the American Idol? Uh what year was that?

SPEAKER_02 11:05

That was season 11. So it was I was auditioning from August of 2011 to March of 2012.

SPEAKER_01 11:12

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 11:12

It was like back and forth. It was a whole process.

SPEAKER_01 11:15

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 11:15

Yeah, so yeah, that was a little bit more.

SPEAKER_01 11:17

So it's been a while ago. So you've you've had time to cut lots of albums.

SPEAKER_02 11:21

Yeah, I put out a few, um, a few full-length albums, some EPs, a bunch of singles, some covers, and I've just kind of been, you know, it's it's been a process, but I've I'm really proud of the the work I've put out. And I've if you listen to my catalog, I've I've gone through a lot of phases, I think. Um during COVID, I made kind of like a more synth indie pop album, and I have a song called Goner that is one of my favorite songs, but um I'm kind of feeling more like what my voice naturally wants to do is kind of the more Americana soul stuff, and so I'm kind of trying to pinpoint my my writing to kind of fit more of what my voice naturally wants to do. I love pop music, but I just know that's not the kind of like performing I want to do. I want to I want to get up there with a full band and acoustic guitar, electric guitar, and I want to rock out.

unknown 12:12

Cool.

SPEAKER_01 12:13

Well, so back to American Idol, real quick. Um, who were the judges the year you were there?

SPEAKER_02 12:18

Um I had Steven Tyler, Jennifer Lopez, and Randy Jackson. Wow. Yeah, and Randy Jackson was really mean to me, unfortunately. Really? I did not end well on that show, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_01 12:31

So, so well I've I've talked to several who've been on American Idol and The Voice as well. And so the the upside to American Idol is if you make it on that program, you look at those who who won it. You know, um Carrie Underwood and you know, have had some of these have had huge careers, right? You know, but you look at the voice. We just interviewed uh Sundance Head. You guys remember who Sundance Head was? He won the voice uh in 2016. See, no one even knows him because there's no support in that program once it's done.

SPEAKER_04 13:04

Yeah, right?

SPEAKER_01 13:05

American Idol has the the the artist support. And so did you continue to work with any of those people after the fact?

SPEAKER_02 13:12

Oh no, they took me right to the curb. Really? They took me out of my nice hotel room through me in a crappy hotel room by the airport, and we were gone eating cold pizza. It was I got it, reality TV is is something else. But you know what? I think American Idol has a different vibe than the voice. I've actually considered uh I'm considering auditioning for the voice.

SPEAKER_01 13:34

Sure. Don't tell anyone. I think yeah, we won't tell anyone.

SPEAKER_02 13:38

But because I have a little bit of PTSD from reality TV, but the way I look at it is, you know, I think there's a little bit of like ego involved in that, like, right? Like, I don't want to have to do that again. But like really it's an opportunity to you have to kind of ride the wave afterwards. Like, I I don't want to rely on, you know, I want to rely on the new fans I get and have material ready. I think that's the best way to do it.

SPEAKER_01 14:00

Well, and and and I and once again, I don't know because I haven't experienced it, but those artists that I have talked to, it's it's been interesting because of that that journey that they experienced through the the reality TV program. Now there's a new show coming out. I don't know if y'all know this. Uh it's called The Road.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

My friend's on that show.

SPEAKER_01 14:19

Who's your friend?

SPEAKER_02 14:20

Brittany Kellogg.

SPEAKER_01 14:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:21

She's from Portland.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

I have not met Britney Kellogg, but two other girls, two other girls that are on there. Uh, Miss Billie Jo Jones is from Fort Worth, Texas, and she's been on the podcast with us, as well as Olivia Harms, who is an Oregonian originally. Okay. She's from down south. Uh, she's pretty ranchy. She's not from the big city. Um, but uh she grew up on a ranch. And her mother, her mother is uh very, very talented uh singer songwriter as well, who's who's uh uh international western music uh like entertainer of the year six times. I mean, this little this Olivia grew up on the on on the stage, literally. Yeah, so but but you know, so each each one of these programs are cool because we all love music, so we watch them, right? But but what's the aftermath, you know? Yeah, and and there's been thousands of of artists who've gone through that, right? How many seasons now has there been? Uh you were on season 11, that's 14 years ago. 15 years ago. So um, but uh um so so uh where do you where do you go from here after after uh what you've been through? You're still an independent artist. You do not have a uh publishing deal for songwriting, you don't have a a record deal with anyone.

