Winning Slowly

Art, faith, how culture shapes and is shaped by us, and more in The Gray Havens’ latest album

Chris and Stephen have a wide-ranging conversation with Dave Radford of husband-and-wife folk-pop duo The Gray Havens about the value and purpose of art, the business side of the music industry, and the process of putting together their latest album, Ghost of a King.

• Musical influences:
• Simon and Garfunkel
• James Taylor
• Cat Stevens
• Frank Sinatra
• Dean Martin
• Queen
• Coldplay
• Mumford and Sons
• Florence and the Machine
• Fleet Foxes
• Bon Iver
• Lyrical influences:
• The Lord of the Rings
  • the Gray Havens in _The Lord of the Rings
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear, by Patrick Rothfuss
• Other people mentioned on the show
• Jon Foreman
• Ben Shive
• Stephen’s rant on iPods: 1.10: Because Capitalism Yay
• Temple board
• John Piper
  • 0.01: We Need Some Context—in which, in our very first episode, we discussed John Piper and Pope Francis as representing very different styles of using social media. (Also: whoa, that episode is rough…)

• “Shadows of the Dawn,” “Band of Gold,” “Diamonds and Gold,” and “This My Soul” from Ghost of a King by The Gray Havens – used by permission. Go buy this album!
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Who is also deeply inspired by Tolkien, for the record.

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• Andrew Fallows
• Kurt Klassen
  • Jeremy Cherfas
  • Jeremy W. Sherman

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