{"id":1091,"date":"2007-12-25T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-25T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-21T22:50:39","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T22:50:39","slug":"sammymaudlin-shares-the-gift-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sammymaudlin-shares-the-gift-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"sammymaudlin Shares the Gift of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61wrlmWb1G4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/sammy.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/sammy.mp3\">sammymaudlin Shares the Gift of Music<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many if not most of you probably know of or own this track.  I present it here because this is a great underrated band that I feel every rock music lover should have an opportunity to explore.  It is special to me as it is one of the first bands that I discovered on my own.  As opposed to hearing it on the radio, reading about them or having a friend turn me on.  I saw them open for <strong>The Meat Puppets<\/strong> when all they had was an EP and it was when The Meat Puppets just started sucking.  These guys were one of the best live shows I have ever seen.  I probably saw them a dozen times over the years and as they never built a large following it was always in some dive bar which was just so perfect for them.  There\u2019s no way I could pick a favorite song so I just grabbed one off an album that has a connection to a <strong>Friend of the Hall<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sammymaudlin Shares the Gift of Music Many if not most of you probably know of or own this track. I present it here because this is a great underrated band that I feel every rock music lover should have an opportunity to explore. It is special to me as it is one of the first <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sammymaudlin-shares-the-gift-of-music\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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\/1091"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}