Joe Goodkin: Using Music to Tell Your Story
The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
Srinivas Rao
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, of the podcast we speak with professional guitarist Joe Goodkin about using music to tell stories. We do a deep dive into the creative process of song writing and Joe shares his lessons on what it takes to become a touring musician in this day and age.
Joe Goodkin is a Chicago-based singer/songwriter. He tours the country performing his one-man folk-opera interpretation of Homer’s Odyssey (over 200 performances in over 30 states) and for years released music under the name Paper Arrows. In 2015, he released his first solo record, Record of Life, to wide college radio play and positive press. On February 10, 2017, Joe will release a sequel to Record of Life, entitled Record of Loss, on Quell Records.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the beginning of a song called Gray which was kind of a life-changing song that I wrote |
| 0:04.9 | That bridge the gap between you know working with more with the band and doing a little bit more on my own so I'll play you the first verse and the first chorus maybe. Is that cool? |
| 0:12.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:13.9 | All right. Okay. Well, up and down the stairs we went, |
| 0:23.0 | the gray of a winter that wouldn't end, |
| 0:26.0 | an old black dog bad hips and a cough, |
| 0:29.0 | some days we'd have to carry him the last quiet. Flashback to April of one that got him from the power when he was young. |
| 0:40.0 | My ex-wife was there as I put him in the car |
| 0:45.5 | But he was always mine right from the start |
| 0:59.7 | So the he Through the years he kept me in line when things were tough he was there all the time now his gray aunt can't hear a, but I'll carry him up those stairs again and again. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, how do we say goodbye? |
| 1:14.0 | We have the chance to write the last words of a precious life. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, how do we know one to say goodbye? |
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