{"id":15440,"date":"2012-04-14T17:24:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-14T21:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15440"},"modified":"2012-04-14T17:24:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-14T21:24:57","slug":"listening-to-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15440","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I've picked up recently...<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kdUo17k-5U8\">Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud<\/a><\/strong>. It's shit-kickin' music: raucous and loud and raunchy, big attitude. Though he shares the legend's name, 3's his own man, for sure. About the only musical connection to Sr's legacy are in lyrical references: he likes to call out people who did Sr. wrong. He's definitely not trying to emulate that sweet, subtle poignancy of Sr's songs. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uuu2bXidj2k\">Screaming Females - Ugly<\/a><\/strong>. The way the singer puts a lot of energy and attitude into avoiding singing in key reminds me of really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9gdoUIgWZ5c\">early Throwing Muses<\/a>. But the Muses have better songs. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series #4 (live @ Royal Albert Hall, 1966)<\/strong>. I'm slowly growing fond of Mr. Zimmerman. Took me a long time. I've always heard he rarely plays his songs live the way he originally recorded them. But that must be a recent change - they're all pretty much straight, here.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XQhXYJfI0S8\">Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls<\/a><\/strong>. 60's soul, 70's Stones with hints of the Walkmen and maybe a touch of Black Keys. Very nice. Great singer.<\/p>\n<p>Heard anything you need to tell the world about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few things I've picked up recently... Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud. It's shit-kickin' music: raucous and loud and raunchy, big attitude. Though he shares the legend's name, 3's his own man, for sure. About the only musical connection to Sr's legacy are in lyrical references: he likes to call out people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}