The Memory Palace: The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American

About this episode

This episode features a story from The Memory Palace that inspired a song on Hrishikesh Hirway's upcoming album.

Today, we're sharing an episode of Nate DiMeo's wonderful podcast, The Memory Palace, which helped inspire both Song Exploder, and a song on my upcoming album. So today, I want to present a kind of two-part story. The first part: "The Thundering Herd, The Vanishing American," from The Memory Palace. And in the second half of the episode, I’ll tell you how it ended up unexpectedly unlocking a song that I’d been trying to figure out. For more episodes of The Memory Palace, visit thememorypalace.us. To pre-order my album visit keeledscales.com. To get tickets to one of my shows on tour, visit hrishikesh.co .

People in this episode

Host: Hrishikesh Hirway

Topics covered

• storytelling
• music inspiration
• podcast crossover
• song development
• American history

Keywords

• The Memory Palace
• Nate DiMeo
• song inspiration
• American history
• Hrishikesh Hirway

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Memory Palace, Keeled Scales, hrishikesh.co

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