356. Stan Grant on Jonathan Wilson 'Gentle Spirit' (2011)

<p>Today, Australian broadcasting legend <strong>Stan Grant</strong> joins me to talk about friend of the show <strong>Jonathan Wilson</strong>’s quasi-debut ‘Gentle Spirit’. Stan opens up about how he discovered the record while dealing with PTSD and the emotional fall out of years embedded in war zones as a foreign correspondent.<br /> We talk about how this album revealed Wilson as a songwriter and artist in his own right, as he was mainly known as a great producer and instrumentalist. We break down the influences on the record, from <strong>Neil Young</strong> to <strong>Pink Floyd</strong> to <strong>The Beatles</strong> and more, and how Wilson stays on the right side of inspiration rather than pastiche.<br /> We talk about why Stan never became a musician himself, his memories of seeing Wilson play live in LA and how music has influenced Stan’s writing.</p>