{"id":6113,"date":"2015-09-09T14:37:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T19:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=6113"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:13:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T16:13:26","slug":"songs-and-stories-149-cosy-sheridan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-149-cosy-sheridan\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #149: Cosy Sheridan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8986\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6113-1\" 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_stories149.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories149.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories149.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_stories149.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=6113-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories149.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories149.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories149.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here to listen to the interview with Cosy Sheridan.<\/b><\/a>\u00a0(time = 26:17)<\/p>\n<p>With over ten CDs of original material to her credit, and songwriting awards from both the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerrville-music.com\/newfolk.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kerrville Folk Festival<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluegrass.com\/telluride\/contests.html\" target=\"_blank\">Telluride Bluegrass Festival<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosysheridan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cosy Sheridan<\/a> is simply one of the best singer-songwriters you&#8217;ll ever hear. In concert, it&#8217;s a feast of songs that make you laugh (a LOT) and songs that make you tear up and think. <\/p>\n<p>When not performing she&#8217;s an active teacher, spending much of her time in music camps across the country. Case in point: This interview took place in Santa Cruz, CA, right after Cosy taught at this summer&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musiccamp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">California Coast Music Camp<\/a>. This November 1-6, she&#8217;ll be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moabfolkcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moab Folk Camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9C5a60TDbLs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>In this short interview &#8211; we had time to chat just before her set at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafeugly.com\/Cafeugly\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Ugly Mug Cafe<\/a>, Cosy talks about her different songwriting styles and how certain alternate tunings help dictate different songs. <\/p>\n<p>This episode features the title track and &#8220;Welcome to Boston&#8221; from her new release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosysheridan.com\/buy_cds\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Pretty Bird&#8221;<\/a>. and &#8220;Do You Love the Life You Made&#8221; from her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosysheridan.com\/buy_cds\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Solo Songbook&#8221;<\/a> record. For you guitar players out there, Cosy has documented the solo arrangements in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookpatch.com\/BookStore\/solo-songbook\/37baf19b-9bee-4397-b096-63ee0a9fda39\" target=\"_blank\">this book from Amazon.com <\/a>&#8211; including explanations on her use of open tunings and partial capos.<\/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-149-cosy-sheridan%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 Cosy Sheridan.\u00a0(time = 26:17) With over ten CDs of original material to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-podcast","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113","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=6113"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6121,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6113\/revisions\/6121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}