{"id":18720,"date":"2025-09-22T14:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/?p=18720"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:45:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:45:02","slug":"episode-396-meet-shannon-bolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/22\/episode-396-meet-shannon-bolin\/","title":{"rendered":"Episode 396. Meet Shannon Bolin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mega-menu-wrap-primary\" class=\"mega-menu-wrap\"><div class=\"mega-menu-toggle\"><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-left\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-center\"><\/div><div class=\"mega-toggle-blocks-right\"><div class='mega-toggle-block mega-menu-toggle-animated-block mega-toggle-block-1' id='mega-toggle-block-1'><button aria-label=\"Menu\" class=\"mega-toggle-animated mega-toggle-animated-slider\" type=\"button\" aria-haspopup=\"true\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"mega-menu-primary\">\n                  <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-box\">\n                    <span class=\"mega-toggle-animated-inner\"><\/span>\n                  <\/span>\n                <\/button><\/div><\/div><\/div><ul id=\"mega-menu-primary\" class=\"mega-menu max-mega-menu mega-menu-horizontal mega-no-js\" data-event=\"hover_intent\" data-effect=\"slide\" data-effect-speed=\"200\" data-effect-mobile=\"slide\" data-effect-speed-mobile=\"200\" data-mobile-force-width=\"body\" data-second-click=\"go\" data-document-click=\"collapse\" data-vertical-behaviour=\"standard\" data-breakpoint=\"600\" data-unbind=\"true\" data-mobile-state=\"collapse_all\" data-mobile-direction=\"vertical\" data-hover-intent-timeout=\"300\" data-hover-intent-interval=\"100\"><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-menu-item-home mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19160\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19160\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/\">Home<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19161\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19161\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/about-daniel\/\">About Daniel<\/a><\/li><li class=\"mega-menu-item mega-menu-item-type-post_type mega-menu-item-object-page mega-current_page_parent mega-align-bottom-left mega-menu-flyout mega-menu-item-19171\" id=\"mega-menu-item-19171\"><a class=\"mega-menu-link\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/index.php\/all-episodes\/\">All Episodes<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode 396. Meet Shannon Bolin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"340\" height=\"50\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/?powerpress_embed=1691-podcast&amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>SOCIAL SHARE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><strong>SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-horizontal is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-7e5fce0a wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link no-border-radius wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/countermelody.blubrry.net\/\">SUBSCRIBE VIA YOUR FAVORITE PODCAST PLATFORM<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"903\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-903x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-903x1024.jpg 903w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-768x871.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 903px) 100vw, 903px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Today\u2019s episode celebrates a prime example of that <em>rara avis<\/em>, the Broadway contralto, the fascinating and little-remembered Shannon Bolin (01 January 1917 \u2013 25 March 2016). Her career covered the gamut from opera to Broadway covering all points along that continuum. In the year 1955, she and her husband, pianist, composer, and conductor Milton Kaye made two albums covering a range of material. The first, entitled <em>Rare Wine<\/em>, consists of \u201ca bouquet of rare vintage,\u201d lesser-known songs by Rodgers and Hart (and Rodgers and Hammerstein), George and Ira Gershwin, Jerome Kern and Dorothy Fields, Vernon Duke and Ogden Nash, Bart Howard, No\u00ebl Coward, and Alec Wilder; the second LP consists entirely of songs of Alec Wilder, including his song cycle <em>Songs for Patricia<\/em>, composed to poems by Norman Rosten dedicated to his young daughter. The episode also includes two highlights from Bolin\u2019s stage career, from <em>Damn Yankees<\/em> and the 1969 off-Broadway smash <em>Promenade<\/em>, and closes with my favorite Alec Wilder song, the heartbreaking \u201cDid You Ever Cross Over to Sneden\u2019s?\u201d that serves as a memorial tribute to my dear friend from years gone by, Matthew Lau, whose death was just announced this past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a link to the interview with Patricia Rosten that I mentioned in the episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themarilynreport.com\/2022\/05\/09\/patricia-rosten-remembers-marilyn\/\">https:\/\/themarilynreport.com\/2022\/05\/09\/patricia-rosten-remembers-marilyn\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:47px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-size\" style=\"font-size:30px\"><strong> RECORDINGS HEARD IN THIS EPISODE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:55px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"599\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Choker.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Choker.jpg 480w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Choker-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>All songs feature Shannon Bolin, contralto and, unless otherwise noted, were recorded in 1955 and are accompanied by her husband Milton Kaye, either on piano, or leading his orchestra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"914\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alec-Wilder-with-Pipe.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alec-Wilder-with-Pipe.jpg 984w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alec-Wilder-with-Pipe-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alec-Wilder-with-Pipe-768x713.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alec Wilder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, Arnold Sundgaard: Cedars Are Falling<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, James Stephens: The Colleen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, Arnold Sundgaard: Where Do You Go?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder: The Plowman<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Smiling-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Smiling-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Smiling-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Smiling-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Smiling-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-Smiling.jpg 1236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-in-Damn-Yankees-Film.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19060\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-in-Damn-Yankees-Film.png 741w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-in-Damn-Yankees-Film-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-in-Damn-Yankees-Film-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shannon Bolin in the 1958 <em>Damn Yankees <\/em>film<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Adler: There\u2019s Something About an Empty Chair (<em>Damn Yankees<\/em> film). Orchestra conducted by Ray Heindorf [1958]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"562\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hunter-Bolin.