. - and she's hoping jill angel will help. angel might seem an unlikely choice.as in the california highway patrol for 23 years, retiring as an assistant chief. she won this award for being the toughest cop alive. her only connection to the music business was her cousin ilene, a struggling songwriter in nashville. - ok, well, what songs are we gonna pitch? i jumped. i really jumped. there was no business plan. there was... music just lit me up and ilene's music lit me up. i couldn't figure out how nothing had ever happened with her songs, and i went to nashville. i'd never been to nashville. i think--are we actually agreeing? - are we agreeing? you agree with me? - i started calling heads of record labels and getting meetings with them. i didn't know that that's not how you do it. - she got in to see people that i couldn't because, of course, i knew in my mind who they were and it was a big producer or record label or whatever it was. and she was able to just-- she had no intimidation factor. - ♪ i don't think about it, i don't think... ♪ - angel finally sold one

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