{"id":253,"date":"2009-05-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:08:40","slug":"title_7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/title_7\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #60 and #61: Jay Howlett sees &#8220;Carnival Lights&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1754\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-253-1\" 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_stories60.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories60.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories60.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_stories60.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=253-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories60.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories60.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Bay area audiences know award-winning songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblahwoofwoof.com\/jayhome.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Howlett<\/a> both as part of the songwriting collective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblahwoofwoof.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BlahBlahWoofWoof<\/a> and a solo performer in his own right. In this kitchen-table talk, Jay and I talk about his upcoming release &#8220;Carnival Lights&#8221;, how BlahBlahWoofWoof formed, other songwriters such as <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/index.php?blog=2&amp;title=songs_and_stories_51_and_52_antsy_mcclai&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Brodsky<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/index.php?blog=2&amp;title=songs_and_stories_37_and_38_chuck_mccabe&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck McCabe<\/a>, his association with <a href=\"http:\/\/breedlovemusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Breedlove Guitars<\/a>, and the alternate-tuning sounds he gets by using multiple capos. <\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> Jay will be doing a special &#8220;Carnival Lights&#8221; CD-release party at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblahwoofwoof.com\/concertseries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mobu Dance Studio<\/a> on Saturday, June 27th. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblahwoofwoof.com\/concertseries.html\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for more info.)<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blahblahwoofwoof.com\/jayhome.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/carnival.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #60, Jay and I discuss the pros and cons of &#8220;multiple instrumentation&#8221; vs &#8220;underproducing&#8221; a CD and talk about the unique approach he&#8217;s taken to this current project. (He&#8217;s recording material for multiple CDs in one long recording stretch.) <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories60.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #60<\/a> (time = 39:52, size = 36.6 mb)<\/p>\n<p>In &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #61, Jay gives us a &#8220;Carnival Lights&#8221; preview, playing (and telling the stories behind) &#8220;Long Black Dress&#8221; and &#8220;King of the Parking Lot&#8221;. (Jay also explains the multiple-capo positions in both songs.) <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories61.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #61<\/a> (time = 22:55, size = 21.1 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%2Ftitle_7%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>Bay area audiences know award-winning songwriter Jay Howlett both as part of the songwriting collective BlahBlahWoofWoof and a solo performer [&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-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}