{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Smoke Trail","title":"The Smoke Trail: S2 E53: Love at First Sound - Singer Songwriter Anitra Carr, Heartache Sky","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3945,"description":"THE SMOKE TRAIL  |  SEASON 2  |  EPISODE 53\n\nLove at First Sound\n\nAnitra Carr on the Voice, the Door Held Open, and Heartache Sky\n\nMetadata\nEpisode: S2E53\nTitle: Love at First Sound\nSubtitle: Anitra Carr on the Voice, the Door Held Open, and Heartache Sky\nGuest: Anitra Carr, singer-songwriter, Siren Song Productions (Sedona, Arizona)\nRuntime: 1:05:44\nRecorded: In person, Sedona, September 2026\nRelease: September 2026, alongside the single Heartache Sky (out September 25, 2026)\nGuest links: anitracarr.com, and the full list under Where to Find Anitra below\nEpisode Hook\nAfter fifty-two episodes, Smoke’s guest is the person who has had the closest seat to every story he tells on this show: his wife, Anitra Carr. Singer-songwriter, stepmother to his four children, coach and spiritual guide, and the girl from the Bronx who became the girl from Sedona by way of Colorado, Indiana, and California.\nThey start in a first-grade church pew where a nun with a guitar called her up to sing, run through a Broadway cattle call for Annie, a ballet injury that turned into a commercial career, and a Denver band that won the town. Then the harder ground: her mother’s death, the years of numbing and then healing that followed, and a list written on a sailboat a month before Smoke walked into her restaurant and fumbled with the piano player’s microphone.\nFrom there the conversation turns to the trail they walked together: Whistler, the burning of the forgiveness letters, the books she handed him, and how a Catholic schoolgirl found Deepak Chopra through Oprah. It closes on her new single, Heartache Sky, released with the harvest moon, a lightning round she did not see coming, a live pass through the Johari Window, and the one thing she wants every listener to hear: it is never too late.\nIn This Episode\n•    Sister Eileen’s guitar, a park bench where the older kids made her sing for her curfew, and a church that was the only quiet place in her childhood\n•    Six hundred girls at an open...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/GLQIccuHv_JUEWKoEIFMJBnneGY8IDvT3pA_q5BOBe8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85OTEx/YjI1YTJmZmU3NjQz/YTZhZjRlYjllZjMw/M2U1Yi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}