{"id":246,"date":"2009-02-07T09:31:07","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T14:31:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:12:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:12:21","slug":"ansty_interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/ansty_interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #51 and #52: Antsy McClain of The Trailer Park Troubadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5591\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-246-1\" 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_stories51.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories51.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories51.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_stories51.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=246-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories51.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories51.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>This very cool &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; two-parter features chats with Antsy McClain, lead singer, songwriter (and fellow podcaster) of the Americana band the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer Park Troubadours<\/a>. I&#8217;m finding myself overusing the phrase &#8220;gold standard&#8221; lately, but Antsy fits the bill. He&#8217;s just darned good at it. Antsy&#8217;s also a heck of a lot of fun to hang out and talk shop with, as you&#8217;ll soon discover.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/ngod.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In episode #51, we talk backstage at the Rio Theater in Santa Cruz on the night of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unhitched.com\/NEW.ALBUMS.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New Good Old Days&#8221;<\/a> release party. We discuss the trailer motif that runs through much of his music and how he came into songwriting as a visual artist. Antsy also describes how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpig.com\" target=\"_blank\">KPIG<\/a> radio and the late Laura Ellen Hopper saved the Troubadors &#8211; in much the same way Paul Thorn described to me back in <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/index.php?blog=2&amp;title=songs_and_stories_12_a_talk_with_paul_th&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #12<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories51.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #51<\/a>.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn episode #52, we meet up at KPIG radio a few weeks later. Ansty plays &#8220;Right Side of the Dirt&#8221; and &#8220;New Good Old Days&#8221; off the new record, and explains the &#8220;laughing in the face of death&#8221; idea that runs through the CD. <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories52.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #52<\/a>.<\/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%2Fansty_interview%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>This very cool &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; two-parter features chats with Antsy McClain, lead singer, songwriter (and fellow podcaster) of the [&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-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":904,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}