The Maia Sharp Interview: Songwriting with Soldiers and Her New Album, Tomboy

Today on the AmericanaMusic.com Podcast we are interviewing Maia Sharp. She’s written songs for Keb Mo, Cher, Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Art Garfunkel, and Trisha Yearwood including Trisha’s recent single “The Wall or the Way Over”. Maia's new album Tomboy  is a catchy collection of songs that hit close to the bone, from one of the best songwriters around. Tomboy releases Friday, September 12th.  We are excited to welcome Maia Sharp to our show today. 

Chapters

• 0:15 Maia Sharp Introduction
• 0:43 Daughter of an Anthropologist and Country Songwriter
• 3:51 Living in Los Angeles verse Nashville
• 8:00 Songwriting with Soldiers
• 13:38 How "Tomboy" differs from "Mercy Rising" and "Reckless Thoughts"
• 17:38 OP-1 Field Synthesizer
• 22:32 The First Single "Tomboy"
• 25:24 Opposite George and the Song "Counterintuition"
• 28:41 "Is That What Love Does?"
• 32:00 "Edge of the Weatherline"
• 34:37 U2 Cover
• 38:07 Outro