Singer-Songwriter Chris Smither

Mental Illness Happy Hour

Paul Gilmartin

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture, Mental Health, Sexuality

4.8 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2018

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The blues-based singer-songwriter who has written for Bonnie Raitt and other artists started out in the epicenter of the NY/Boston folk scene among contemporaries like Bob Dylan and Eric Von Schmidt reminisces about his career, the art of songwriting, jamming with blues legends like Son House, his battles with alcoholism and what success means both professionally and personally. He performs Train Home and Leave The Light On. This week's post-interview surveys and Chris' performance of By The Numbers were released as a donor-only ep at www.Patreon.com/mentalpod Chris' tour dates and details on how to buy his new album Call Me Lucky are available at www.ChrisSmither.com Follow him on Twitter @ChrisSmither_ Check out his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ChrisSmitherMusic/ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. To get your first week of online counseling free go to www.BetterHelp.com/mental Must be 18 To become a monthly donor for as little as $1/month (and qualify for bonus content and goodies from Paul go to www.Patreon.com/mentalpod To make a one-time donation via Paypal go to www.mentalpod.com/donate You can make a one-time donation via Zelle by sending money to mentalpod at gmail.com To help fund Paul's next trip to record international guests, especially in Ireland, go to https://www.gofundme.com/pauls-trip-to-ireland Follow Paul on Twitter @mentalpod and Instagram @mentalpod See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 382 with my guest singer songwriter Chris Smeather.
0:07.9	I'm Paul Gilmarten, this is the metal illness happy hour, a place for honesty about all the
0:12.4	battles in our heads from.
0:14.6	Medically diagnosed conditions, past traumas, and sexual dysfunction to everyday compulsive
0:20.0	negative thinking.
0:21.3	This shows not meant to be a substitute for professional metal counseling.
0:24.6	I'm not a therapist, it's not a doctor's office.
0:27.6	It's more like a waiting room that doesn't suck.
0:29.9	This show is part interview, part listener confessions via the surveys that you can take
0:37.3	online at our website mental pod.com.
0:41.4	It's completely anonymous.
0:42.7	We don't even track the IP address of the person taking, filling out the survey.
0:50.6	Yeah, go to our website.
0:53.4	There's all kinds of stuff there.
0:54.4	There's a forum you can join.
0:57.4	You can read blogs, guest blogs.
1:00.4	You can support the show.
1:02.4	You can see the archive of past episodes that goes all the way back to 2011 when we started.
1:13.3	I want to kick things off with an email that I got from a listener named Grace.
1:22.5	She just sent in a couple of loves that she has.
1:27.2	She writes, I love getting something in the mail that I forgot I ordered.
1:31.4	I love that one.
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