{"id":1631,"date":"2008-08-16T01:55:57","date_gmt":"2008-08-16T05:55:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:41:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:41:38","slug":"jerry-wexler-dead-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jerry-wexler-dead-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Wexler Dead at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/Earth250x250.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Legendary Atlantic Records producer <strong>Jerry Wexler<\/strong> died yesterday at 91. How did I miss this news until now? How did it go unmentioned on Rock Town Hall until now?!?! <\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kK-g4ye7nmI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Wexler always seemed about as cool a cat as one cat could get. I loved the stories of him showing musicians how he wanted a rhythm played by coming out of the booth and doing some dance steps for the musicians to show them the groove he wanted. Recording sessions must have been beyond belief back then. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=1128236\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a link to an excellent interview with him on <strong>Fresh Air<\/strong> in 2001.<\/a> First Isaac, now Jerry. Well, at 91 you can&#8217;t say Wexler&#8217;s passing was unexpected. Dance on, man!<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?cat=16\">Previously, in the News!<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Atlantic Records producer Jerry Wexler died yesterday at 91. How did I miss this news until now? How did it go unmentioned on Rock Town Hall until now?!?! Wexler always seemed about as cool a cat as one cat could get. I loved the stories of him showing musicians how he wanted a rhythm <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/jerry-wexler-dead-at-91\/' 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":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631"}],"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=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}