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Podcast: The Unstarving Musician
Episode: 80 From Writing Her First Song to Going Pro – Sylvia Rose Novak
Description: Singer songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Sylvia Rose Novak grew up in Opalika Alabama, a place I'd never heard of before our conversation. I asked her what it was like growing up in the South, and she said it was a little weird. I gathered from some reading that she didn't exactly fit in. She's still based in Alabama, so I know she didn't and doesn't find it a bad place. It's her home. By my own doing our conversation meanders into the personal. We talk about going from writing her first song to becoming a career musician, her...