everything unfold it was a terrible day unbelievable you're one of only three women to win the c.m.a. female vocalist of the year for times joined the grand ole opry in ninety five so you are able to surprise yourself with your success oh absolutely all the time yeah i grew up on a farm in kansas and a very very small town of about two hundred people and i had ten people in my graduating class i mean i was just really in ma. so but i've always known that this is what i wanted to do i've saying you know my whole life and wanted to to make records and perform and saying for people and so but it's like when i look back at what i've what all the things that i've experienced and done always you break my break came i moved to nashville and. and we always waiting tables and singing demos and my husband was production manager for garth brooks at the time and so i went out and sold t. shirts for garth so much and i was trying to get a record deal and got to know him that way and then when i got my record deal he gave me a spot on his tour opening as the opening act for seventy seven shows not a bad b