HeyJaredThe Sum of All Wisdom
A podcast on all things music, featuring conversations on music, makers, and meaning.
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There is No Time Limit: Erika Horsey on Talent, Missed Opportunities, and a Long Creative Life (opens the original)
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Creative talent does not follow straight lines. The zigs and zags of a creative career can be exhilarating and frustrating, joyous and crushing. What happens when opportunity knocks and we ignore it? Or when opportunity arrives in a totally unexpected form? In this conversation, French-American singer-songwriter Erika Horsey and host Scott Catey explore a life shaped by music, movement, emotional sensitivity, and a succession of moments when recognition seemed tantalizingly close. Beginning with
If It Isn’t Singing, Take It Out: Rich Ferguson on poetry, rhythm, and the embodied word (opens the original)
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Where is a poem? For poet, drummer, novelist, and performer Rich Ferguson, poetry lives in the breath, the body, and the beat. It moves through voice and gesture, enters into conversation with music and silence, and gathers new meaning from the people and places surrounding it. In this conversation, Rich joins Scott Catey to explore the deep musicality of language and the entwining of music and poetry. He explains how cadence becomes an editing tool, why memorizing a poem is a physical process,
There are a Lot of People in a Tune: Stephen Wade on Banjo History, Folk Tradition, and Our Common Life (opens the original)
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Stephen Wade is a renowned banjo player, folklorist, and author. He joins today to discuss his new book, Our Common Life, and explore our shared musical inheritance, American folk culture, creative individuality, and the promises we make to those whose stories we carry. Episode Summary Every traditional song contains more than notes and words. It carries the traces of musicians, families, communities, migrations, technologies, institutions, and individual acts of invention. Bob Dylan may have su
Something Sacred in That: Emma Swift on songwriting, interpretation, creativity, listening beyond the algorithm…and Dylan (opens the original)
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What happens when we stop asking whether art is successful—and instead ask how it matters? Singer-songwriter Emma Swift has spent a life listening closely: to records, to other singers, to fragments of language, to the places where songs come from, and especially to Bob Dylan. Her acclaimed Blonde on the Tracks explored Dylan’s songs not as museum pieces to be faithfully reproduced, but as living works to be inhabited, interpreted, and made new. For Emma, learning a Dylan song is almost an intel
You Already Know How to Make Music: Kalani Das on play, listening, imperfection, and finding our way to music (opens the original)
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What if learning music begins with listening, not learning how to play an instrument or reading notation? Find a sound. Notice it. Find another one. Play with them. Follow your curiosity. Make a mistake. Keep going. For Kalani Das , musician, educator, music therapist, author, and master percussionist, music begins with experience, not rules, notation, or technique. In this episode of The Sum of All Wisdom , Kalani joins me for a wide-ranging exploration of what happens when we stop treating mus
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