{"id":4833,"date":"2013-08-13T15:19:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T20:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=4833"},"modified":"2013-08-13T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T21:32:06","slug":"songs-and-stories-128-sean-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-128-sean-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #128: Sean Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6102\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4833-1\" 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_stories128.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories128.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories128.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_stories128.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=4833-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories128.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories128.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories128.mp3\"><strong>Click here to listen to the interview with singer\/songwriter Sean Hayes<\/strong><\/a> (time = 34:16)<\/p>\n<p>I recently had a virtual sit-down (via Skype) with singer\/songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanhayesmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sean Hayes<\/a>. We talked about his eclectic approach to music, how he&#8217;s happily maintained indie status throughout his career, and how he&#8217;ll take the intimate sound from his recent work into a full-scale band show at this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/festival.php\" target=\"_blank\">American River Music Festival<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Sean Hayes has influences from the best of all worlds. He was born in New York City, then raised in North Carolina &#8211; which he said probably &#8220;rounded the northern edges off&#8221;. It was in NC that he discovered banjo, fiddle, old-time, and bluegrass. Years later, on a whim, he came to San Francisco with his guitar and immersed himself in the folk scene. He&#8217;s been a bay area resident for over twenty years. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i2tGT-RWSP0\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hayes-300x220.png\" alt=\"hayes\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hayes-300x220.png 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/hayes.png 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nSean Hayes teaches how to play &#8220;Powerful Stuff&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s never pursued a label and has done fine with seven independent releases. After playing a few years, Sean said you quickly learn that business is a part of the music, that at some point, you need to &#8220;prove to people that you&#8217;re going to show up&#8221;. Sean says doing it yourself means that you can&#8217;t rely or wait on someone else to finish up the details, but there&#8217;s a satisfaction in that, too. <\/p>\n<p>Musically, he cites soul, folk, R&#038;B, reggae, and gospel as influences. On Sean&#8217;s latest release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanhayesmusic.com\/lyrics-listen\/bwttd.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Before We Turn to Dust&#8221;<\/a>, he adds fatherhood to that list. You can hear the new, proud father in him on catchy tunes like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seanhayesmusic.com\/lyrics-listen\/bwttd-02.php?KeepThis=true&#038;TB_iframe=true&#038;height=550&#038;width=700\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Miss Her When I&#8217;m Gone&#8221;<\/a> and lyrics like &#8220;You may spend all your money before you turn to dust \/ But you&#8217;ll never spend all your love\u201d in the title track.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Hayes plays the main stage of the American River Music Festival on Saturday, September 14th. Tickets, camping info, and more details are at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanrivermusic.org\/festival.php\" target=\"_blank\">americanrivermusic.org<\/a>. (If you&#8217;re near Santa Cruz, you can see Sean again at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donquixotesmusic.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Don Quixote&#8217;s Music Hall<\/a> in Felton on Saturday, October 19th.)<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<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-128-sean-hayes%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 here to listen to the interview with singer\/songwriter Sean Hayes (time = 34:16) I recently had a virtual sit-down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833","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=4833"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4852,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4833\/revisions\/4852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}