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Episode 9: Six Inches Outside

11/12/2026
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Where the hell was the song five minutes before somebody heard it?

In this Women’s Writes mini, Parker Welling follows that question from the dream that brought Emmylou Harris “Michelangelo” to the day Rhett Akins almost skipped a co-write, looked down, and found “Dirt on My Boots” on his own two feet. Along the way, she gets into Rodney Crowell’s “Great Whatever,” why a title can sit in your phone for years before it finally raises its hand, and why her favorite question in a co-write is “What’s the weirdest thing in your phone?”

What if even a solo write is a co-write between you and the song? And what if, after enough swings at pitches six inches outside, the muse knows exactly who to throw the weird ones to?

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