We’ll start with the greatest of American traditions – adopting that which came from another country.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the Canadian Five Man Electric Band’s Signs:<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1Q7cP3ij5g[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
The Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy gives us the ideal:<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rYoM0qQL6mE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
CCR’s Fortunate Son makes it a little more real:<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaA[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
Then there’s Nina Simone’s American classic – Mississippi Goddamn (the recording is more important than the (not original) vid, here – need to ff through the first 30 seconds or so):<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TV7f4umNpo0[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
And finally, from one of America’s greatest bands:<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QmrVYMCm8AY&feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n
~<\/p>\n
And an extra one, which gives me hope for the future:<\/p>\n
[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-4IECGgyLKo&feature=related[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We’ll start with the greatest of American traditions – adopting that which came from another country.\u00c2\u00a0 This is the Canadian Five Man Electric Band’s Signs: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z1Q7cP3ij5g[\/youtube] The Andrews Sisters Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy gives us the ideal: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rYoM0qQL6mE[\/youtube] CCR’s Fortunate Son makes it a little more real: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JBfjU3_XOaA[\/youtube] Then there’s Nina Simone’s American classic – […]<\/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":[30,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}