{"id":97,"date":"2007-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T17:31:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T22:31:56","slug":"songs_and_stories_15_canadian_songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_15_canadian_songwriter\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #15: Canadian Songwriter Tia McGraff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2927\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-97-1\" 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_stories15.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories15.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories15.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_stories15.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=97-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories15.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories15.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories15.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #15<\/a>  (time = 31:11, size = 37.4 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Canadian songwriter Tia McGraff is originally from Port Dover, Ontario. She spent a number of years in Nashville, but these days, when she&#8217;s not on the road, she&#8217;s back home in Canada with husband (and fellow songwriter) Tommy Parham. I caught up with both of them during a busy weekend at the end of a busy summer. We discussed the music scene in Canada, Tia&#8217;s fondness for story songs (we found lots of common ground there), and, of course, our dogs. (Hey, you&#8217;re around dog people, you MUST talk about your dogs.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/tia.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to go with the show. I mention these in the podcast:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiamcgraff.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tia McGraff&#8217;s official site<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiamcgraff.com\/performances.html\" target=\"_blank\">Her tour dates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiamcgraff.com\/dayinmyshoesaudio.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A Day In My Shoes&#8221;, her latest CD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Stronger-Than-Time-Lee-Greenwood\/dp\/B0000AQS62\/ref=sr_1_4\/104-6548131-3166301?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1190657107&amp;sr=8-4\" target=\"_blnak\">Lee Greenwood&#8217;s &#8220;Stronger Than Time&#8221;, featuring &#8220;Rocks That You Can&#8217;t Move&#8221;, written by Tommy Parham<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsus.org\/humane_living\/memorial_and_planned_gifts\/hsus-special-friends\/emmylou_harris_her_lifes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Emmylou Harris on dog fostering<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmylou.net\/br.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bonaparte&#8217;s Retreat<\/a> (Emmylou&#8217;s fostering organization)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gratefuldread.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grateful Dread Media<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\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_15_canadian_songwriter%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 to hear &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #15 (time = 31:11, size = 37.4 mb) Canadian songwriter Tia McGraff is originally [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}