{"id":6585,"date":"2016-09-23T15:22:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T20:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=6585"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:22:50","slug":"songs-and-stories-163-kevin-welch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-163-kevin-welch\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #163: Kevin Welch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_276\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6585-1\" 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_stories163.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories163.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories163.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_stories163.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=6585-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories163.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories163.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Subscribe: <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\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/michael-gaither-songs-and-stories\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stitcher<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kevin_welch_black_and_white_hi_res.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/kevin_welch_black_and_white_hi_res-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"kevin_welch_black_and_white_hi_res\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6589\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinwelch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Welch<\/a>, another of &#8220;one of my favorite songwriters&#8221; &#8211; yes it&#8217;s a big list, but it&#8217;s a good one &#8211; finally makes an appearance on the &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; podcast. I first saw him decades ago at my SECOND <a href=\"http:\/\/strawberrymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Strawberry Music Festival<\/a>. He was touring with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadreckoners.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Dead Reckoners<\/a>, a band of songwriting and studio ringers that included <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadreckoners.com\/artists\/kieran_kane.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kieran Kane<\/a>. (Welch and Kane eventually toured as a duo, then a trio accompanied by instrumental wizard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadreckoners.com\/artists\/fats_kaplin.html\" target=\"_blank\">Fats Kaplan<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Welch was at the epicenter of the Americana genre before it had a label. (The term &#8220;Western Beat&#8221; was tossed around for a bit. It was even the title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinwelch.com\/western_beat.php\" target=\"_blank\">his second record<\/a> back in 1992.) These days, he&#8217;s touring primarily with his son <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustinwelch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin Welch<\/a>, another formidable songwriting and guitar slinging force from the Welch clan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/patch-of-blues-ky.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/patch-of-blues-ky-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"patch-of-blues-ky\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6590\" \/><\/a>I caught up with Welch recently before a house concert in Gilroy, CA. We talked about Americana and Western Beat and his lifelong work as a working songwriter. These days, in addition to recording and touring he runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinwelch.com\/workshops.php\" target=\"_blank\">songwriter workshop\/retreats<\/a> at his Texas hill country home, about an hour south of Austin. Welch talked in details about the experience he went through as a songwriter *teaching* songwriting for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>This episode includes &#8220;Come A Rain&#8221; and &#8220;The Great Emancipation&#8221; off his latest release, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinwelch.com\/music.php\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Patch of Blue Sky&#8221;<\/a>, and &#8220;A Prayer Like Any Other,&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadreckoners.com\/music\/cant_save_everybody.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Save Everybody&#8221;<\/a>, one of the collaboration albums he did with Kieran Kane. (It happens to be one of my favorite songs, so I couldn&#8217;t resist.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have comments on this episode?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019d love to hear from you. Call and leave a message at <strong>(831) 288-2226<\/strong>, and I\u2019ll play your comments on-air during the next show.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs-and-stories-163-kevin-welch%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>Subscribe: iTunes | Stitcher Kevin Welch, another of &#8220;one of my favorite songwriters&#8221; &#8211; yes it&#8217;s a big list, 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":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6585","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\/6585","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=6585"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7141,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6585\/revisions\/7141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}