SPEAKER_02 15:40

No, no, I have a manager.

SPEAKER_01 15:42

You do well, there you go.

SPEAKER_02 15:43

Yeah, a manager, he's my also my booking agent. He's my he's my ride or die.

SPEAKER_01 15:47

There you go.

SPEAKER_02 15:48

Yeah, but uh, but yeah, I've been doing this independently and kind of Portland is a really beautiful scene. I've got a lot of amazing musician friends there, and we're all kind of like you know, climbing the ladder together, supporting each other. So I'm really grateful to live in a town that where there's not a lot of competition, but like where it's a community of people really rooting for each other. Um and uh well, this lost my train of thought. Whoops.

SPEAKER_01 16:13

Uh welcome. Welcome to my head.

SPEAKER_02 16:16

Or a copy.

SPEAKER_01 16:16

Can you can you can you imagine what it's like inside Aaron Raitiere's head? Uh we had a great conversation yesterday. We got to interview Aaron, he's a great guy. Nice. But so my my question uh would be where where do you go from here now? Is kind of where we were headed. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:35

Where do I go from here? Well, um coming up next.

SPEAKER_01 16:38

The voice, maybe.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Maybe we'll see. We'll see. Um I'm going on tour with my friend Liam St. John in a couple weeks, October through November. He's an amazing blues artist, and we're doing a US tour, so I'm gonna be following him around in my Prius around the States. Um you are from Portland, so yeah, yeah, you know, gotta be great, gas mileage, just saying. Um, but I'll do that, and then um, you know, just I I've done a lot of tours in in Europe and the UK, so I'm trying to lock in some dates over there, hopefully in the next year. Um but yeah, I mean every day is a hustle. I mean, me and my my manager are just trying to get gigs, trying to, I'm trying to write more songs, and um I'm currently recording some new tunes with um some of my pals in Portland.

SPEAKER_01 17:23

And have you had any have you had any other artists cut your songs?

SPEAKER_02 17:27

I haven't. No, I haven't.

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Now is that your goal? I mean, is that is ultimately would you like to be in that situation and have someone else cut some of your your music?

SPEAKER_02 17:36

Because some some artists are no, it's just for me, you know, but yeah, I I that's never really been my my goal, but I think it's also wise, you know, as a songwriter, um I do write a lot of different kinds of songs, and so I think a part of it is learning not to be too precious with everything you write and be like, is this really what is gonna fit your your thing? And so maybe you know, being able to be like, huh, okay, maybe I can pitch this to someone else sometime, but right. Um I'm definitely open to it, but my my focus has definitely been on writing for this myself.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

Sure, okay. Well, uh uh it's always curious to me because my first uh um interview with Bryce Long was here last year, and I asked Bryce that very question. I said, Does it bother you? Because Bryce had two record deals. I don't know if y'all followed Bryce and know much about him, but incredibly talented, and we interviewed him yesterday. And if you were here, you heard the story. He's gonna have his own album coming out soon, his own work. Um, but for the last 20 years he's made a living pitching his songs to someone else. And I said, Does that bother you that you've taken your baby and let somebody else raise it in a sense? You know, take it and and and put it out there for the world to hear. And he said, Absolutely not, because there's some great checks came with those.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

Oh, yeah. I mean, if I had like Brandy Carlyle cut a song of mine, I would be wouldn't that be cool?

SPEAKER_01 19:01

Yeah, yeah. So speaking of Brandy, uh obviously you've mentioned her a couple of times, she's been an influence on your music. Um have you had a chance to work with any of those heroes that you really looked up to?

