{"id":268,"date":"2009-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:03:23","slug":"songs_and_stories_75_will_the_real_johns_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_75_will_the_real_johns_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #75: &#8220;Will the real Johnsmith&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Click to hear <a href=\"..\/..\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories75.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #75<\/a> (time = 32:14, size = 29.5 mb)<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t see the words &#8220;bard&#8221; or &#8220;genius&#8221; used to describe just anybody, but those are only a few of the glowing compliments that Musicologist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/PJ-Curtis\/e\/B001K7NUYA\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1\" target=\"_blank\">PJ Curtis<\/a> uses in <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsmithmusic.com\/bio\" target=\"_blank\">his overview<\/a> of songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsmithmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Johnsmith<\/a> (capital &#8220;j&#8221;, small &#8220;s&#8221;) Johnsmith is based in Wisconsin and usually makes only one trek a year out here to the west coast. It&#8217;s that time again. Johnsmith will be here soon for a number of shows, including stops at some of my favorite house concerts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Friday, October 23rd: The Acoustic Barn (New Castle, CA). Contact <a href=\"mailto:kodell@shra.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin by email<\/a> for reservations.<\/li>\n<li>Saturday, October 24th: Canyon Acoustic Society (Aromas, CA). Contact <a href=\"mailto:canyonguitars@hotmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Marky by email<\/a> for reservations.<\/li>\n<li>October 25th to 30th, &#8220;Songwriting from the Heart&#8221;, a weeklong workshop at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esalen.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Esalen Institute<\/a> in Big Sur.<\/li>\n<li>Sunday, November 1st: TrueWind Music (Campbell, CA). Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truewindmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">truewindmusic.com<\/a> for reservations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johnsmithmusic.com\/promo\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/johnsmith_01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>In this phone interview, John talks about recording his new record, <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsmithmusic.com\/cdview\/Gravity%20Of%20Grace\" target=\"_blank\">Gravity of Grace<\/a>, his <a href=\"http:\/\/johnsmithmusic.com\/event-calendar\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming shows<\/a>, and why he loves playing in California.<\/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_75_will_the_real_johns_1%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; #75 (time = 32:14, size = 29.5 mb) You don&#8217;t see the words &#8220;bard&#8221; [&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-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":684,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}