{"id":1775,"date":"2008-11-12T23:40:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T03:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2008-11-12T23:45:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T03:45:26","slug":"midweek-makeover-way-down-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/11\/12\/midweek-makeover-way-down-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Way Down Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>When you walk through the garden<br \/>\nyou gotta watch your back<br \/>\nwell I beg your pardon<br \/>\nwalk the straight and narrow track<br \/>\nif you walk with Jesus<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s gonna save your soul<br \/>\nyou gotta keep the devil<br \/>\nway down in the hole<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/10\/10\/spot-on\/\">these pages have noted before<\/a>, I was a huge fan of the television series The Wire while it was on.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citypaper.com\/music\/story.asp?id=15047\">Its music<\/a> was among the many wonderful things about the show.\u00c2\u00a0 For Midweek Makeover, we&#8217;re going to start with The Wire&#8217;s theme song &#8211; Way Down in the Hole.\u00c2\u00a0 The original is by Tom Waits.\u00c2\u00a0 This is him performing it live and, well, being Tom Waits:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xw2MjRcVO4g[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not Waits&#8217; version that kicked the series off.\u00c2\u00a0 The cover by the Blind Boys of Alabama is what originally opened the show:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mzIuUW9VUr0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For the second season, though, they brought Waits in.\u00c2\u00a0 This is how that translated into the show:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ipaV4k2n__I[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Worked very well, I think.\u00c2\u00a0 The artist changed each season, and future versions went to the Neville Brothers and Steve Earle (who also ended up acting on the show, and doing a damn good job of it).\u00c2\u00a0 I thought that the end of the series would also bring an end to covers of Way Down in the Hole.\u00c2\u00a0 And then just the other day, I stumbled on this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=87HHQmIQ8U8[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s M.I.A. and Baltimore&#8217;s Blaqstarr.\u00c2\u00a0 I think it does perfect justice to the spirit of Waits&#8217; original work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you walk through the garden you gotta watch your back well I beg your pardon walk the straight and narrow track if you walk with Jesus he&#8217;s gonna save your soul you gotta keep the devil way down in the hole As these pages have noted before, I was a huge fan of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}