{"id":4743,"date":"2011-06-24T07:56:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4743"},"modified":"2011-06-24T07:56:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-24T11:56:40","slug":"friday-morning-music-oh-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2011\/06\/24\/friday-morning-music-oh-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Morning Music: Oh Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some artists’ work is so ubiquitous it’s almost immediately part of the background, never really appreciated on its own. I suspect that’s the case with Buddy Holly’s music for most of you. We all know the songs as soon as we hear them, though I bet we couldn’t name more than one or two. Like Oh Boy:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DIpc2nsYQUs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Fun, kinda mindless, part of the background to so many things, right? Then I found this album of incredible covers – Rave On Buddy Holly<\/a>. And it has me listening to so much of his work with a completely new ear and appreciation. Here’s She & Him taking on the same:<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> Oh Boy (She & Him)<\/a> by concordmusicgroup<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Buddy Holly’s original Crying Waiting Hoping:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hsjI7ekciZs[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

And Karen Elson’s cover:<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object> Crying Waiting Hoping (Karen Elson)<\/a> by concordmusicgroup<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Go click around the album<\/a>. It’s incredible (and coming out next week – I’ll be buying it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some artists’ work is so ubiquitous it’s almost immediately part of the background, never really appreciated on its own. I suspect that’s the case with Buddy Holly’s music for most of you. We all know the songs as soon as we hear them, though I bet we couldn’t name more than one or two. Like […]<\/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-4743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743","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=4743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4744,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4743\/revisions\/4744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}