{"id":16050,"date":"2012-10-15T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16050"},"modified":"2012-10-15T01:37:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T05:37:31","slug":"more-more-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/more-more-more\/","title":{"rendered":"More, More, More?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a skeptic regarding the musical value of <strong>Leonard Cohen<\/strong>, but I&#8217;ve always liked the song &#8220;Suzanne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As a Beatles diehard who&#8217;s never been a big fan of vocal jazz music, I did make an effort to check out <strong>Nina Simone<\/strong> shortly after reading that a section of &#8220;Michelle&#8221; was lifted\/inspired by one of her songs. Anything I&#8217;ve heard from her is OK. It&#8217;s got that jazz singing thing I usually don&#8217;t like.<\/p>\n<p>This marriage of &#8220;Suzanne&#8221; with Nina Simone, however, is a revelation. I suspect the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/jazzmat-beware-the-dashiki-wearing\/\" target=\"_blank\">dashiki-wearing band<\/a> factors into my enjoyment. Nevertheless, is there more like this?<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DtOKYXYStmU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Perhaps there&#8217;s an artist who has never otherwise impressed you yet who has one performance that&#8217;s caused you to seek recommendations of possibly more similar charms. Who might that be and what&#8217;s the one track that&#8217;s raised your curiosity? Maybe we can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve long been a skeptic regarding the musical value of Leonard Cohen, but I&#8217;ve always liked the song &#8220;Suzanne.&#8221; As a Beatles diehard who&#8217;s never been a big fan of vocal jazz music, I did make an effort to check out Nina Simone shortly after reading that a section of &#8220;Michelle&#8221; was lifted\/inspired by one <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/more-more-more\/' 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":[426,731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050"}],"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=16050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}