About this episode

Cindy hosts a discussion with Maya de Vitry and her songwriter friends about Maya's new album and songwriting techniques.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania-born, Nashville-based songwriter Maya de Vitry has been on Basic Folk a half dozen times (she's only second to our fave man-bestie Mark Erelli), because we are so obsessed with her songwriting perspective, from her time in the Stray Birds to her solo work. Every time she's on the show, we try and do something special. She's been on with her siblings (Nina & Lyle), her partner (Ethan Jodziewicz), and her musical besties (Shelby Means & Joel Timmons). When we heard about her fifth studio album, 'All My Faith,' we knew we had to raise the Basic Folk bar on one of the best working songwriters today. When I (Cindy) first heard Maya play these songs live, I thought they were next level. Even though I'm not a musician or songwriter of any kind, I really wanted to know why they were so incredible. I thought it would be a cool exercise to get other songwriter friends of Maya's together to dig deep and explain what's happening with Maya's writing. What is it about the lyrics, the phrasing, the melodies that is really outstanding? Maya was down with this idea and invited Ana Egge, Caitlin Canty, John Craigie, Kristin Andreassen, and Oliver Wood on this episode of…

People in this episode

Host: Cindy

Guests: Oliver Wood, Ana Egge, John Craigie, Kristin Andreassen, Caitlin Canty

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Basic Folk, Stray Birds

Books & works: All My Faith

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