{"id":170,"date":"2007-10-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2018-02-26T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T21:40:11","slug":"songs_and_stories_17_texas_songwriters_p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_17_texas_songwriters_p\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #17: Texas Songwriters Part 1 &#8211; Darden Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9228\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-170-1\" 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_stories17.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories17.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories17.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_stories17.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=170-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories17.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories17.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories17.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Episode #17<\/a> (time = 20:15, size = 23.8 mb)<\/p>\n<p>The next few episodes of &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; will be interviews with three very different Texas songwriters. In a couple of weeks, we&#8217;ll be talking with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patricepike.com\/ECARD\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patrice Pike<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colingilmore.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colin Gilmore<\/a>. In this edition, we chat with Darden Smith.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/darden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"122\" border=\"0\" \/>Darden talks about the epiphany of discovering what a songwriter is &#8211; in his case, it was Neil Young&#8217;s &#8220;Harvest&#8221; and &#8220;After the Goldrush&#8221; albums, the differences between Texas, narrative-style songwriting (Guy Clark, Willie Nelson) versus the English pop songs (Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe) that are driven by a lyrical or musical hook, and the craft of writing songs (&#8220;you have to finish them&#8230;.it&#8217;s like making furniture&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to go with the show. I mention these in the podcast:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dardensmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darden Smith&#8217;s official site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_m\/103-1558850-1767825?initialSearch=1&amp;url=search-alias%3Dpopular&amp;field-keywords=darden+smith&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">Darden Smith&#8217;s CDs<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultimate-guitar.com\/tabs\/n\/neil_young\/harvest_crd.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Chords and lyrics to Neil Young&#8217;s &#8220;Harvest&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guitaretab.com\/c\/costello-elvis\/4082.html\" target=\"_blank\">Chords and lyrics to Elvis Costello&#8217;s &#8220;The Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boohewerdine.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boo Hewerdine<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-855\" title=\"subscribe-with-itunes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"159\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_17_texas_songwriters_p%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 #17 (time = 20:15, size = 23.8 mb) The next few episodes of &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; [&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-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7111,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/7111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}