{"id":1428,"date":"2008-05-13T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:13:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-05-13T11:13:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T11:13:33","slug":"a-family-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-family-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"A Family Sampler"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/songforme.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"155\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In our recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/dugout-chatter\">family-themed Dugout Chatter<\/a>, a few Townspeople seemed to be stumped by the choice of Family vs MSFB. Although MSFB is in my blood, I&#8217;ve never known much about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Family_%28band%29\" target=\"_blank\">Family<\/a>, really only knowing of them in the first place because they&#8217;re the band from which supergroup journeyman bassist <strong>Ric Grech<\/strong> sprung. Years ago I borrowed a handful of their records from a friend, expecting an <a href=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Overlooked Gem<\/a> or two. It was not to be, but they do turn up a few interesting tracks to examing in my Rock Lab. Here&#8217;s a little Family sampler. Those of you who find it difficult not to turn away from checking out a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/02\/26\/working_through_some_tull_issues\">Jethro Tull<\/a><\/strong> <em>deep cut<\/em> may be interested. Pince Nez me, if you must: I believe none of the following tracks is from the early, Ric Grech era.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Family_SongforMe_DrownedinWine.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Drowned in Wine&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Family_SongforMe_StopfortheTraffic-ThroughtheHeartofMe.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Song for Me-Stop for the Traffic&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Family_Fearless_Children.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Children&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Family_Anyway_Anyway.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Anyway&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Family, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Family_Bandstand_Burlesque.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Burlesque&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our recent family-themed Dugout Chatter, a few Townspeople seemed to be stumped by the choice of Family vs MSFB. Although MSFB is in my blood, I&#8217;ve never known much about Family, really only knowing of them in the first place because they&#8217;re the band from which supergroup journeyman bassist Ric Grech sprung. Years ago <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/a-family-sampler\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/1428"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}