SPEAKER_02 19:13

I have. Not Brandy, but um a couple years ago I was touring with KT Tunstall. Do you guys know her? Yeah, she was so sweet. We did a couple legs of um touring together, and then actually in Portland, um, I think it was New Year's 2023, um, she was coming into town, and Brandy was putting on a big uh New Year's Eve show at the Motor Center, our big amphitheater there, and KT was opening. And so my little devilish self, um, I just texted KT because we were on texting terms, pretty cool. And I was like, Hey, I see that you're coming to town. Um wink wink, if you need any backup singers, let me know. And she's like, Oh, Haley, I'd love to have you on stage. Why don't you come up and sing an indigo girls song with me? So I did get to sing with KT, opening for Brandy Carlisle, but I didn't get to meet Brandy, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_04 20:06

Very good.

SPEAKER_02 20:06

But that was still a cool experience. Yeah, yeah, meet meeting your heroes, and uh, I don't know if you guys are familiar with Alan Stone, he's a Seattle artist. We've done some collaborations together, he's uh he's amazing, played his festival.

SPEAKER_01 20:20

So, anyone, if you could work with anyone, living or dead, dead ones are hard to work with, but but uh who ideally who would who would you love to work with? Like songwriter, just no, just your your pick, songwriters, uh artists.

SPEAKER_02 20:39

Um I would say she's not dead, um, but I would say Linda Ronstadt.

SPEAKER_01 20:45

Oh, yeah, love. I I grew up in the 70s and listened to if I could just hang out with her and yeah. She so there is actually someone who does a tour. You remind me of Linda last night when I was listening to your one of your songs.

SPEAKER_04 21:00

Oh yeah?

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Yeah, you have a little of that Linda Ronstadt vibe.

SPEAKER_04 21:02

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_01 21:03

And so, but that made me think because uh she's coming there, yeah, she's coming to Idle Falls in a couple weeks to do uh Linda Ronstadt revival uh show.

SPEAKER_02 21:13

Is she singing again?

SPEAKER_01 21:14

Not not Linda, this this other gal who does uh Linda Ronstadt. So I'm going and I'm gonna and I'm gonna interview her because she's I love Linda Ronstadt.

SPEAKER_02 21:23

Yeah, I'm just such a big fan of like the divas of that that era. Sure. I mean Pleatwood Mac and uh Carly Simon and all these ladies.

SPEAKER_01 21:33

Yeah. Any any questions from the audience this morning? Here we go.

SPEAKER_00 21:37

Yes. So I started watching American Idol, but now I think the voice is so much better than the musicians or the offer, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Well on American Idol, uh when I r I got to rehearse once with the house band, and they kind of told me I wanted to do my song a different way, and they were very much like, nope, we're doing it this way. So for for in my experience, and I also was like very green and not very confident and like had never performed on a giant stage before, so I didn't really have I didn't tell them. I wasn't like I'd put my foot down. Um but yeah, I don't really know how it goes on the on the voice and all that. Yeah. I mean, if you're working with professional musicians, like you they can change keys easily and make it work.

SPEAKER_01 22:56

Well, you're you're a guitar player. I I'm a wannabe guitar player, right? So but but but I'm I'm I'm amazed at guitar players. If those of you who are here last year got to see Pat, uh Pat McGrath is he's a session player from Nashville, and he came and played for um uh uh Joe. Well, Joe, and also for uh um uh Marla, Canon Goodman. And and he's amazing. And but those guys literally can play anything. In fact, who did we just interview? We talked to somebody, and I wanted to say it was here, about us being in a recording studio with those that those guys they don't even listen to the whole song. They just go, yeah, we got this, and then they go with it. So it's why.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Oh, it was why even the hogslop guys, you know, they just jump up and they're like, What what key is it in? All right, the blue's an E, we got it.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Do you ever have a uh admiration to move to Nashville?

SPEAKER_02 23:55

I've I've definitely thought about it. You know, we've talked about maybe uh my husband and I've talked about maybe taking some time and living there, but I don't know. I think it's also I can visit as much as I need to. We I have I'm a homeowner man in Portland. It's some staple down in there, but I live right by the airport.

