audience respond and i want to make sure they know i am not kidding, because that first hid, laura brannigano live without you" and all of a sudden the publishers and song writerness that business were coming to me for the first time instead of me chasing the industry. i realized i could have a song writing career on the side, which is really important because it taught me how important the music is, the songs are for artists to have long, enduring careers. whether i recorded "georgia on my mind" and eventually got to sing it with ray two times, sang it to him once, which is so surreal. "when a man loves a woman," i got to sing with percy cross. i don't need to write everything myself. you know, someone says, listen to this classic, i think you could make it your own and just have a great time with it, i love doing that, and i learned that i can do that and i have permission to do that. but as song writing actually really delivered food and a shelter for my family. >> yeah. i want to talk in a moment about the fact that you don't have to write the song to sing it, given your new project "son