948: Sarah Sample's Faith Journey Through Song Pt. 2

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 June 2018

⏱️ 68 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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0:00.0	Where I won't set on mother too. She said the things like mothers do. But mothers can be wrong sometimes.
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0:59.1	You're just in love. You're just in love. You're just in love. Love, love, love.
1:15.9	Okay, so how did... So you were limping on in your faith and what happened? We're limping on.
1:26.0	What would people have known you were limping? Woodward members have said, well Sarah's
1:33.4	something's wrong with Sarah or were you able to kind of portray the image of of all in
1:40.5	you were just kind of suffering inside or something like that? I definitely was all in in terms of
1:45.1	we were temple going. We had, you know, I released society teacher or Sunday school teacher,
1:52.1	you know, we were really active in our collings but I always have been an outspoken person and I've
1:57.9	always been a liberal person and so I don't think that if I had a conversation I would deny that
2:03.2	things were hard for me and I think it was around that time probably a year before we decided to
2:09.2	leave that I started reading the rough stone rolling which I think, I don't know, I think it was
2:17.6	it just like opened that door more for me but it wasn't that I read it and then left I read it and
2:25.1	was like oh I feel a little better almost. So then we moved to South Jordan. How did it make you feel better?
2:33.3	Just because I felt like I was learning truth, I felt like I was like finally,
2:38.4	like someone was straight talking to me instead of trying to explain something away they were like,
2:44.1	no this is actually what happened and I appreciated that that felt really refreshing but I remember
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