{"id":7358,"date":"2018-10-20T14:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=7358"},"modified":"2018-10-20T14:53:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:53:24","slug":"songs-and-stories-181-songwriter-lauren-wahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-181-songwriter-lauren-wahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #181: Songwriter Lauren Wahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4005\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-7358-1\" 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_stories181.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories181.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories181.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_stories181.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=7358-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories181.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories181.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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/michael-gaither-songs-and-stories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stitcher<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think the most fun I have with this show is when I get the opportunity to interview an artist I&#8217;ve never really met before. We get to &#8220;free form&#8221; talk shop, and it&#8217;s always interesting to see where the conversation goes. Case in point: Songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyputmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lauren Wahl<\/a>. She and I briefly met about a year ago when we both played on <a href=\"http:\/\/kpig.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KPIG Radio&#8217;s<\/a> live music show, &#8220;Please Stand By&#8221;. We kept in touch, and then finally decided to just have her do an episode of the podcast, so we could really talk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hello-baby.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7362 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hello-baby-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hello-baby-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hello-baby-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hello-baby-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hello-baby.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Last year, Lauren released her first EP of original tunes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyputmusic.com\/shop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;Hello Baby&#8221;<\/a>. It&#8217;s a super collection of tunes that steps between folk-acoustic, singer-songwriter, and a contemporary adult-contemporary vibe. Highly recommended. Early next year, Lauren plans to record a longer project, then release it in the summer. In this interview, we talked about how her first real band came together and how she made such a fine first record without a set-in-stone plan (<strong>spoiler<\/strong>: the band came together after she booked studio time, and they made it work). We also spent time talking about the interesting challenge of what happens when you&#8217;re booking a whole band: You quickly learn that with everyone&#8217;s busy schedules, sometimes you get the whole band, and sometimes you just take who&#8217;s available. It&#8217;s all good, and keeps performing live a very cool and dynamic endeavor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/simply-put.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7363 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/simply-put-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><strong>Want to see Lauren live?<\/strong> Lauren is part of the series &#8220;Women Who Folking Rock&#8221;. (I LOVE that name!) On Wednesday, October 24th, she&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelsonmainmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michael&#8217;s on Main<\/a>, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/nancycassidymusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nancy Cassidy<\/a> (who was on this site in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs-and-stories-179-nancy-cassidys-rivers-rising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">episode #179<\/a> of &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janeanchristinemariani.com\/music.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janean Christine Mariani<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almostjanet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Janet Croteau<\/a>, who books this series.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about Lauren &#8211; and purchase her music (hint, hint) at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.simplyputmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simplyputmusic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs-and-stories-181-songwriter-lauren-wahl%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 I think the most fun I have with this show is when I get the opportunity [&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-7358","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\/7358","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=7358"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7366,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7358\/revisions\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}