{"id":1569,"date":"2011-03-07T17:37:33","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T22:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2011-03-09T14:41:12","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T19:41:12","slug":"songs-and-stories-104-vicki-thorn-simpson-of-the-waifs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-104-vicki-thorn-simpson-of-the-waifs\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #104: Vicki (Thorn) Simpson of The Waifs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4840\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1569-1\" 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_stories104.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories104.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories104.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_stories104.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=1569-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories104.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories104.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories104.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">episode #104<\/a> (time = 27:51, size = 12.9 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere near the upper\/middle\/top of that huge list titled &#8220;my favorite bands&#8221; is a trio of Australian folks known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaifs.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Waifs<\/a>. Made up of songwriters Donna and Vikki Simpson (yup, they&#8217;re sisters) and Josh Cunningham, the band made their Santa Cruz debut at one of KPIG radio&#8217;s &#8220;Texas Uprising&#8221; shows many years ago. With great harmonies and songwriting, backed by Josh&#8217;s nifty fretwork and Vikki&#8217;s harmonica, they&#8217;ve since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaifs.com\/tours.html\">toured<\/a> the world, continually playing in bigger and bigger venues.<\/p>\n<p>At one point they cancelled a small set of shows to hit the road and open for some guy named Bob Dylan. Here in the west, they&#8217;ve also made more than one or two appearances at some of the bigger festivals such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strawberrymusic.com\/\">The Strawberry Music Festival<\/a> in Groveland CA and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katewolf.com\/festival\/\">The Kate Wolf Festival<\/a> in Laytonville CA.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaifs.com\/gallery.html\" target=\"_blank\"><figure id=\"attachment_1573\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1573\" style=\"width: 228px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1573\" title=\"waifs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/waifs-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/waifs-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/waifs.jpg 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1573\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click for more Waifs pics<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The three of them now officially live here in the states. They&#8217;re scattered a bit (literally&#8230;it takes some doing to get together and play and record). And though they&#8217;ve taken a short hiatus or two to have families and settle down, they&#8217;re still very much a band.<\/p>\n<p>I talked to Vikki a few months back when she, Donna, and Josh were preparing a short tour to work up some new material. That material is now available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewaifs.com\/temptation.html\" target=\"_blank\">Temptation<\/a>, their latest release.<\/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-104-vicki-thorn-simpson-of-the-waifs%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 #104 (time = 27:51, size = 12.9 mb) Somewhere near the upper\/middle\/top of that huge list [&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-1569","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\/1569","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=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}