“We found our own Taylor Swift right here in Wisconsin” on Maggie Daun Show

You have a big party at your house, where everybody screams and shouts, you act so cool

as you're on the team, for really are just playing me.

What is up everybody? Happy Friday. We made it.

Each week seems a little longer than the one before at these days.

I don't know about you. I'm always relieved to get to Friday going out for the classic

Milwaukee fish fry with my folks tonight. I'm always enjoying that.

And I especially enjoy looking forward to every Friday with my colleague Terry

Barr for what's good local and overlooked in Wisconsin. Happy Friday.

Terry, how are you?

Oh, Maggie, I agree. Hello everybody. Happy Friday.

Yes, these weeks, especially after the holiday, you feel like you're running and running

and running and you can't catch up, but we all get that feeling.

And that's why I'm glad we can do a little happiness on Friday at the end of your show.

Yeah, it's been I've done the whole hour or more on like the lighter end of the spectrum.

Terry and just before you came on, I was telling people all about the house on the rock

because it's kind of it's kind of a fun thing to do because it's so random.

And it's like it's cold out. If you want to just kind of go for a ride and check out

some weird Wisconsin attraction, like the house on the rock fits the bill.

Have you been there, my friend?

Oh, I've been there many times. I cannot get enough of it because you feel every time you go,

you discover something even more interesting than the last.

Absolutely. It's one of those things.

It's like the movie usual suspects. Like every time I watch it, I pick up something else from it.

It's just endlessly entertaining.

One of our textures, Judy from Lodi texting in from WAUK also is a huge house on the rock fan.

So hello to you, Judy. Thank you for listening and texting.

What you got for us this week, Terry?

Well, you just heard a little clip of it as we were coming out of the commercial break.

I was wondering.

Hi, your listeners may know that I am so lucky at co-host our Max Inc. Music radio show every weekend.

And we had at 11 year old Wisconsin girl who just released her debut album.

Her name is Paige Cleaver.

And Paige is, I know she's from Verona.

She writes her own songs.

And she writes about big topics sometimes too.

She writes about bullying.

And it was based on an episode in her class.

And she took the song and played it for her class.

How is that for saying?

Wow.

I'm not going to put up with this.

Wow.

She wrote about the election.

And the chorus in her song was, we are not going back.

I like Paige already. What is up Paige?

You got a fan in me.

And she writes about love.

Now again, she's 11.

Do you want to listen to any more of her songs?

Of course I do, Terry.

Okay.

So let's play a little bit more.

This is Paige Cleaver, 11 years old.

Here's one of her songs.

You have a big party at your house.

Where everybody screams and shouts.

You act so cool because you're on the team.

You really are just playing me.

Let's face it, have you ever talked to me?

That's first gray note, babe.

You know what I want from you.

Do you know what you want from me?

I just want you.

Wow.

That's kind of deep.

Do you know what you want from me?

Why are you giving me such a hard time?

What's your problem is what she's saying, but really nicely.

That's incredibly impressive.

Incredibly impressive.

We found our own Taylor Swift right here in Wisconsin.

Heck yeah.

I love this.

I am so excited to be able to share that song,

to share Paige's story with you.

Do you have a link, Terry?

That we could put in the show notes from today.

If anybody wants to listen to a couple more pages, tunes.

Lovely.

Yes.

In fact, I will send that so you can make sure to put that in there.

But she has her own website where you can listen to her music.

Her name is spelled Paige,

P-A-I-G-E,

and then Kleber is spelled K-L-E-B-E-R.

Here's the next thing.

She's now on the National Anthem Circuit.

We didn't even know this when we talked to her just a week ago.

She just did the National Anthem at the Bucks Game in Milwaukee.

Wow.

This girl is going places.

She is going places.

She wants to sing at the Brewers,

and I knew that would make you and I both very happy.

Of course.

Her big goal is to move to Nashville after high school,

and she is going to win a bunch of Grammys.

I love that.

Best of luck to you Paige.

We'll put her website link in the show notes from today's show.

You can always find it at civicmedia.us.

Backslash shows.

Backslash, Maggie Don Show.

You can check that out.

I'm going to listen to some of her stuff.

Plus, I love the way how pure and unscrewed up young people's voices are.

They haven't quite destroyed their vocal cords yet.

She's not having that little vocal buzz at the end.

Very impressive.

I'm so happy to share.

Just listening to her sing makes me smile,

so I hope it makes all of you smile as well.

11 years old, writing her own songs,

playing her own guitar,

and she knows where she wants to go.

It's amazing.

That's what I needed this Friday.