Rosie Waterland
speaker
14,460 appearances
17 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Rosie Waterland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 17 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 8.
Appearances
She and Bill would get like a 20 hour bus ride to Nashville
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And that's like the capital of Tennessee, but it's also like the country music capital
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world.
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And so they would spend like weekends just walking up and down the sort of main street, going to venues and radio stations, giving them her record, asking if she could sing, just, just hoping to get her foot in the door somewhere.
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Bill tries to get Dolly on the line up at the Grand Ole Opry, which is like the most famous country music venue in the world, and they would have, you know, not so much open mic nights but people who were up and coming.
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They'd have nights where there was like nine or ten people would come out and perform.
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He tried to get her in there.
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She sings for them.
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They say she's very good but they think she's too young because
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she's around, you know, 13.
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But one weekend Bill has a friend on the line up
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And he convinces his friend to give up his spot for Dolly.
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they just kind of sneak in
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she meets Johnny Cash before the show.
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Cause he's introducing
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artists and he tells her to just like, you know, she's really talented, keep it up.
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So he introduces her and she performs on stage at the Grand Ole Opry at 13 years old.
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She says she tore the house down.
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Um, and although, um, she knew she wanted to be a country music singer.
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