{"id":153,"date":"2007-05-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-20T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:55:14","slug":"title_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/title_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories Podcast #6: Wanna Buy a &#8220;Spotted Mule&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6832\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-153-1\" 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_stories6.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories6.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories6.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_stories6.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=153-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories6.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories6.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories6.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">episode 6<\/a> (time = 26:16, size = 30.0 mb)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s amazing what one little bluegrass song about a mule can do for you. &#8220;Spotted Mule&#8221; pretty much wrote itself, became the title track to my CD, a video on YouTube, and people are still discovering it. My latest favorite quote is from a DJ in New Zealand who wrote me and said it was, &#8220;annoyingly memorable&#8221;. (He quickly wrote me again and said he meant that as a compliment.)<\/p>\n<p>Well folks, Icing, the spotted mule herself, is now up for sale. We didn&#8217;t buy her, but it was tempting. (Or as I told my wife, &#8220;Good thing we don&#8217;t have land. Or money.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>In this podcast, you&#8217;ll hear some background on the song *and* an interview with Krista Koenig, Icing&#8217;s owner\/trainer. Krista is a walking encyclopedia on natural horsemanship and training. In this podcast, she explains how she&#8217;s spent her whole life training horses, when mules came along, and how training mules has made her a better horse trainer. <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/icing.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nHere are some links to go with the show. I mention these in the podcast: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/music\" target=\"_blank\">My music page<\/a>, where you can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/music\/index.html#Anchor-Spotte-9744\" target=\"_blank\">lyrics<\/a> to &#8220;Spotted Mule&#8221;, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bz2jN7QDt_4\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> for the song, or purchase &#8220;Spotted Mule and Other Tales&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Spotted-Other-Tales-michael-Gaither\/dp\/B000GBEBLM\/ref=sr_1_1\/102-7230419-5219323?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1179280778&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon.com<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w0lU9j9gzuc\" target=\"_blank\">Watch our band play Spotted Mule live on KPIG radio<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kersur.net\/~santa\/natural.html\" target=\"_blank\">The definition of &#8220;natural horsemanship&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamhorse.com\/show_horse.php?form_horse_id=983722\" target=\"_blank\">Icing&#8217;s page on Dreamhorse.com<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Author\/trainer\/mule packer Jim Brumfield&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/trespicospress.com\/across.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Across the High Lonesome&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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%2Ftitle_1%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 6 (time = 26:16, size = 30.0 mb) It&#8217;s amazing what one little bluegrass song about [&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-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}