{"id":267,"date":"2009-09-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:04:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:04:43","slug":"songs_and_stories_71_and_72_john_batdorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_71_and_72_john_batdorf\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #71 and #72: A Kitchen-Table Chat with John Batdorf"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3336\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-267-1\" 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_stories71.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories71.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories71.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_stories71.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=267-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories71.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories71.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>I love the ambient sounds (cars, birds, trees and wind) that gets picked up in many of these interviews, but I think the best episodes still take place literally around my kitchen table. There&#8217;s something about talking around a table with a guitar in hand that just seems like a natural fit. (Plus, the acoustics are nice.)<\/p>\n<p>In this &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; two-parter, we meet <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatdorfmusic.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Batdorf<\/a>, a southern California songwriter who started with a recording contract in the &#8217;70s as half of the duo <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatdorfmusic.com\/brhistory.html\" target=\"_blank\">Batdorf and Rodney<\/a>. John spent the &#8217;80s as a staff writer for other artists (including America and Kim Carnes), and in the &#8217;90s began composing for commercials and television (&#8220;Promised Land&#8221;, &#8220;Touched By An Angel&#8221;.) Everything comes full circle, though. After an XM DJ copied John&#8217;s records onto MP3 and started playing them on the air, the &#8220;Batdorf and Rodney&#8221; fans took notice. And they wanted to hear more. These days John is back in singer\/songwriter mode and <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatdorfmusic.com\/calendar.html\" target=\"_blank\">playing live<\/a> again.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatdorfmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/batdorf.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In episode #71, John explains the path he took from recording artist to working behind the scenes for other artists, to writing and recording for himself again. <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories71.mp3\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #71<\/a> (time = 30:38, size = 28.2 mb)<\/p>\n<p>In episode #72, John plays and tells the stories behind &#8220;What D&#8217;Ya Got&#8221; and &#8220;That Don&#8217;t Seem Right To Me&#8221; off <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbatdorfmusic.com\/images\/OldManDreamin400x361.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Old Man Dreamin&#8217;<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories72.mp3\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #72<\/a> (time = 24:16, size = 22.3 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_71_and_72_john_batdorf%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 love the ambient sounds (cars, birds, trees and wind) that gets picked up in many of these interviews, but [&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-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","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=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}