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Beyond a Song (Series)

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Beyond a Song: Claudia Gibson (Part 2)

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CLAUDIA GIBSON (PART 1): PUBLISHED ON PRX 6 / 7 / 2024 - BEYOND A SONG originates in BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA and is sponsored by: THE BLUEBIRD NIGHTCLUB, REAL TO REELS RECORDING STUDIO, AND VISITBLOOMINGTON.COM
Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin interviews Texas singer/songwriter Claudia Gibson.

Claudia Gibson’s musical path to her second full-length album The Fields of Chazy has been anything but straight. From her teenage club-playing days to formal college music study to fronting bands in her 20s, Claudia never envisioned doing much else besides playing music. But life - including raising three children - had some other plans, and Claudia stepped away from performing for several years. After seeing her youngest son off to college, Claudia decided she couldn’t ignore her muse any longer, and her adopted home of Austin, Texas helped her resume songwriting and performing with a vengeance.

Claudia’s first solo album Step By Step (2016) and follow-up EP Louisiana Sky (2019) - both produced by Band of Heathens frontman Gordy Quist - contained songs that made folks sit up and take notice. Step By Step cracked the AMA radio charts and made the Roots Music Report's 2017 Top Americana/Country Album Chart.  After winning the Woody Guthrie Songwriting Contest in 2018, Claudia went on to become a finalist in the 2019 Kerrville New Folk Competition, and was chosen as a finalist and participant in several other prestigious songwriting festivals and competitions. 

The 2020 COVID shutdown and its aftermath slowed Claudia’s music career momentum, but opening for Walt Wilkins twice in 2022 and making his acquaintance again when performing at the Corpus Christi Songwriters Festival in 2023 was the start of a musical friendship that was timely and organic. Walt produced Claudia’s album The Fields of Chazy in the summer of 2023, with co-producer and engineer Ron Flynt manning the boards at Jumping Dog Studios in Austin. The album features a who’s who of some of Austin’s finest musicians, including Rich Brotherton, Chris Beall and Pat Byrne, and presents songs that weave stories about real people whose lives and narratives have impacted Claudia in profound ways.

Claudia has had numerous jobs over the years - including salesperson, truck loader, waitress, journalist, librarian, educator and mom - but only one true lifelong vocation: as a musician and songwriter. Claudia’s life experiences have helped her create songs that mine our common humanity, and that invite listeners into stories and emotions that feel familiar and relatable.

Claudia’s musical style runs the gamut of her past musical experience - with folk at its basis, but also including elements of rock, classical, bluegrass, Celtic and R&B - weaving a sound that is solely her own. 

Musical selections include: Trouble, Shine On, Unbound, The Days, Laura's Song, Cleveland Ohio

For more information, visit BEYOND A SONG.COM

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The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel (Series)

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Emotion Roadmap Helping Families Deal with Eldercare Issues

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Er_successful_eldercare_small Patrick calls and asks for help with his 88-year-old dad who seems to want Patrick to be his full-time caregiver. Patrick loves his dad, wants to help, but he is married, has a child, and full-time job. Using the Emotion Roadmap as a guide I help Patrick create an emotion-based plan to guide how best to help his dad. Doug calls and needs help for his wife in getting her dad to create a formal will. The dad is remarried, and the situation is complicated. By end of call, Doug is thankful for an emotion-based plan that should feel like a win-win for all.

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A Way with Words (Series)

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Hog on Ice (#1544)

