{"591271":{"#nid":"591271","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Andi Rogers releases the blackout sessions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/3bdbc9e6-285a-5351-9900-50a082fb93af\u0022\u003EAndi\u0026nbsp;Rogers\u003C\/a\u003E wears many hats: she is\u0026nbsp;a musician (andi., Night Driving in Small Towns, star-splitter), a\u0026nbsp;poet (Ph.D. in Poetry, Georgia State University, 2016), and a\u0026nbsp;professor of writing at Georgia Tech. But her greatest love, and the one that she returns to time and time again, is writing lyrics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003ERogers\u0026#39;\u0026nbsp;second solo EP, \u003Cem\u003Ethe blackout sessions,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;was released on\u0026nbsp;all digital platforms\u0026nbsp;February 17th, 2017.\u0026nbsp;The songs on the new EP are a bit of a departure for Rogers, both musically and lyrically, and were written in the\u0026nbsp;wake of a massive transition: the unexpected end of a long-term relationship that had\u0026nbsp;spanned nearly a decade. \u0026quot;It felt like a divorce,\u0026quot; Rogers says, \u0026quot;and everyone knows divorce records are the most heartbreakingly easy to write.\u0026quot; As a result, several lyrical themes emerged, including: the search for truth in a post-truth world, the seductive power of nostalgia, the ways in which we deal with loss, and, in a song-length nod to the movie\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind\u003C\/em\u003E, the question of whether or not we can somehow erase our pasts or fix our mistakes.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003ERogers\u0026#39; future plans include another solo release in the near future. The content this time,\u0026nbsp;she says, will be much like that found in her poems: \u0026quot;that most dangerous of combinations -- the artistic outburst which marries public-facing politics with personal experience.\u0026quot;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELink to \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003Ethe blackout sessions \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Eon\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBandcamp*:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/andimusicatl.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-blackout-sessions\u0022 id=\u0022LPlnk112650\u0022 rel=\u0022noopener noreferrer\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/andimusicatl.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-blackout-sessions\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;*Also available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Music, Youtube, etc.\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Brittain Fellow Andi Rogers releases her second solo EP"}],"uid":"30268","created_gmt":"2017-05-03 13:20:36","changed_gmt":"2017-05-03 13:20:36","author":"Monica Miller","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-05-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"591269":{"id":"591269","type":"image","title":"Andi album 1","body":null,"created":"1493817298","gmt_created":"2017-05-03 13:14:58","changed":"1493817298","gmt_changed":"2017-05-03 13:14:58","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225300","name":"AndiHiRes1.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AndiHiRes1.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AndiHiRes1.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":102405,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AndiHiRes1.jpg?itok=v3iAerMK"}},"591270":{"id":"591270","type":"image","title":"Andi album 2","body":null,"created":"1493817363","gmt_created":"2017-05-03 13:16:03","changed":"1493817363","gmt_changed":"2017-05-03 13:16:03","alt":"","file":{"fid":"225301","name":"AndiHiRes2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AndiHiRes2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/AndiHiRes2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35289,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/AndiHiRes2.jpg?itok=5VUidGSZ"}}},"media_ids":["591269","591270"],"groups":[{"id":"491031","name":"Writing and Communication Program"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}