{"id":262,"date":"2009-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:05:53","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:05:53","slug":"songs_and_stories_68_the_john_cowan_inte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_68_the_john_cowan_inte\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #68: The John Cowan Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9385\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-262-1\" 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_stories68.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories68.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories68.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_stories68.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=262-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories68.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories68.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories68.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #68<\/a> (time = 30:00, size = 12.5 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Singer\/bassist John Cowan is best known to long-time fans as the bass player and co-lead vocalist (along with <a href=\"http:\/\/sambush.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sam Bush<\/a>) in the progressive bluegrass band <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_Grass_Revival\" target=\"_blank\">Newgrass Revival<\/a> (1974 &#8211; 1981). Since NGR&#8217;s final show opening for the Grateful Dead on New Year&#8217;s Eve in 1989, Cowan has played with various NGR alumni in various incarnations and has done a lot of session work in Nashville. He&#8217;s probably best known, however, for his own John Cowan Band, which you&#8217;ll get to listen to here in episode #68 of &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>In this special interview recorded outside Don Quixote&#8217;s Music Hall in Felton, CA, Cowan talks about his musical influences, which include everyone from the Dead to Charlie Parker. Cowan also talks about his latest band and his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=john+cowan&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming September release<\/a>, &#8220;8742 Feet&#8221;, a compilation of performances through the years at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluegrass.com\/telluride\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Telluride Bluegrass Festival<\/a>.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncowan.com\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/John_Cowan.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>After all that, we&#8217;ll head back inside Don Quixote&#8217;s as Cowan and his band run through Bill Monroe&#8217;s &#8220;Cabin On the Hill&#8221; and Tony Rice&#8217;s &#8220;Gasology&#8221;, along with some pretty funny stage banter. <\/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_68_the_john_cowan_inte%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 &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #68 (time = 30:00, size = 12.5 mb) Singer\/bassist John Cowan is best known [&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-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","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=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}