Winning Slowly

Art, faith, how culture shapes and is shaped by us, and more in The Gray Havens’ latest album Show Notes 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. (A