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'n' roll style but gone all country with her new album "feels like home" and joins me exclusively. how are you? >> i'm good. >> a country girl? >> i've always been a country girl. i grew up in a town that had three -- that has three stoplights, all cotton fields. it's great. feels like home. >> i mean, you have this extra ordinary life. you're the cat with nine lives, aren't you? >> yeah. >> and now you've gone to nashville which in many ways is the obvious spiritual home for you, i would think. >> it is. i have a long relationship with nashville, but when i first got signed to a record deal, ...

>> some time i hear people saying nothing has changed, but for someone to grow up the way i grew up in the cotton fields of alabama to now be serving in the united states congress makes me want to tell them come and walk in my shoes. so i say so each one of us today, we must never, ever give up. we must never, ever give in. we must keep the faith and keep our eye on the prize. >> we have a long way to go, but our eyes are on the prize. joining me now are joy reid and joan walsh. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, reverend. >> thanks, rev. >> joy, what a day. but why is it so important t...

>> some time i hear people saying nothing has changed, but for someone to grow up the way i grew up in the cotton fields of alabama to now be serving in the united states congress makes me want to tell them come and walk in my shoes. so i say so each one of us today, we must never, ever give up. we must never, ever give in. we must keep the faith and keep our eye on the prize. >> we have a long way to go, but our eyes are on the prize. joining me now are joy reid and joan walsh. thank you both for being here. >> thanks, reverend. >> thanks, rev. >> joy, what a day. but why is it so important t...

Preached about. this moment in our history has been a long time coming, but the change has come. we are standing here in the shadow of abraham lincoln. 150 years after he issued the emancipation proclamation. and only 50 years after the historic march on washington for jobs and freedom. we have come a great distance in this country in the 50 years. but we still have a great distance to go before we fulfill the dream of martin luther king jr. sometime i hear people saying, nothing has changed. but for someone to grow up the way i grew up in the cotton fields of alabama, to now be

Fields, in the cotton fields. and during the movement. so i tried to -- try to tell humor, you know. >> it's probably how they survived. let me ask you. how difficult was it to get to make the movie? i understand it was always challenges and funds and all of that? >> it's always hard. i'm surprised i didn't hit you up. you're the only one i probably didn't hit up. it's difficult. it's difficult to get black cinema on screen. it's difficult to get any cinema on screen, especially black cinema. the studios say no, no, no, no, no, unless it's a specific type of cinema. but if it's something that ...