Welcome to the first Sandfly Songwriter Series live music podcast episode with host Josephine Johnson, recorded for a live audience at Driftaway Café in history Sandfly, Savannah, Georgia.
Josephine introduces Savannah-based songwriter and performer Aaron Paul Zimmer, noting his work with the folk bluegrass trio City Hotel, solo gigs around town, and his background growing up near Cartersville, Georgia, attending UGA, and teaching eighth grade English. Zimmer performs “Cutting Teeth,” “Anything But Everything,” the City Hotel bluegrass murder ballad “Katie Brown,” and “Like They Used To,” which he co-wrote with his wife, who contributed old-movie details.
In conversation, he describes moving with his parents to an off-grid cabin at 12, reading, walking the woods, and developing his songwriting and guitar playing, which his father first taught him. Audience questions cover his favorite cereals, whether he writes lyrics or music first, musical inspirations, and how teaching gives him hope through his students’ peaceful diversity.
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VISIT DRIFTAWAY CAFE
MEET JOSEPHINE JOHNSON
MEET AARON PAUL ZIMMER
LIVE MUSIC, SOUND & PRODUCTION TEAM DEE DANIELS MEDIA
FIND A FAVORITE SPOT IN THIS EPISODE:
00:00 Meet Aaron Paul Zimmer
02:24 Housekeeping and Questions
03:39 First Songs Live
09:50 Roots in the Woods
13:30 Bluegrass Murder Ballad
19:05 Audience Q and A Fun
21:43 Writing Process Talk
23:35 Like They Used To
27:46 Teaching and Hope
29:36 Musical Inspirations
27:57 Closing Thanks
May 29 202642 mins