{"id":28449,"date":"2018-09-26T09:53:16","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T13:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28449"},"modified":"2018-09-26T13:28:23","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:28:23","slug":"toad-the-wet-sprocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=28449","title":{"rendered":"Toad The Wet Sprocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Toad The Wet Sprocket last night, in Durham. Mrs. C is the Toad fan in our house, but I still somehow knew probably 2\/3 of the songs they played. They were laid-back and unassuming on stage, as you would expect if you're familiar with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=12bM1CqHoBY\">their music<\/a>. And for some reason, they were about 4x too loud for a band that uses nicely-crafted vocal harmonies in all their songs. What I could make out, through the pummeling, crushing roar of the PA sounded good. So, that was a good time.<\/p>\n<p>We'd never heard of the opening act so we lingered at dinner before the show. And we got there in time to hear their last two and a half songs. There was a woman singing and her husband on acoustic guitar, doing some pleasant folky stuff. The final song, introduced as a \"new\" song was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8N-qO3sPMjc\">Sixpence None The Richer's \"Kiss Me\"<\/a>. The crowd was excited when she started singing it. And, as the song went on, I started thinking \"Odd choice for a cover. But she's doing a really good job of this.\" When she was done, I pulled out my phone and looked it up and, yes, the woman was Leigh Nash, the singer for Sixpence None The Richer. <\/p>\n<p>So, a very 90s evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saw Toad The Wet Sprocket last night, in Durham. Mrs. C is the Toad fan in our house, but I still somehow knew probably 2\/3 of the songs they played. They were laid-back and unassuming on stage, as you would expect if you're familiar with their music. And for some reason, they were about 4x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449","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=28449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28455,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28449\/revisions\/28455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}