{"id":235,"date":"2009-04-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:09:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:09:36","slug":"songs_and_stories_56_and_57_stryngs_atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_56_and_57_stryngs_atta\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #56 and #57: &#8220;Stryngs&#8221; Attached"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1047\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-235-1\" 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_stories56.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories56.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories56.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_stories56.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=235-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories56.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories56.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/musicians.php\" target=\"_blank\">American River Music Festival<\/a> last Fall, I found myself camped next to Martin Giles and &#8220;Strings&#8221;, part of the British folk band <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/stryngs\" target=\"_blank\">Stryngs<\/a>. Martin and Strings were touring the western U.S. and playing house concerts along the way. They joined our  late-nite song circle (which you can hear in <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/index.php?blog=2&amp;title=songs_and_stories_47_the_song_circle&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories #47&#8221;<\/a>) and a month later dropped by the house to spend a few days with the wife and I. We shared a memorable election night, played lots of music, and then finally settled down to business, doing the &#8220;kitchen-table&#8221; talk for this podcast.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/viewmorepics.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewAlbums&amp;friendID=43311192\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/stryings_album.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Strings, Chris Marchall, Derek Scurll, and Martin Giles<\/strong><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #56, Martin and Strings discuss their musical roots, the logistics of keeping a band on schedule, Martin&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&amp;friendId=43311192&amp;blogId=442505801\" target=\"_blank\">fear of spiders<\/a>, and Strings&#8217; day job as a psychologist. (Here&#8217;s a link to her new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Psychiatry-PRN-Principles-Reality-Steps\/dp\/0199561982\" target=\"_blank\">Psychiatry PRN: Principles, Reality, Next Steps<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories56.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221;<\/a> #56 (time = 29:13, size = 33.4 mb)<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #57, they play &#8220;(and tell the stories behind) &#8220;Frank&#8217;s Song&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/stryngs\" target=\"_blank\">The Thrill of Maintaining Momentum<\/a> (2003) and &#8220;Run My Pen Dry&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/stryngs2\" target=\"_blank\">Love and Other Vices<\/a> (2006).<\/p>\n<p>Click \u00a0to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories57.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #5<\/a>7 (time = 17:39, size = 20.2 mb)<\/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_56_and_57_stryngs_atta%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>At the American River Music Festival last Fall, I found myself camped next to Martin Giles and &#8220;Strings&#8221;, part of [&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-235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235","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=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}