947: Sarah Sample's Faith Journey Through Song Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning singer-songwriter Sarah Sample treats us with an interactive interview in front of a live audience in our Mormon Stories studio—sharing with us songs from her new album, Redwing – which explores her faith journey out of Mormonism.

Sarah writes beautiful songs that weave a trail of stories through folk, Americana, and country and have garnered comparisons to Sheryl Crow, The Weepies, and Bonnie Raitt.

Redwing, Sample’s sixth album, features more of her cut-to-the-bone storytelling, framed with empathy and compassion, and told with the best singing of Sample’s career. Produced by Sample’s longtime producer Scott Wiley (Elliott Smith, Bonnie Raitt), Redwing came to life over a few weeks of sessions at June Audio in Provo, Utah.

Redwing is—among other things and in the grand tradition of albums—a breakup album. But this was no run-of-the-mill romantic heartbreak; Sample’s breakup was spiritual. She left the committed religion of her upbringing (and its by-the-book lifestyle) to chart her own spiritual course, with all the starting over, unmapped question marks, and personal reconstruction that come with it. In the process, she landed in Wyoming where, in her words, “the wide open spaces felt like open arms to me—the endless skies and horizons leave room for anyone to belong.” Redwing tells that story. And more.

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1:15.3	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories Podcast. I'm your host John D'Alinn.
1:20.3	It is June 14th, 2018. We are recording and broadcasting to Facebook Live.
1:28.4	Live here in our studio, our Open Stories Foundation's last Mormon Stories Podcast studio,
1:34.8	in Salt Lake City, Utah. We are really excited for all the good things that are happening across the
1:42.3	globe in Mormon Stories Land and Mormon Stories Podcast. And we are really, really excited today
1:50.2	to have with us another singer-songwriter. So we have been featuring, we have a history of
1:57.7	featuring singer-songwriters here and there in our 13-year history. But today we have a Sarah sample.
2:06.8	Some of you will know of Sarah Samples' work. If my memory is correct, she has six albums out.
2:12.4	You can check her out on Spotify. Some of you have heard of the Lower Lights,
2:17.2	which is a musical performance group that is performed in Utah and in out of Utah for many,
2:23.2	many years. It's a great group, but Sarah has been performing with them for a long time.
2:28.9	But she has had a solo career ever since her days as an undergraduate at Utah State University.
2:36.8	Again, she has six albums, but she is currently promoting her sixth album and it's called Red Wing.
2:44.9	And it is inspired by her faith, journey, and her journey specifically out of Mormonism.
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