{"id":6044,"date":"2015-06-26T13:12:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-26T18:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2016-06-30T17:40:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T22:40:10","slug":"songs-and-stories-147-gurf-morlix-and-blackie-farrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-147-gurf-morlix-and-blackie-farrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #147: Gurf Morlix and Blackie Farrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8774\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6044-1\" 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_stories147.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories147.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories147.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_stories147.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=6044-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories147.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories147.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories147.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here to listen to the interview with Gurf Morlix and Blackie Farrell<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(time = 41:46)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/eatin-at-me.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6053\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/eatin-at-me-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"eatin at me\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>File this under another of &#8220;this is my favorite podcast&#8221; episodes. Granted, I have a lot of favorites, but this one is particularly cool. Last year, I met and interviewed Austin producer\/songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/gurfmorlix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gurf Morlix<\/a>. We talked some of the folks he&#8217;s worked with, including Lucinda Williams, Slaid Cleaves, and Warren Zevon. If you missed that chat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-stories-135-gurf-morlix\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here to listen to episode #135<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He came back west this spring with a new record, <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/eatin-at-me\/id955007733\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Eatin&#8217; At Me&#8221;<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gurf.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gurf-150x150.gif\" alt=\"gurf\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gurf-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/gurf-300x300.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>and played our concert series in Corralitos. He also brought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/657270-Kevin-Blackie-Farrell\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin &#8220;Blackie&#8221; Farrell<\/a> to split the night with him. If you don&#8217;t know Blackie, you know some of his work. Robert Earl Keen and Dave Alvin recorded his song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=52gzhQS0dg4\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Sonora&#8217;s Death Row&#8221;<\/a>. He wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0BoyEHeID8U\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Mama Hated Diesels&#8221;<\/a>, a hit for Commander Cody. He&#8217;s been a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/artist\/657270-Kevin-Blackie-Farrell\" target=\"_blank\">songwriter&#8217;s songwriter<\/a> for years, but hasn&#8217;t recorded his own record. Until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/blackie.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6050\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/blackie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"blackie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Gurf and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billkirchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Kirchen<\/a> produced for Blackie, and they&#8217;re currently finishing the project and looking at a release date. When the record&#8217;s out, you&#8217;ll hear about here on this blog and in whatever latest podcast I&#8217;m working on.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, listen to Gurf and Blackie before their concert. Gurf talks about &#8220;Eatin&#8217; At Me&#8221; &#8211; it&#8217;s a very personal record &#8211; his best, I&#8217;d say &#8211; and plays the new song, &#8220;Blue Smoke&#8221;. Blackie talks about his years in the business and gives us a preview of what we&#8217;ll hear on the debut record. This is a wonderful sit down with two powerhouse songwriters and storytellers.<\/p>\n<p><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\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs-and-stories-147-gurf-morlix-and-blackie-farrell%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 Gurf Morlix and Blackie Farrell\u00a0(time = 41:46) File this under another of [&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-6044","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\/6044","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=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6474,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions\/6474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}