We Flew Off The Page: A Songwriting Podcast

I really enjoyed this conversation with Antje Duvekot where we spoke about our similarities and differences as immigrant songwriters, the challenges of life on the road and the way songs are documents of yourself, frozen in time.

Intro (0:00)

This episode is sponsored by apologies: (0:49)

Opening Interview: (2:13)

Song #1: (18:19)

Song #2: (30:38)

One Cool Thing: (50:50)

Farewell and Links: (54:00)

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Antje Duvekot

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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Josh Ritter is a successful and celebrated songwriter, and I feel convinced after my conversation with him that his songwriting is so good, in part, because he does not particularly care about being successful or celebrated. As he once wrote in “Snow is gone”, “I'm singing for the love of it / Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored”. I loved talking to him.

Intro (0:00)

This episode is sponsored by sponsors: (0:35)

Opening Interview with Josh: (2:40)

Song #1: (22:30)

Song #2: (38:20)

One Cool Thing: (1:01:40)

Farewell and Links: (1:05:06)

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Josh Ritter

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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Josh Ritter is a successful and celebrated songwriter, and I feel convinced after my conversation with him that his songwriting is so good, in part, because he does not particularly care about being successful or celebrated. As he once wrote in “Snow is gone”, “I'm singing for the love of it / Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored”. I loved talking to him.

REGARDING THE VIDEO VERSION OF THE SHOW: You'll notice that I've released this episode in both audio and video format. I assumed that it would not publish on podcatchers that don't support video, but it has. If you're using overcast (or a similar podcatcher) and would like the video version, just look for the show on YouTube, it's easiest to find the video there. If you're sticking with audio, switch over to the audio version of this episode, it has slightly more content.

:) M7

Intro (0:00)

This episode is sponsored by sponsors: (0:35)

Opening Interview with Josh: (2:40)

Song #1: (22:30)

Song #2: (38:20)

One Cool Thing: (1:01:40)

Farewell and Links: (1:05:06)

Links!

Josh Ritter

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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Lizzie No brings her whole bold, beautiful self to this episode, speaking openly about her process as an artist, life, love, liberation and more. M7 and Lizzie tear up on a few occasions. They also laugh! And immerse themselves in two songs from Lizzie’s newest album, Halfsies.

Intro (0:00)

This episode is sponsored by Strawberries: (0:57)

Opening Interview with Lizzie: (6:13)

Song #1: (35:32)

Song #2: (55:40)

One Cool Thing: (1:21:10)

Farewell and Links: (1:24:00)

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Lizzie No

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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Fans of the banjo! Fans of punk and folk and poetry! Fans of awesome, brilliant women! (I should have all of you at this point). This month’s guest is one half of the band “The Lowest Pair”, songwriter and all around great hang Kendl Winter. The two songs we discuss in this episode are totally unlike any other songs I’ve had on the show and this is one great episode. Don’t miss it and don’t miss Kendl’s brand new album of banjo instrumentals, “Banjo Mantras”, Available in some awesome different vinyl covers, if that kind of thing tickles your fancy.

Intro (0:00)

Opening Interview with Kendl: (3:53)

Song #1: (25:56)

Song #2: (53:01)

One Cool Thing: (1:07:58)

Farewell and Links: (1:12:16)

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Kendl Winter

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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#podcast #banjo #olympia #olympiawashington #americana #punk #arkansas #folkmusic #songwriting

May’s episode features wanderer, Bulgarian heritage harmonizer, and wonderful songwriter Louisa Stancioff. Her new album “When We Were Looking” is out everywhere.

Intro (0:00)

Opening Interview with Pamela: (3:05)

Song #1: (31:46)

Song #2: (55:16)

One Cool Thing: (1:10:48)

Farewell and Links: (1:17:40)

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Louisa Stancioff

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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WFOTP turns double digits, with episode 10 featuring special guest Carsie Blanton! If you don’t know Carsie’s work, you will soon - she’s leading the way in the all important job of making the revolution fun. Hot off the success of her brand new hit album “After The Revolution”, Carsie and I sat down to talk Chomsky, songwriting chops, Che Guevara and a whole lot more.

Intro (0:00)

Opening Interview with Carsie: (3:44)

Song #1 “Twister”: (40:55)

Song #2 “After The Revolution”: (57:30)

One Cool Thing: (1:22:13)

Farewell and Links: (1:25:09)

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Carsie Blanton

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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In Episode 9 of We Flew Off The Page, M7 and Pamela Means discuss tellin’ it like it is as a songwriter, our relationship to our most personal work and cosmology (among other things). 

Intro (0:00)

Opening Interview with Pamela: (2:59)

Song #1: (22:26)

Song #2: (40:00)

One Cool Thing: (56:50)

Farewell and Links: (1:04:12)

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Pamela Means

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

Episode 8 of We Flew Off features the talented, wonderful songwriter extraordinaire Chris Pureka. Chris and M7 have relatively different writing processes and the conversation is full of wonderful revelations, fascinating little peaks into Chris’ mind and some great laughs.

Intro (0:00)

Opening Interview with Chris: (2:57)

Song #1: (21:03)

Song #2: (35:34)

One Cool Thing: (1:00:55)

Farewell and Links: (1:06:53)

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Chris Pureka

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven

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In episode 7 of We Flew Off The Page, host Muhammad seven explores inspiration, our differences and our similarities with internationally acclaimed musician, writer and activist Stephan Said.

Intro (0:00)

Opening Interview with Stephan (2:10)

First Song (49:20)

Second Song (1:09:52)

One Cool Thing (1:33:25)

Farewell and Links (1:42:46)

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Stephan Said

We Flew Off The Page

Muhammad Seven