<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Elton is joined by the country singer and Apple Music Country radio host Fancy Hagood. They discuss the under-represented country voices on Fancy&#8217;s &#8216;Trailblazers Radio&#8217; show, his debut album &#8216;Southern Curiosity&#8217;, and his latest musical direction.</p>



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<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Tune in and listen to the episode in-full this Saturday (September 3rd) at 9am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm BST at <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://apple.co/_RocketHour" target="_blank">apple.co/_RocketHour</a>. In the meantime, here&#8217;s a sneak peek at the interview between these two icons: </p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph"><strong>Elton John and Fancy Hagood on Mickey Guyton, Brandi Carlile and more trailblazers</strong></p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">FANCY HAGOOD: There&#8217;s been a lot of things happening here in Nashville with different minority groups having the spotlight and getting a chance to tell their story. And I think Mickey Guyton is just such a fabulous queen. Something that has inspired me about Mickey is she&#8217;s been in this town for a long time, just like a lot of us. And she&#8217;s having this moment. And the thing that I find most inspiring about, her talent&#8217;s always been right there, but the thing that is so cool is her heart is being displayed because she&#8217;s bringing so many other artists that I&#8217;ve gotten to learn about Brittney Spencer and Madeline Edwards. So many different people I didn&#8217;t know about, different artists I didn&#8217;t know about, but because Mickey&#8217;s having this moment and she&#8217;s bringing people with her, it&#8217;s really cool. And it inspires me to want to do that within my own community, within the queer community. Kind of just be able to shine a light where maybe that hasn&#8217;t been the case before.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">ELTON JOHN: Well, bravo for you for doing that, especially in a place like Nashville. But I&#8217;ve noticed over the years that Nashville music has begun to change. Brandi Carlile is a huge fan of mine. Not that she&#8217;s from Nashville. And by the way, she sends her love to you because she knew I was going to speak to you today. We need more people like her and you to make sure that we get our voices out into the open. And I can&#8217;t thank you enough for doing that. You&#8217;re just being who you are. We need people be who they are and not be afraid to it, and have people like you to encourage him. Bravo, my darling, you&#8217;re such a sweetheart.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">FANCY HAGOOD: Oh thank you. I&#8217;ve learned in this industry, it&#8217;s really hard, sometimes. You get told that there&#8217;s only one seat at the table for someone like you. And it&#8217;s easy to believe that when you&#8217;re in the thick of it, but something I&#8217;ve learned is the second you believe there&#8217;s only one seat, you&#8217;ve given your seat away. And I think there&#8217;s as many seats at the table for everyone.</p>