Graveyard Sessions
The Graveyard Sessions is like having a studio visit with artists across all kinds of artistic mediums. Your host, performing singer songwriter Lara Taubman, was inspired to make the podcast to explain what inspired the nine songs on her debut album Revelation. Once a visual arts curator and historian herself, her favorite part of her job was to visit the artist's studios, and see what inspired their work. She hopes to bring that exploration to the podcast with musicians, writers, visual artists and anyone involved in a creative process.
Episodes
27 episodes
Episode 27: The darkness before the dawn has been my hope throughout my life.
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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Episode 26: A Creek in Belgrade, Montana inspired the song "The Water"
Listen to how a creek in Montana inspired me to write this song.
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Episode 26
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28:05
Episode 25: What Inspired the Making of Silver Linings
Check out the first episode from my album "Ol' Kentucky Light" about how and why I created the song "Silver Linings."
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Episode 25
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24:50
Episode 24: Clem Chesterfield
Clem Chesterfield would always let you know he is a legend in his own right and based on that he has many stories to tell here in this episode. He talks about his Canadian origins, what brought him to making music and about his new album “Of Lu...
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Episode 23: Rodrigo Alonzo
Rod is a Brooklyn based performing singer songwriter and recording artist who I met a couple years ago. He and I return to the worlds of our childhood in this episode to remember what brought us to music. Rod tells how he kept coming back to ma...
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1:47:48
Episode 21: Dj4animals
Dj4animals is a Brooklyn based designer who creates upcycled clothing and sneakers. Our conversation here follows the trajectory of our many conversations we have had in the past. We start with an in-depth discussion of Quentin Tarantino films ...
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Episode 20: One Legged Uncle
One Legged Uncle is a very special collaboration between fellow musicians Jason Mercer and Teilhard Frost. They created an album last year that is centered around the banjo. The sounds that resulted are from Old Time to Afro-Pop to bluegrass an...
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Episode 19: Anthony Jamari Thomas
Anthony and I go deep on life and art and the meaning of making things and being a person in today's world. He is a multi-media artist from Bed Stuy, Brooklyn in New York. He made the photographs for my first album and we just finished th...
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2:21:47
Episode 18: Rich Tyo
Rich Tyo and I have a great conversation about the upcoming release of his debut album Inner Space/Outer Space on May 26. The topic of psychedelic healing sparked us into a spectrum of conversation on many things. Music, of course, how Rich sta...
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Episode 17: The Ropes, Part 2
The second half of my conversation with The Ropes we look deeply at the creative process and talk about how trust is a critical part of the creative collaborative process.
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Episode 16: The Ropes, Part 1
I know Hugh Christopher Brown, Pete Bowers and Jason Mercer because they played on my first album Revelation. But they are also the band The Ropes. In the first part of a two part conversation I have with them, they talk about how their lives o...
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Episode 15: Marcus Paul
Marcus and I have a conversation that winds through the streets of New York City, his recent collaborations with German eyewear designer Haffmans and Neuemeister and clothing designer Bod, our favorite alternative designer fashion,&...
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1:46:58
Episode 14: Stephen West
Stephen West continually defies boundaries of what you ever believed knitting could be outdoing himself over his ten year career with his vibrant designs and knitting patterns. Even if you have never picked up knitting needles, this conve...
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1:31:28
Episode 13: theLoftBlue
the LoftBlue (Chino) and I discuss music, life, performance, being present and love.
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Episode 12: Laura Watt
Laura Watt is a painter with whom I have been dialoguing most of my life about life, art, life, art, life, art, etc. and just good old B.S. She just opened her one woman show at the David Richard Gallery in Harlem, New York. In this interview, ...
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Episode 11: Hugh Christopher Brown
My first interview with another person (besides myself) on Graveyard Sessions is Hugh Christopher Brown (Chris), producer and singer songwriter as well as founder of Wolfe Island Records and the Pros and Cons program, a rehabilitative music pro...
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1:33:49
Episode 10: How the darkness before the dawn inspired my title song Revelation
The title song Revelation has a connection to all the other songs on my album. This episode is an intense look at all of the ideas that gave me hope for so many years before I ever began making music.
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50:39
Episode 9: Snakes in the Snow and how I understand the myth of Hades and Persephone.
Pomegranates, sweet and bittersweet, how ancient myths can illuminate our contemporary lives and even inspire us to invent new sounds based on old archetypes.
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Special Edition Episode 8: Top 12 Songs of 2020
There are many reasons that 2020 was an unforgettable year. I think that the abundance of new music this year has also been unforgettable. A special edition for the podcast, it's the first 'best of' list for the Graveyard Sessions. It was...
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1:32:06
Episode 7: Cold Side of Spring
When my soul looks out at the highway...how spring time inspired me to write the Cold Side of Spring from my debut album Revelation.
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26:39
Episode 6: The hookup that inspired the song Hookup.
In this episode I tell how this folk song became a funk song. I also, willingly and reluctantly, tell the story of the hookup that inspired me to write this song. I hope you'll take 20 minutes, have a cup of something and listen.
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Episode 5: Heartbreak Garden and Learning to Write a Song
Heartbreak Garden is the first song I ever wrote. I talk about its evolution from a song in its initial state into its final produced version. I also talk about how I've learned to trust inspiration and write guided by the ineffable but very re...
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Episode 5
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Episode 4: Akureyri and searching for a word that rhymes with 'nary.
In this episode I explain how I wrote a song about a crazy woman, Akureyri, an ancient port town in Iceland where I have never visited, the unexpected genius of googling and the Captain's Walk. All of these things came together in one moment to...
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23:31
Episode 3: I talk about the game of life and how I believe it can be won: What inspired me to write my song "The Conversation."
I dont think there is one formula that makes life great except for one: love. See how an impromptu lunch with an old friend inspired me to write the third song "The Conversation" on my debut album Revelation.
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