SPEAKER_01 24:14

There are a lot of artists that do travel back and forth because the you know it's it's an expensive city to live in as well. Nashville is, but I I I've asked lots of artists this question too. Is Nashville the city where your musical dreams go to die? Because there are a lot of people, and you know, you you're yeah.

SPEAKER_02 24:31

I've had a lot of friends move there and try to do it, and not to say that it that would be my experience, but it's tough. It's a tough city.

SPEAKER_01 24:38

It's a tough city, and this is a tough business, really tough business. So, hey, we're running out of time, but will you grab this guitar and uh play us a song? Oh you set it up, tell us what you want to what you're gonna play.

SPEAKER_02 24:50

Shoot, what do you guys want to hear? Do I need to have this out a little bit more?

SPEAKER_01 24:56

No, I think we're we're oh god, hang on.

SPEAKER_02 25:02

All right, very in tune. Let's see. Um you know what? I think I'm gonna play a newer song of mine. This is unrecorded, and I played it once this weekend, but um, it's fresh for me. I just tracked this, and I'm very excited about it, and I feel like it's appropriate because it's a song about the love of music and how, in so many ways, the most spiritual moments of my life and the connection to a higher power or you know, God is through through song. Like that's how I got felt that connection in church. That's how I feel my connection when I get to sing, when I'm listening to music with friends. It's just I just love it. So we wrote a song about it, me and my friend Tim, and this is called Holy Water.

SPEAKER_03 26:05

All right, I remember driving with Johnny all summer long and the good times listening to Bonnie when the winter's coming on holy won't you know the eyes of a sweet song, and I don't ever want there's a peaceful easy feeling when we get it on, and in the hot times when we forget the meaning, we can find it a song. Hollywood of the sweetest, I don't ever want to come down. Yeah I'm just getting by the singing that chorus might be the closest to heaven. I'm gonna feel before I die Hall of the Sweet I don't ever wanna come down.

SPEAKER_01 29:39

Wow. Hey I hey before you put that in the rack, I need you to autograph her. Hey, I don't know about you guys, but that was a religious experience right there. Your vocals are amazing. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_02 29:52

Wow, appreciate you guys. Thank you for watching. Yeah, call the voice.

SPEAKER_01 29:56

Yeah. All right. Wow, that's awesome. Thank you so much. Hey, where can they find your music?

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Um, you guys can find my music on all the streaming Spotify Apple Music. Um follow me, follow along at Haley Johnson M-U-S on Instagram. Um, just spell my name right. H-A-L-E-Y, J O H N S E N.

SPEAKER_01 30:16

E-N. She's got a messed up name.

SPEAKER_02 30:18

I got a messed up name, guys. Sorry. It might ruin my career. I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 30:22

We we I doubt it. Um, we're gonna tip that over. No, I got it. All right. Um, we uh we look forward to following you ourselves. Make sure you follow this young lady. Click the subscribe button, follow her on all her socials, follow Musical Miles Podcast. If you want to see this podcast again, you lived it and experienced it, right? So someday you can come back and go, I was there, and here's my back of my head. Oh no, we don't we don't have anybody's back of their head today. We moved the camera, so but uh thank you so much for joining us. This has been a lot of fun. Um make sure you get with Miss Yanda and get her your uh address and number so we can and we will on the podcast in the show notes of every episode, guys, their music is there. So the links to their music, links to their social media. Uh we we try and link to their website. If they have a website, um we we we try and help promote your music. Big fan.

SPEAKER_02 31:18

Thank you so much. Appreciate you guys. All right.

SPEAKER_01 31:23

Hey, once again, thank you for joining us. Thank you to Slowburn. Thank you to Whitefish, thank you, Miss Carey. This has been awesome. Yes, thank you, thank you. We'll see you somewhere down the road. Audio surround.

SPEAKER_02 31:37

See you guys soon.

SPEAKER_01 31:39

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