{"id":108,"date":"2026-01-29T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:05:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:05:03","slug":"the-story-behind-the-song-new-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/the-story-behind-the-song-new-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"The Story Behind the Song: \u201cNew Heart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Substantially written April 17, 2001, with the working title &#8220;Young&#8221;.\u00a0 The bridge and the three-part counterpoint at the end were added later, as I recall.\u00a0 I heard Beck doing some counterpoint on <em>Midnite Vultures<\/em> and thought I\u2019d try it. The lyrics were written during a period of depression, and are an attempt at optimism and encouragement; they&#8217;re addressed to myself as well as one or two other friends going through rough patches at around the same time.\u00a0 Originally recorded in 2002; I re-recorded new drums, bass and acoustic guitar in 2009.\u00a0 It was also in Mother Zephyr&#8217;s live repertoire.I recorded the video for the song in 2023 in a friend\u2019s back yard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substantially written April 17, 2001, with the working title &#8220;Young&#8221;.\u00a0 The bridge and the three-part counterpoint at the end were added later, as I recall.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/the-story-behind-the-song-new-heart\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Story Behind the Song: \u201cNew Heart\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,10,11,7],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories-behind-the","tag-independent-music","tag-indie","tag-indie-music","tag-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wendyhearl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}