Naomi “Nomz” Bistline was one of Samuel Bateman's 23 "spiritual wives" — but after a stint in prison, she's coping with her past, one song at a time When Naomi “Nomz” Bistline initially auditioned to be in her prison’s band, she tried out to be the guitarist. “Then I started singing a little and they said, ‘Put the guitar down. Let’s just hear you sing,’” she says. “I sang Miley Cyrus’s song, ‘Flowers,’ a cappella. And they said ‘We got our lead vocalist.’” Though excited, Bistline, now 27, was apprehensive about performing in front of the other incarcerated women. “I remember that night going back to my cell and thinking, ‘This is so scary — I’ve never done this,’ and then coming to the conclusion that I’m the lowest that I’ve ever been,” she says. “I’m the lowest that anyone will be. Nobody has phones to video me and mock me or anything.…