{"id":1515,"date":"2011-02-21T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=1515"},"modified":"2011-02-22T12:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T17:39:44","slug":"songs-and-stories-102-and-103-stephanie-bettman-and-luke-halpinalong-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-102-and-103-stephanie-bettman-and-luke-halpinalong-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #102 and #103: Stephanie Bettman and Luke Halpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2526\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1515-1\" 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_stories102.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories102.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories102.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_stories102.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=1515-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories102.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories102.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories102.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">episode #102<\/a> (time = 35:49, size = 16.5 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories103.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">episode #103<\/a> (time = 22:24, size = 10.4 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Another one to file under &#8220;cool people I&#8217;ve met along the way&#8221;. Or should I say *finally* met. I almost crossed paths with singer\/songwriters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniebettman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stephanie Bettman and Luke Halpin<\/a> several times the past few years (FAR-West, the occasional showcase) but it was always a near miss. We finally got together last fall here for a very fun visit at the house when they came by to do the kitchen-table talk thing.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniebettman.com\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1517\" title=\"stephanie\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/stephanie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"188\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Click for more photos<\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Part One&#8221; (Episode 102), we learn how Stephanie went from being an actor and writer to a trapeze artist&#8230;finally settling on a career in music (which was always there in the background anyway). We also find out about how Luke (a lifelong musician) and Stephanie officially became a duo on their newest release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephaniebettman.com\/music\/\">&#8220;It All Comes Back to Love&#8221;<\/a>. This episode includes a preview of the title track and &#8220;Buttonwillow&#8221; (a fine instrumental) from the new record.<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Part Two&#8221; (Episode 103), Stephanie and Luke play live. You&#8217;ll hear &#8220;Stiff Upper Lip&#8221; and their &#8220;spiritual medley&#8221;. The episode concludes with &#8220;The Sound of Time&#8221; from the new CD. It&#8217;s a gorgeous song (with a very poignant backstory) that just floored me when I heard it at their concert later that evening.<\/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-102-and-103-stephanie-bettman-and-luke-halpinalong-the-way%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 #102 (time = 35:49, size = 16.5 mb) Click to hear episode #103 (time = 22:24, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1531,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions\/1531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}