INSIDE ENTERTAINMENT
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8 2001
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA

--the show is cut up a bit, so I will do my best to put each peice in here:)--
HOST: Amanda Marshall shares some of her story..
AMANDA: The pressure! The pressure!
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HOST: Well Amanda Marshall's letting listeners see a different side of her. Amanda admits her fans might not know much about her, but she'd like to change that with her new cd.
AMANDA: If you want people to know, really, all aspects of your personality, um, then you have to make an effort to sort of step up and share that with them
HOST: We'll chat more with Amanda later on in the show
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HOST: Canada's Amanda Marshall is adding another chapter to her story book career. She just released her third cd "Everybody's Got A Story", and Inside E's David J. Roberts stopped by Amanda's Toronto studio to get the story
DAVID: Toronto vocalist Amanda Marshall is back with a new sound and a new album, but it's classic Amanda.
AMANDA: It's a departure from what I've done in the past, but it's a really coherent record. It feels like me. It sounds like the way I talk, it sounds like, you know, the way I think, so it feels, really, sort of, I feel really comfortable talking about it 'cause it feels like me.
DAVID: The title of the disc is Everybody's Got A Story. Amanda thought of the them during a conversation with her producer, and it even surprised her
AMANDA:..and I said very offhandidly, you know, everybody's got a story that could break your heart, and both of us just sort of seized on that, and thought, wow, that's really compelling! That's deep! And that, that became sort of our mantra for the rest of the record
DAVID: (standing next to a highway) Amanda Marshall will be hitting the road next year for her cross-Canada tour, and she just might be driving the tour bus herself. At the age of 29, Amanda *just got* her driver's license. But what took her so long?
AMANDA: Well let's just say there were some traumatic events surrounding the first three times I took the test.... (bends over laughing)
DAVID: True or not?
AMANDA: Aright! (laughs for like 5 minutes, avoiding the host) Yeah, really. What's a pedestrian between friends, really
DAVID: As far as stories go, this isn't the end for Amanda, but it already has a happy ending
AMANDA: I'm making music that's really close to my heart, and people seem to really, dig it. And that, I think that's sort of all you can ask for.
DAVID: In Toronto, David J. Roberts for Inside Entertainment