Episode 64 - Jeff Daniels
Sodajerker On Songwriting
Sodajerker
4.9 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2014
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Actor, singer-songwriter and playwright Jeff Daniels is the guest for this special holiday episode. Jeff joins Simon and Brian to talk about his songwriting process on songs like 'Grandfather's Hat', 'Allen Parkway Inn', 'The Dirty Harry Blues', 'The Michigan in Me' and 'Mile 416'. Jeff also talks in detail about his new album, Days Like These, and the ways in which his acting and writing inform his music.
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| 0:00.0 | The Hi folks and welcome to the last soda jerker on songwriting of 2014 and a rather special one it is too for joining us today is an actor, singer songwriter and playwright who's probably best known to many of you for his sundry notable roles on the silver screen over the last 33 years. |
| 0:34.3 | But what you may not realize is that he's been prolifically writing songs and playing guitar for as long as he's been a professional |
| 0:39.7 | pretender as he puts it. He's also recorded a number of fine albums, the most |
| 0:43.7 | recent of which, days like these, was released just a couple of months ago. |
| 0:47.2 | We're absolutely thrilled to welcome the awesome Jeff Daniels to the show. |
| 0:51.3 | I am so excited about this. As regular |
| 0:54.6 | listeners may have picked up on by now we are both big film fans so on that |
| 0:58.8 | basis alone this is a very special show for us. More pertinent to this particular podcast however is the fact that |
| 1:04.5 | Jeff is a truly fine musician and songwriter and if you're new to his work in that |
| 1:08.5 | field then we are confident you're going to enjoy his material as much as we do. |
| 1:11.8 | Yeah we've actually known of Jeff's musical leanings for a while, |
| 1:15.0 | but it's only really I think in the last six months or so that we've |
| 1:18.0 | investigated further. |
| 1:19.0 | It's been a real joy to discoveries as adept at crafting a memorable tune with a witty thoughtful |
| 1:24.2 | lyric as he is at creating memorable characters with the screen. |
| 1:27.3 | You could perhaps argue that the two disciplines are in a way intertwined. |
| 1:30.8 | Indeed you could sir and we'll hopefully discuss that idea with the man himself |
| 1:34.3 | very shortly but first Simon would you like to give our listeners the ceremonial |
| 1:38.1 | potted history it would be my honor friend Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia in 1955 but raised in the town of Chelsea, Michigan. |
| 1:47.0 | He picked up the guitar not long after graduating from high school before the acting bug led him to study theatre at Central Michigan University. |
| 1:53.6 | After moving to New York City in 1976 to pursue his acting career in earnest |
| 1:58.2 | where he cuss his teeth on the stage, the likes of the Circle Repertory Theatre, |
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