{"id":255,"date":"2009-06-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:07:49","slug":"songs_and_stories_64_and_65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_64_and_65\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #64 and #65: Dana Hubbard &#8211; Living On Six Strings and Four Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2482\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-255-1\" 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_stories64.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories64.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories64.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_stories64.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=255-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories64.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories64.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>I met <a href=\"http:\/\/danahubbard.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dana Hubbard<\/a> (first heard here 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\">Songs and Stories #47<\/a>) last Fall when he played the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/festival.php\" target=\"_blank\">American River Music Festival<\/a> in Coloma, CA (where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/musicians.php\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m playing this year<\/a>, BTW.) Dana spent the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s making a full-time living playing the bay area &#8220;clubs and corporate&#8221; scene. As that began to fade, Dana rediscovered his love for fingerpicking and solo playing. These days he <a href=\"http:\/\/danahubbard.com\/shows.html\" target=\"_blank\">travels<\/a> (and primarily lives in) a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportsmobile.com\/2_sr_vaninfo07.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sprinter RV<\/a>, hitting festivals and venues along the way.<\/p>\n<p>In this &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; two-parter, Dana talks about the festival circuit, what lead to the dimming of the club circuit, the pros and cons (mostly pros) of RV life, and his latest release, <a href=\"http:\/\/danahubbard.com\/cdtgk.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Grounds Keepers&#8221;<\/a>. Note: On Saturday, 7\/18, I&#8217;ll be playing an in-the-round with Dana and our pal <a href=\"http:\/\/gregkitchel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Kitchel<\/a> at The Acoustic Barn in Newcastle, CA. Contact <a href=\"mailto:kodell@shra.org\">Kevin<\/a> by email for reservations.  <\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/danahubbard.com\/cds.html\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/tgkthumb.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In episode #64, Dana talks about his move from running a band to becoming a solo performer and what led him to travel around in an RV. <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories64.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #64<\/a> (time = 27:30, size = 25.35 mb)<\/p>\n<p>In episode #65, Dana plays (and tells the stories behind) the songs &#8220;Woody&#8217;s Guitar&#8221; and Pretty Little Farmer&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories65.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #65<\/a> (time = 27:30, size = 25.35 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_64_and_65%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>I met Dana Hubbard (first heard here in Songs and Stories #47) last Fall when he played the American River [&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-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","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=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}