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From , WGC you news this is golf coastline. I’m John Davis today’s edition of the show features music and conversation with Southwest Florida guitarist and singer-songwriter Matt Walden , at just 23 years old , Walden , is a prolific songwriter who performs at venues throughout the region , and he’s already produced 3 studio albums of his original music with more in the works . While his unique style blends a broad spectrum of musical genres and is often characterized by his silky smooth vocals and catchy rhythms well here selections of Matt Walton’s original music recorded live in the WGC you studios and learn more about his musical background and his approach to writing new SARCs .
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Live from NPR News. In Washington , I’m Lakshmi federal investigators are on the scene of a shooting at a Rite Aid distribution center in Aberdeen Maryland authorities are reporting multiple fatalities and wounded but exact numbers have not been confirmed . Harper County Sheriff Jeff Keller says the shooter has been arrested .
Lone suspects in this incident is in custody and is in critical condition at a local hospital. It appears to be a single weapon that was used a handgun and there were no shots fired by any of the law enforcement officers responding to the scene .
This attack took place nearly 3 months after a deadly attack on a newsroom in Annapolis , Maryland. Still no word on whether the Senate Judiciary Committee will hear Monday from the woman who accuses Supreme Court nominee wreck have enough sexually assaulting her when they were in high school in the 1980s NPR’s to medical mountaineer reports on what a delay in the process could mean for the GOP . Not only .
Do they want to get him on the Supreme Court quickly but they want to make sure that they get him confirmed before or a nominee confirmed before the November elections because there is an outside chance of Democrats take back the Senate.
That’s NPR’s a medical narrow this coming as a new poll finds that Americans are sharply divided by party and also by gender about why there are not more women in elected office. Here’s NPR’s Daniel Kurtz labor .
The poll from the Pew Research Center finds that 6 in 10 Americans believe there are too few women in high political office but , Americans are divided sharply on that question with Democrats more likely than Republicans and women more likely than men to believe there are too few women elected officials. There are also sharp divisions on why there aren’t more women in office , Republican men in particular are much less likely than Republican women or Democratic men or women to say that gender discrimination and sexual harassment are keeping women out of office , Republican men are also less likely to think it’s because women need to do more to prove themselves . The poll comes as a record number of women are running for Congress in the midterm elections , the bulk of them Democrats . Daniel Kurtzer even NPR News , Washington hurricane Florence .
Evacuees in North Carolina starting to return home even as floodwaters continue to rise in some areas we have more from NPR’s Jason Bell.
Another shelter here are set up in the gym of a Community College , the number of residents has dropped from more than 500 last week to now just under 150-73 year old Wesley Turner is one of them , he says. Florence pushed a foot and a half of water into his mobile home . He also had to flee floodwaters 2 years ago .
I’ve been around a lot of rubbish settle down and have a home and I can have a home just water system that keeps mess and everybody up.
The damage this time is so great , he doesn’t expect to be able to return to his trailer Turner says he’s been asking about FEMA assistance , but so far hasn’t gotten any answers. He has no idea where he is going to go once the floodwaters finally subside .
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This is golf course live from WGC you I’m John Davis. Thanks for joining us for today’s edition of the program were joined in the studio for the hour of conversation of live music by Naples guitarist and singer-songwriter Matt Walton style captures a unique blend of catchy rhythms with his silky smooth vocals and songs often inspired by his personal experiences . But those lyrics explore these themes first kisses 2 failed relationships and that are broadly relatable to his listening audience . Walton is just 23 years old and currently studying business marketing here at Fort a Gulf Coast University but he still finds the time to perform prolific Lee at venues in the Naples area and throughout southwest Florida . He’s also taken his music on the road performing a coffee houses and other larger venues throughout the northeastern US his first EP titled Life dropped in 2015 and reached number 7 on the iTunes singer-songwriter top album chart his album Walden followed in 20 2016 and his latest EP alive became available last year his latest singles , superficial Yellow Rose and milestone have all dropped this year . His music is available through Amazon Music iTunes Apple music Spotify and sound cloud and through his Web page Matt Walden music Dotcom mad Walden . Welcome to Gulf Coast life was going on . Hi . And I know to our listeners today’s conversation and performances were recorded live in our studio but today’s broadcast itself is not live so we won’t be taking calls from listeners today , but you can still get in touch with your comments and questions were on Facebook a WGC you public media and on Twitter at WGC you use the hashtag GC . And first of all amount you know my introduction aside , how would you characterize the the scope of the styles and genres of music that you write and perform .
I I I don’t I don’t like the box of genre. So it’s definitely whenever I’ve been listening to whatever on I can put it closer I’m I’m bad at this . No , I I can’t , I can’t do it in a box , it’s definitely more of whatever I listening to a lot of Lily I could write a country song . I could write a hip hop song at Corona pop song . It all depends . I’m not a rapper at that , I will . I will get out occasionally . Yes . No I’m I’m definitely not the best rap him but I will dabble at quick poetry lines throughout science , you know .
And who would you say are some of your greatest musical influences like either from you know early childhood or just other musicians who influenced you today.
I I think every every musician.
Mainly I’m influenced by like her life well.
That’s probably me my too close. No no no no about was me . That’s right . Okay . Probably just life and I don’t really have too many crazy musical influences . I just kind of taken pick and choose from everyone .
Well , let’s just go back to the beginning of the guitars is clearly your primary instrument now but is that where you started musically.
No , I didn’t actually the guitar was kind of a fluke my mom’s forcing me to take piano lessons at the age of 5. Wow . Yeah . I hated it it was torture . I like this is , this is the worst thing why you making me do this , and then you know I moved a guitar like 13 and started picking that up because I was like , I can do this . This is what I wanna do you know . Thinking you know what’s up mom didn’t have to tell me how to do that one .
Welcome back to that in just a minute , but let’s just jump right in and here you perform first I’ll tell us what you’re going to be playing for us first and tell us a little bit about the song by way of introduction.
Let’s get the really cheesy pop song out of the way. Okay .
So , this one’s called with you I I actually wrote it sitting out of my mom’s back porch and I just kind of wanted to write a happy good vibe kinda fun song that people can sing along during the summertime. So I was like I , let’s do it . So it’s called with you .
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