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hunter-Bolin.png 562w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Hunter-Bolin-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tab Hunter and Shannon Bolin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"758\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Madeline-Kahn-Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-in-Promenade-1024x758.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19062\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Madeline-Kahn-Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-in-Promenade-1024x758.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Madeline-Kahn-Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-in-Promenade-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Madeline-Kahn-Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-in-Promenade-768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Madeline-Kahn-Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-in-Promenade.png 1150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Madeline Kahn, Shannon Bolin, Ty McConnell, and Gilbert Price in <em>Promenade<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Al Carmines, Maria Irene Fornes: I Saw a Man (<em>Promenade<\/em>). Orchestra conducted by Susan Romann [1969]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" data-id=\"19063\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-Promenade-1024x769.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-Promenade-1024x769.png 1024w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-Promenade-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-Promenade-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Ty-McConnell-Gilbert-Price-Promenade.png 1114w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shannon Bolin Ty McConnell, and Gilbert Price in <em>Promenade<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"582\" height=\"747\" data-id=\"19064\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Pierre-Epstein-Promenade-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Pierre-Epstein-Promenade-2.png 582w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Shannon-Bolin-Pierre-Epstein-Promenade-2-234x300.png 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 582px) 100vw, 582px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shannon Bolin and Pierre Epstein in <em>Promenade<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"599\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rare-Wine-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19055\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rare-Wine-Cover.jpg 599w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rare-Wine-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Rare-Wine-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Rare Wine<\/em><\/strong>. Shannon Bolin, Milton Kaye and His Orchestra, arrangements by George Brackman [Vanguard Records, 1955]<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"604\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Milton-Kaye-Piano-TRIMMED.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Milton-Kaye-Piano-TRIMMED.png 604w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Milton-Kaye-Piano-TRIMMED-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Milton Kaye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields: I Got Love (<em>I Dream Too Much<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart: He Was too Good to Me (<em>Simple Simon<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin: Someone from Somewhere (<em>Delicious<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jerome Moross, John LaTouche: Yellow Flower (<em>Ballet Ballads<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank Loesser: My Time of Day (<em>Guys and Dolls<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II: Loneliness of Evening (cut from <em>South Pacific<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bart Howard: My Love Is a Wanderer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Johann Strauss II (adapted), Edward Eager: One More Spring (<em>Waltz Down the Aisle<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditional Scots: I Know Where I\u2019m Going<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vernon Duke, Ogden Nash: Just Like a Man (<em>Two\u2019s Company<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No\u00ebl Coward: The Party\u2019s Over Now (<em>Words and Music<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"598\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Songs-for-Patricia-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Songs-for-Patricia-Cover.jpg 598w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Songs-for-Patricia-Cover-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Songs-for-Patricia-Cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Songs for Patricia and Other Music of Alec Wilder<\/em><\/strong>. Shannon Bolin, Milton Kaye [Riverside Records, 1955]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, Norman Rosten: <em>Songs for Patricia<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I. Now that you\u2019re born<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>II. Darling, those are birds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>III. Wake up<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IV. The year has wakened<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>V. One day, from your sleep<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VI. This is my name<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>VII. Shall I write you a poem?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IX. What did you do outside today?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>IX. Before you went down the longest stair<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>X. Goodbye, goodbye, I\u2019m going away<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, Ben Ross Berenberg: Winter of Our Discontent (from <em>Rare Wine<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder, Gerard Manley Hopkins: Margaret<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alec Wilder: Did You Ever Cross Over to Sneden\u2019s?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"868\" height=\"573\" data-id=\"19069\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Tab-Hunter-at-TH-Memoir-Release-Party.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Tab-Hunter-at-TH-Memoir-Release-Party.png 868w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Tab-Hunter-at-TH-Memoir-Release-Party-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Tab-Hunter-at-TH-Memoir-Release-Party-768x507.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tab Hunter and Shannon Bolin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\" data-id=\"19068\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Cheyenne-Jackson-Yankees-Encores.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Cheyenne-Jackson-Yankees-Encores.png 400w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Bolin-and-Cheyenne-Jackson-Yankees-Encores-199x300.png 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Shannon Bolin and Cheyenne Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"706\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Elderly-Bolin-2008-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Elderly-Bolin-2008-2.png 706w, https:\/\/countermelodypodcast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Elderly-Bolin-2008-2-271x300.png 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 396. Meet Shannon Bolin SOCIAL SHARE SUBSCRIPTION PLATFORM Today\u2019s episode celebrates a prime example of that rara avis, 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