{"id":1081,"date":"2007-12-20T12:06:22","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T17:06:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-20T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2007-12-20T12:59:17","slug":"kinged-shares-the-gift-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kinged-shares-the-gift-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"KingEd Shares the Gift of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Es2No2JqhJo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nMy gift of music today is from an album and artist I&#8217;d never heard of until stumbling across it on <strong>eMusic<\/strong> last week. You can shake the package, sniff it, what have you, but until you unwrap it and have a listen, you probably won&#8217;t know what&#8217;s coming.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/RTHGiftDay1.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/RTHGiftDay1.mp3\">KingEd&#8217;s Gift of Music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Mr. Mod requested, let me tell you a little about what this humble track <em>means<\/em> to me. It&#8217;s got an open-hearted, no-bullshit vibe about it that&#8217;s nestled somewhere between dry, early &#8217;70s singer-songwriter stuff packaged in textured, sepia-toned sleeves and <strong>Pub Rock<\/strong>. As much as I love rock &#8216;n roll that blasts out of the speakers and grabs my family jewels, it&#8217;s a welcome relief these days to find something sincere and innocent &#8211; and pretty catchy, if a minute or two longer than necessary. This song sounds like something a friend would play for me, with the knowledge of that friend right on the surface of the recording, for better <em>and<\/em> for worse.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for a fun year, Rock Town Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My gift of music today is from an album and artist I&#8217;d never heard of until stumbling across it on eMusic last week. You can shake the package, sniff it, what have you, but until you unwrap it and have a listen, you probably won&#8217;t know what&#8217;s coming. KingEd&#8217;s Gift of Music As Mr. Mod <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/kinged-shares-the-gift-of-music\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}