{"id":17746,"date":"2013-02-17T17:40:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T22:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17746"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:08:33","slug":"rip-tandyn-almer-we-hardly-knew-ye-and-i-mean-that-literally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-tandyn-almer-we-hardly-knew-ye-and-i-mean-that-literally\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Tandyn Almer. We Hardly Knew Ye. And I Mean That Literally."},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OV7chqS5kls?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Following up on a story about the passing of the guy who wrote &#8220;Along Comes Mary,&#8221; <strong>Tandyn Almer<\/strong>, has unexpectedly turned me on to a bunch of great songs I&#8217;d never heard before &#8212; and one or two I&#8217;ve always loved that it turns out Tandyn wrote, in whole or in part. (&#8220;Shadows &amp; Reflections&#8221;? &#8220;Sail On Sailor&#8221;? \u00a0Almer co-wrote both of those.)<\/p>\n<p>Too many online remembrances and feature stories have focused on the more curious and &#8220;newsworthy&#8221; (in a VH1 <em>Behind the Music<\/em> kind of way) aspects of Tandyn&#8217;s life, and that&#8217;s a shame. By all accounts, he was happy and well liked, and that&#8217;s what really matters. A good, and seemingly well informed, accounting of Almer&#8217;s accomplishments can be found\u00a0in <a title=\"Almer obit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/feastofeden\/2013\/01\/the-psychodramas-and-the-traumas-gone-the-songs-are-left-unsung-tandyn-almer-1942-2013\" target=\"_blank\">this excellent career retrospective\/obituary<\/a>, found somewhat strangely on a Catholic faith-related blog.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I guess I just wanted to pass along my respects for a great artist I basically knew nothing about until today. Being able to hear the original Eddie Hodges version of &#8220;Shadows &amp; Reflections&#8221; alone &#8212; that was totally wonderful; what an awesome arrangement! (Also, check out &#8220;Butterfly High,&#8221; a psychedelic masterwork performed by Hodges and Almer under the most excellent band name &#8220;Paper Fortress.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following up on a story about the passing of the guy who wrote &#8220;Along Comes Mary,&#8221; Tandyn Almer, has unexpectedly turned me on to a bunch of great songs I&#8217;d never heard before &#8212; and one or two I&#8217;ve always loved that it turns out Tandyn wrote, in whole or in part. (&#8220;Shadows &amp; Reflections&#8221;? <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip-tandyn-almer-we-hardly-knew-ye-and-i-mean-that-literally\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[170,723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}