{"id":413,"date":"2010-04-01T00:01:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T05:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=413"},"modified":"2015-03-23T13:04:35","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T19:04:35","slug":"song-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/413","title":{"rendered":"Breathe Owl Breathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Dog Walkers of the New Age<\/h6>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-413-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/nashvillereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/Dog-Walkers-of-The-New-Age.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/Dog-Walkers-of-The-New-Age.mp3\">\/nashvillereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2010\/03\/Dog-Walkers-of-The-New-Age.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h6><a title=\"Spring 2010 Contributors\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/693\">Breathe Owl Breathe<\/a><\/h6>\n<p>is Micah Middaugh, Andr\u00e9a Moreno-Beals, and Trevor Hobbs.\u00a0 They live\u00a0in a log cabin together in East Jordan, Michigan. &#8211; <em>Zachary Greenberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg:\u00a0 &#8220;Dog Walkers of The New Age&#8221; is extremely rich in image, with lines like &#8220;see the necklace of lights over the bridge tonight&#8221;\u00a0 and &#8220;the city is alive, it blinks its eyes.&#8221;\u00a0 Are there any poets or other writers who have inspired you all to take this imagistic approach to songwriting?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Middaugh:\u00a0 Moondog, Roald Dahl, and Saul Williams.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg:\u00a0 How has the landscape of Northern Michigan influenced your music?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Middaugh: There&#8217;s something magical about Northern artists.\u00a0 I&#8217;m talkin&#8217; tundra tales.\u00a0 I&#8217;m inspired by the Inuits, in both songwriting and\u00a0printmaking, and perhaps storytelling.\u00a0 Keep things simple and visual.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greenberg:\u00a0 Who are the &#8220;Dog Walkers Of The New Age?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Middaugh: &#8220;Dog Walkers Of The New Age&#8221; is folklore set in the city.\u00a0 The city is alive under the paws and toes.\u00a0 We are flowing through the city&#8217;s blood stream.\u00a0 There is a game that Andrea, Trevor, and I play on the road: if you see a dog, you try to be the first to yell out &#8220;dog I win!&#8221; (and then you win).\u00a0 If you see a dog walker that resembles their dog, everyone wins.\u00a0 After all,\u00a0we&#8217;re\u00a0all dogs, give or take.<\/p>\n<p><em>Go <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1745\" href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/413\/dog-walkers-of-the-new-age-2\">here<\/a> <\/em><em>to download &#8220;Dog Walkers Of The New Age&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dog Walkers of the New Age Breathe Owl Breathe is Micah Middaugh, Andr\u00e9a Moreno-Beals, and Trevor Hobbs.\u00a0 They live\u00a0in a log cabin together in East Jordan, Michigan. &#8211; Zachary Greenberg Greenberg:\u00a0 &#8220;Dog Walkers of The New Age&#8221; is extremely rich in image, with lines like &#8220;see the necklace of lights over the bridge tonight&#8221;\u00a0 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[32],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-6F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11496,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/11496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}