{"id":87,"date":"2008-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-12-11T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T16:19:22","slug":"songs_and_stories_42_the_sherry_austin_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_42_the_sherry_austin_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #42: The Sherry Austin Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5888\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-87-1\" 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_stories42.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories42.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories42.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_stories42.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=87-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories42.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories42.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories42.mp3\"><strong>Click here to listen to the interview with Sherry Austin<\/strong><\/a> (time = 31:02)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sherryaustin_music\" target=\"_blank\">Sherry Austin<\/a> spent time in Hawaii doing covers in the &#8220;steak and winehouse&#8221; scene, but it wasn&#8217;t until she moved back to her native California, settled in Santa Cruz, and discovered &#8220;the mighty <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpig.com\" target=\"_blank\">KPIG<\/a>&#8221; (and folks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fredeaglesmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Eaglesmith<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertearlkeen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Earl Keen<\/a>) that she became the  singer\/songwriter folks around here are so fond of. She&#8217;s now played regularly on KPIG and is a staple on the local music scene.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode of &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221;, Sherry talks about how writing her first few songs eventually grew into her two CDs, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/sherryaustin\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Drive-By Romance&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/sherryaustin2\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Drive On Back&#8221;<\/a>. We also chat about her love of Kate Wolf, whose work will be featured next weekend when Sherry shares the stage with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/sharonallensongs\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Allen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginnymitchell.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ginny Mitchell<\/a> in a tribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiddlingcricket.com\/concertdetails.htm\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Songs of Kate Wolf&#8221; (9\/19 at Mission City Coffee and 9\/21 at Don Quixote&#8217;s)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sherry-austin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/sherry_austin.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This episode includes samples of <a href=\"http:\/\/sherry-austin.com\/lyrics.html#mustang\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;How&#8217;s the Mustang Running?&#8221;<\/a> from &#8220;Drive-By Romance&#8221; and &#8220;Hallelujah&#8221; (featuring Sherry trading vocals with Sharon and Ginny) off &#8220;Drive On Back&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><center><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\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_42_the_sherry_austin_i%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 Sherry Austin (time = 31:02) Sherry Austin spent time in Hawaii doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-contest","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5251,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/5251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}