{"id":1386,"date":"2011-01-17T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=1386"},"modified":"2011-02-21T18:22:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:22:04","slug":"songs-and-stories-101-antsy-mcclain-heroes-and-vinyl-last-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-101-antsy-mcclain-heroes-and-vinyl-last-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #101 &#8211; Antsy McClain: &#8220;Heroes (and Vinyl) Last Forever&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3494\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1386-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories101b.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories101b.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories101b.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories101b.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=1386-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories101b.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories101b.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories101b.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">episode #101<\/a> (time = 51:05, size = 23.5 mb)<\/p>\n<p>We kick off the first episode  of the year with Antsy McClean, lead singer\/songwriter of <a href=\"http:\/\/unhitched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Trailer Park Troubadours<\/a> and longtime friend of the &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; podcast. Antsy and I first chatted way back in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/archives\/246\">episodes #51 and #52,<\/a> when he&#8217;d just finished his &#8220;New Gold Old Days&#8221; record. It was a great couple of talks, but you might recall that audio conditions (echo-y back rooms in the Rio Theater and a have-no-mercy wind outside KPIG radio) really did a number on chats we recorded. We&#8217;ve been talking ever since about getting together for another one of these. And we finally did.<\/p>\n<p>This one&#8217;s a real &#8220;no agenda&#8221; kind of kitchen-table talk. Antsy and I just wanted to shoot the breeze, and I really wanted to talk to Antsy about his DIY (do-it-yourself) approach to his music, web site, and everything else he can get his hands on. We talk a little about songwriting, a bit about the economics of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/tour.dates.html\" target=\"_blank\">touring<\/a> and playing with regional bands, and how his latest album, <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.unhitched.com\/product.sc?productId=277&amp;categoryId=2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Heroes Last Forever&#8221;<\/a>, which is available on CD and a limited-edition vinyl release, was recorded on one of his field trips overnight at the legendary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunrecords.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Record<\/a>s in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/shop.unhitched.com\/category.sc?categoryId=2\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1391\" title=\"heroes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/heroes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Note: Antsy and I bounce between a *lot* of different topics in this one. As promised (and in no particular order), here are links to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zr5iHQsn8io\" target=\"_blank\">The Bathroom Songwriter&#8221;<\/a>, Antsy&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/podcast.html\" target=\"_blank\">podcasts<\/a>, and some info about his upcoming field trips (which include the second annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/WOODFLOCK_2011.html\" target=\"_blank\">Woodflock<\/a> weekend in Red Bluff, California.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs-and-stories-101-antsy-mcclain-heroes-and-vinyl-last-forever%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to hear episode #101 (time = 51:05, size = 23.5 mb) We kick off the first episode of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1401,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386\/revisions\/1401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}