veterans Archives | NICKSAV Film & Music SHOW http://podcast.nsavides.com/tag/veterans/ For filmmakers, musicians, & creative people who do amazing things and want to make the world better in some way. Mon, 05 Nov 2018 07:25:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 59503089 Mary Gauthier: Bob Dylan, Grand Ole Opry, & Veterans are Her Fans https://podcast.nsavides.com/mary-gauthier-bob-dylan-grand-ole-opry-veterans-are-her-fans/ Sat, 11 Nov 2017 14:33:18 +0000 http://podcast.nsavides.com/?p=1743 Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier has had her songs recorded by the likes of Blake Shelton, Jimmy Buffett, and Tim McGraw and has made several appearances at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, but I was particularly impressed to learn that Bob Dylan knows Mary’s story and featured her work in one of his music showcases. One […]

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Singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier podcast interview

One of the causes that Mary is passionate about is helping veterans to work through the trauma that they faced in combat. She has partnered with SongwritingWith:Soldiers to collaborate with veterans to write songs that explore the emotional truths of their war-time experiences. This cause is so important to Mary that she partnered with Veterans Airlift Command to fly in veteran Josh Geartz so that perform with her at the Grand Ole Opry.

This connection can save lives. It literally can save lives.” – Mary Gauthier

Mary’s upcoming album, Rifles & Rosary Beads, comes out in January 2018, and all the songs in it are co-written with veterans connected to SongwritingWith:Soldiers. Mary and her team graciously shared “Bullet Holes in the Sky,” one of the songs from the new album, which you can hear it at the end of our episode.

Some of the things that we discuss include

  • How Mary’s early traumas shaped her development as an artist
  • Mary’s approach to getting her songs on the radar of prominent recording artists
  • A technique for getting laconic veterans to open up about the struggles they’ve faced
  • Why taking care of our veterans is a unifying issue across the political spectrum
  • How can artists effectively speak up about challenging social issues
  • Finding success in the music industry while staying sober
  • Learning to listen for the God lines

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Want to hear another veteran-related episode?

Check out this interview with Justin Roberts, a chaplain who followed his battalion into Afghanistan and back and made a documentary called No Greater Love, currently in select theaters.

General Stanley McCrystal said of the film “No Greater Love cuts to the heart of why our warriors serve and needs to be seen by every American.” Show notes are here.

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Based in Louisiana, Fable House is a production company that has produced millions of dollars worth of content. Their team has done vfx work for projects like Game of Thrones, X-Men: Days of Future Past, Star Trek: Into Darkness and they’ve worked with or shot for Dr. John, Essence Festival, Kendrick Lamar, Ron Howard’s company New Form Digital, and Jared Leto’s Thirty Seconds to Mars.

 

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Music for the show provided by Rob Costlow

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Music Mentioned

  • Mary’s songs
    • “I Drink” (recorded by Tim McGraw)
    • “Mercy Now”
    • “Wheel Inside the Wheel” (recorded by Jimmy Buffett)
    • “Worthy” (cowritten with Beth Nielsen, recorded by Bettye LaVette)

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]]> 1743 On Redeployment & War Stories with Phil Klay, Writer & Marine https://podcast.nsavides.com/on-redeployment-war-stories-with-phil-klay-writer-marine/ Sun, 24 May 2015 03:57:42 +0000 http://podcast.nsavides.com/?p=433 Phil Klay‘s book Redeployment was awarded the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. In the style of The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam-war classic, Redeployment is a compilation of stories told from various perspectives of American soldiers involved in the Iraq war. Phil is a Marine Captain who served in Iraq’s Anbar province from January 2007 […]

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]]> Phil Klay‘s book Redeployment was awarded the 2014 National Book Award for fiction. In the style of The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s Vietnam-war classic, Redeployment is a compilation of stories told from various perspectives of American soldiers involved in the Iraq war. Phil is a Marine Captain who served in Iraq’s Anbar province from January 2007 to February 2008, and writing the book allowed him to reflect on his war experiences and the experiences of his colleagues.

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Photo of Phil, PhilKlay.com

 

In this episode we talk about his book, but also war stories as a genre, how war stories affect the ways our society thinks about war, and the light and dark tones that come with the territory.

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  • Phil’s website: philklay.com
  • Phil’s article for The Wall Street Journal, about how PTSD is used to stigmatize veterans and why veterans are worthy of respect. Written a year ago on May 23, 2014.
  • Phil’s article for The New York Times where he explains why we shouldn’t say “I COULD never imagine what you’ve been through” to soldiers. Instead he suggests that we should use our own experiences to empathize with theirs.
  • Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, a novel written by Ben Fountain that works as a companion piece to Redeployment. Soon to be a motion picture directed by Ang Lee.
  • Other related war stories include The Yellow Birds, written by Kevin Powers, and The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick.
  • American Sniper is a good starting point to learn more about Chris Kyle’s story, but for an expanded view, I recommend reading the American Sniper book as well as American Wife, the book written by Chris’s wife, Taya Kyle, after Chris was killed.
  • Art of Charm episode with Veteran Jon Davis where they talk about how we can help veterans transition to civilian life and why businesses should hire more of them.

 

Notable connections

There is no guarantee that these connections mean anything substantial (but honestly if you want a guarantee, you’re probably on the wrong page). They might be mere coincidences. Still, they are notable, are they not …

  • Phil’s deployment happened during the year when my dad died, one of the most destabilizing experiences of my life. It was also when the Giants won the Super Bowl. That win was one of the inciting incidents that indirectly led to the event to which I alluded in the podcast.
  • What It Is Like To Go To War, the book by Karl Marlantes, was also mentioned in the PTSD episode with Mac McLelland, which happened exactly a month ago. That interview was posted on April 23rd, the same day that Phil requested we do our interview.

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