{"id":6638,"date":"2016-11-07T19:13:06","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2018-03-07T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T21:20:22","slug":"songs-and-stories-165-something-good-from-martha-groves-perry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-165-something-good-from-martha-groves-perry\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #165: &#8220;Something Good from Martha Groves Perry&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9753\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6638-1\" 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_stories165.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories165.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories165.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_stories165.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=6638-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories165.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories165.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6639\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/marthagrovesperry-cover-1400x1400px.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>So just how *does* a classically trained cello and pianist end evolve into fronting her own band, singing her own songs, and doing a big release party for her new EP, <a href=\"https:\/\/marthagrovesperry.com\/listen\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Something Good&#8221;<\/a> THIS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artboutiki.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Art Boutiki<\/a> in San Jose? Listen to this interview with songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/marthagrovesperry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martha Groves Perry<\/a>, and you&#8217;ll quickly find out.<\/p>\n<p>I first heard Martha years ago when she was singing harmony with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bevandgreg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bev Barnett and Greg Newlon<\/a>, mutual good pals of ours. She&#8217;s played with symphonies, toured in support of other musicians, but somewhere along the way she got the bug, got out in front, and started writing her own material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ven-diagra.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6641\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/ven-diagra-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ven-diagra\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>These days most of her songs <a href=\"https:\/\/marthagrovesperry.com\/2016\/10\/13\/dreaming-songs\/\" target=\"_blank\">come as dreams<\/a>. In this interview you&#8217;ll learn how it&#8217;s not THAT unusual for writers to wake up in the middle of the night and sprint for the iPhone or notepad&#8230;before those lyric snippets trail away. (Honestly, it was kind of reassuring to learn I&#8217;m not the only one.) You&#8217;ll hear two songwriters open up about how it really is sort of a strange endeavor, writing songs and performing them. And you&#8217;ll find out what it took for Martha to take that next step, get her songs into a studio, and set up the big release party this Saturday. (<a href=\"http:\/\/marthagrovesperry.bpt.me\/\" target=\"_blank\">Get your tickets here<\/a>, and read more about Martha in this recent piece from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2016\/10\/26\/dream-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a>.<\/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-165-something-good-from-martha-groves-perry%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>So just how *does* a classically trained cello and pianist end evolve into fronting her own band, singing her own [&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-6638","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\/6638","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=6638"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7138,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6638\/revisions\/7138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}