The Third Story Podcast With Leo Sidran

David Poe is a songwriter’s songwriter. He refers to himself as “a songwriter of a certain age”. As a young man in Dayton, Ohio he got his first taste of success by winning a talent competition and using his prize (free studio time) to record what would become his first radio hit. That was back when a young musician might dream of a big record contract. He sings in a new song “Now I’m part of history, when the music cost money but the water was free.”  He has covered a lot of road since then and logged a lot of miles as a performing solo artist, producer, songwriter, collaborator, lecturer, and creative thinker.  David Poe is a kind of Zelig-like figure who appears where you least expect him, and somehow manages to fit right in wherever he shows up. At the same time, his songwriting and singing are distinctive, personal and cultivated. Talking to Poe, one is reminded that at their best, songwriters are our popular philosophers. Rather than creating a diversion from everyday life, they illuminate the human str