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Rasoul from Mashad, Iran, writes to ask why in English the phrase fat chance actually means "little or no chance" -- a slim chance, in other words. Fat chance is an ironic usage, much like the phrase big deal which is often used to mean just the opposite of itself. 
Kathy from Huntsville, Alabama, remembers that her father would entice guests to stay awhile longer with the puzzling phrase We're fixing to open up a keg of nails. Actually, the keg of nails in this case is a jocular euphemism referencing a different kind of keg -- that is, one full of beer -- the idea being that if the guests linger, he'll crack open some more alcoholic beverages for them to enjoy.
Nancy in Dallas, Texas, shares a funny story about a preschooler's misunderstanding of the expression in the meantime, meaning "in the interim." The mean in meantime derives from a Latin medius, "in the middle," the source also of such words as English meanwhile and the French word for "middle," moyen.
Responding to our conversation about the curses medieval scribes wrote in books to prevent their theft, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst emails a modern-day book curse from the instructional manual Beginning Glassblowing by Edward T. Schmid. Glassblowers, by the way, call themselves gaffers.
While fishing from a jetty, Maria in San Antonio, Texas, wondered about this name for a structure extending from the shore out into the water. The word jetty comes to us via the French word jeter, meaning "to throw" (the dance step called a tour jete being a "thrown turn"), and is related to several other words involving the idea of throwing, including project, eject, interject, jettison, jetsam. The word jetty may also apply to a part of a building that projects out from the main structure. Similarly, an adjective is word "thrown against," or added to, a noun.
An inkle is a colorful strip of linen woven on a miniature, portable loom. No one knows the term's origin, but an old idiomatic expression, thick as inkle-weavers meant "extremely close or intimate." The idea was that inkle looms are so small and narrow that the weavers who used them could sit much closer together than weavers using much larger looms.
Quiz Guy John Chaneski's latest brain teaser is about archaic words. For example, what does the following sentence mean? Three times in the last decade the Duchess of Cambridge has experienced accouchement.
David in Livingston, Montana, heard a 1954 radio show in which Frank Sinatra used the phrase sweet and groovy, like a nine-cent movie. Was the word groovy really around in those days? Yes, by 1937, the term had filtered into the mainstream from the language of jazz, where groovy was a compliment applied to musicians with excellent chops. Surprisingly enough, long before that groovy meant "boring," and applied to someone stuck in a rut. This negative sense of the word goes back to at least the 1880s. A 1920 newspaper article used groovy as a noun, referring to someone who doesn't like anything that requires them to change their habits.
Claire from San Antonio, Texas, has a story about misunderstanding a word when she was young. When she saw a book with Thesaurus on the cover, she grabbed it and started reading, thinking she was about to learn about a new type of dinosaur.
If an operator operates, why doesn't a surgeon surge? The word surgeon comes from ancient Greek cheir, which means "hand," and ergon, "work," surgery being a kind of medical treatment done by hand, rather than the work of drugs. These Greek roots are more obvious in the archaic English word for "surgeon," chirurgeon. The word operate comes from the Latin word for "work," the same root of opera, literally "a work," and modus operandi, literally "mode of working."
Sauna is by far the most common everyday word adopted in English from Finnish. A distant second is sisu, a term for "grit" or "determination," which is particularly associated with the hardiness and fortitude of Finns themselves.
Martha shares her childhood misunderstanding of the term State of the Union. Who knew it wasn't an annual contest to determine the best one of all 50 states? 
Bonnie Hearn Hill's essay "What I Wish I'd Known" offers aspiring authors lots of great tips gleaned from Hill's long career of writing books. The essay won a contest sponsored by The Writer magazine.
Robbie in San Antonio, Texas, wonders about an expression he heard from his mother, who spent many years in Germany. If two people have the opportunity to do something, but neither of them does it, she'd say It fell between chairs. In English, we get across the same idea by saying someone sat between two stools or fell between two stools. In fact, versions of the phrases sitting on two chairs or sitting on two stools or falling between two chairs or falling between two stools occur throughout European languages, going all the way back to the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca.
Lisa says her whole canasta group in San Diego, California, wonders if there's a term breasting to denote one's playing cards close to the chest so that others can't see them. New card players often lack proprioception, that is, a perception or awareness of the position of their own bodies and where their limbs are in relation to other players, which means they often fail to breast their cards and accidentally reveal them to competitors. The name of the card game canasta, by the way, comes from Uruguayan Spanish, where canasta means "basket."  
Vince in Norristown, Pennsylvania, is pondering whether the terms couch, sofa, and davenport are all regional terms for the same piece of heavy furniture. The short answer is that throughout the United States, the term couch is the most common, followed by sofa. The term chesterfield is more often heard in Canada, when it is heard at all. For an in-depth look at the wide variety of words we use for the rooms in a house and the objects in them check out Language and Material Culture by Allison Burkette. 
Pam from Denton, Texas, says her mother-in-law always used the expression independent as a hog on ice. A hog that stubbornly gets itself stranded on a sheet of ice is in an extremely awkward position. A passage in the book Jack Shelby: A Story of the Indiana Backwoods describes such an animal as "the helplesstest thing you ever did see in all your born days." 
This episode is hosted by Grant Barrett and Martha Barnette.

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