Cloudy Day Art #25 – Hip-Hop artist Listener interview

Hey Everybody,
This week’s show is an interview I conducted with hip-hop artist Listener, aka Dan Smith. This interview was recorded on the Friday before he started his “Tour of Homes“. Go see a show!!!
Here’s this week’s breakdown:

01:15 Slam Idol Podcast voting promo (I’m in this competition!)
02:30 Slam Idol interview with Stephen Fry
04:40 Second Sunday #2 theme from Belinda : “Personal Growth”
05:50 New to site: My Blog page
06:24 Listener Interview begins
09:30 Creating a hip-hop album
11:23 Listener’s two favorite songs off of “Ozark Empire”
14:34 The life of a traveling saleman
15:15 “Tour of Homes” defined
18:32 Bring food!
19:34 New CD out in 2006, including beats from Dust of Mars Ill
21:20 Do you “freestyle”?
23:01 International touring?
25:22 Conversations with a deer
27:21 Listener on poetry
32:06 Outro song: Listener – “Officer You Have the Wrong Man, I am Not That Man”

Total time: 35:15

Links mentioned by Listener:
DeepSpace5
Sphere of Hip Hop
Listener’s MySpace page

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Tags:hip-hop:Listener

Belinda

Enjoyed the show. I like his music and his name: Listener. Nothing more valuable than a good listener. We all need them.

I'll send something for 2nd Sunday within a couple of weeks.
Will

Ah, you are correct, Sir. Thanks!

I'm looking forward to hearing your interview.

Will
Simon

Nice interview with The Listener, Will. He's an interesting guy, and it was great to hear the story behind those intriguing tracks.
Thanks for talking about Slam Idol on the show, and playing both promos. A minor correction, though: actually 4 poets in the current Slam Idol contest have been on Cloudy Day Art: Belinda Subraman, Larry Winfield, Patricia Irvine and you.
Stephen Fry's book is coming out this Thursday, and my interview with him should be coming out around the same time... http://slamidol.tripod.com