{"id":8654,"date":"2022-10-12T17:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=8654"},"modified":"2022-10-12T17:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T22:47:38","slug":"adding-keys-to-the-welcome-back-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/adding-keys-to-the-welcome-back-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding Keys to the &#8220;Welcome Back&#8221; Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a funny world, this music business. In the age of streaming and all the music in the world literally at your fingertips, CDs simply don&#8217;t sell like they used to. (Not a complaint, honestly. Just an observation.) But if you write songs, you want to record them. My last full CD was &#8220;Hey Karma&#8221; in 2017. I&#8217;ve been just releasing an occasional digital single (Spotify, etc.) for the past few years. But with a few new songs, it felt right starting up a new EP, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Then I thought, &#8220;Why not drop in the recent singles, maybe a live track or two, and maybe just ONE more newly recorded track. And then it magically becomes a full CD. So we did&#8230;er, we are. And yesterday, we headed up to Kyle Poppen&#8217;s house and added Jamie Coffis to two of the songs. Kyle&#8217;s going to shoot the new tracks up to our pal and producer, Henry Chadwick. Henry recently relocated to Portland, and he&#8217;s finishing up the record remotely. Here are snippets from the title track and &#8220;Cheers to the Road&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8654-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221011_165138.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221011_165138.mp4\">http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221011_165138.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-8654-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221011_172537.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221011_172537.mp4\">http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/20221011_172537.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Welcome Back (A Collection)&#8221; is an intentionally cookie-cutter collection of tunes that are pre- and post-2020, along with some never-before-recorded songs, including three with a local angle. Looking at an early 2023 release. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fadding-keys-to-the-welcome-back-project%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>It&#8217;s a funny world, this music business. In the age of streaming and all the music in the world literally [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654","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=8654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8654\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}