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Dec 2022
15m 1s

Bailey Zimmerman

BAUER MEDIA
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Baylen catches up with one of country music's most exciting rising stars, Bailey Zimmerman, to learn how he went from stringing pipelines in the woods to playing a show with Luke Combs and climbing the country charts, even though he's new to singing and song-writing... 
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