PEL Presents NEM#237: Maia Sharp's Homey Subversion
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Maia has released ten lush, Americana-influenced singer-songwriter albums since 1997 and has collaborated with artists like Art Garfunkel, Bonnie Raitt, and Trisha Yearwood, and been covered by Cher, Paul Carrack, etc.
We discuss "Counterintuition" (and listen to the title track) from Tomboy (2025), "Phoenix" from The Dash Between the Dates (2015), and "A Home" from Fine Upstanding Citizen (2005) (co-written with her father Randy Sharp and popularized in a cover version by The Chicks). Intro: "I Need This to Be Love" from Hardly Glamour (1997). More at maiasharp.com.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Nakedly Examined Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters. |
| 0:08.2 | My name is Mark Lintonmeyer. |
| 0:10.0 | My guest for episode 237 is Maya Sharp. |
| 0:14.0 | She is the daughter of Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Randy Sharp. |
| 0:20.0 | She is a session harmony vocalist. You're right now. of Grammy-winning country singer-songwriter Randy Sharp. |
| 0:23.9 | She is a session harmony vocalist. |
| 0:30.3 | You're right now hearing the opening tracks from her debut album, 1997's Hardly Glamour. |
| 0:32.5 | The song is I Need This to Be Love. |
| 0:36.6 | We are celebrating the release of her 10th solo album, Tom Boy. |
| 0:39.9 | We'll talk about the song Counterintuition in that release, |
| 0:44.0 | then looked back to her 2015 album, The Dash Between the Dates, |
| 0:45.8 | and talk about the song Phoenix, |
| 0:52.4 | then look further back to her third album, 2005's Fine Upstanding Citizen, |
| 0:56.4 | the song A Home, was co-written with her father Randy Sharp, |
| 1:00.7 | and was covered by The Chicks, a.k.a. the Dixie Chicks. |
| 1:05.0 | We'll conclude by listening to the title track from the new record, Tomboy. |
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