{"id":730,"date":"2005-08-15T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-15T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=730"},"modified":"2005-08-15T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-15T10:15:00","slug":"leon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"Leon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the Cat's Cradle last night. Here's the men's room:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/cats_cradle_bathroom.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>Sony P7<\/div>\n<p>We saw the legendary Leon Redbone, the deep-voiced <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leon_Redbone\">man of mystery<\/a> who sings tunes that were popular 70 years ago. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/leon_redbone.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>Sony P7<\/div>\n<p>He did a set full of standards like My Blue Heaven and Shine On Harvest Moon. And, he whistled one song over a pre-recorded track of someone playing the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minermusic.com\/dolceola\/fretless_zithers.htm\">zither<\/a>; he's an <i>amazing<\/i> whistler (not that I've ever seen anyone whistle on stage before) - I had no idea people could make those sounds, or hit notes so accurately, without an instrument of some kind. Most of his songs, though, were him on guitar, a trumpet player and a pianist - all excellent players - funny, too. Good show.<\/p>\n<p>There was an alarming number of middle-aged men in Hawaiian shirts in the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Went to the Cat's Cradle last night. Here's the men's room: Sony P7 We saw the legendary Leon Redbone, the deep-voiced man of mystery who sings tunes that were popular 70 years ago. Sony P7 He did a set full of standards like My Blue Heaven and Shine On Harvest Moon. And, he whistled one [&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-730","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\/730","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=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}