{"id":20308,"date":"2013-10-22T22:10:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T02:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20308"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:19:28","slug":"lost-albums-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lost-albums-3\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Lost&#8221; Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pXfUk-jF6UE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Patty Griffin&#8217;s<\/strong> 2000 album <em><a title=\"Silver Bell\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WA5Px0HefNA\" target=\"_blank\">Silver Bell<\/a><\/em>\u00a0finally got a proper release this year\u00a0&#8212; many of the songs had been kicking around on other albums and covered by other artists &#8212; most notably the <strong>Dixie Chicks<\/strong>.\u00a0<strong>Natalie Maines <\/strong>put the title track on her solo album this year. I&#8217;ve kind of been wearing it out the last couple of weeks. I don&#8217;t why A&amp;M finally put it out now&#8230;evidently it had reached &#8220;lost&#8221; album status in Americana circles. Being Robert Plant&#8217;s girlfriend can&#8217;t hurt either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WA5Px0HefNA\">Silver Bell<\/a>&#8221; and the fact that I finally finished <strong>Pete Townshend&#8217;s<\/strong> autobiography, where he spends a lot of time writing about the <em>Lifehouse<\/em> sessions, got me thinking about\u00a0&#8220;lost&#8221; albums. As a kid, and <strong>Who<\/strong> obsessive for a while, I was happy to find remnants on <em>Who Came First<\/em> in the cutouts. I\u00a0always really liked &#8220;Pure and Easy&#8221; and \u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"Nothing...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vP_1FJRnHHw\" target=\"_blank\">(Nothing is Everything) Let&#8217;s See Action<\/a>.&#8221; I had not listened to &#8220;Pure and Easy&#8221; for 20 years &#8212; to my ears, it&#8217;s pretty good and far superior to <a title=\"Odds...\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/x430XNZhnWs\" target=\"_blank\">the Who version on &#8220;Odds &amp; Sods.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0I think it would be cool if Pete could stitch together a <em>Lifehouse<\/em> release like <strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong> did for <em>Smile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What &#8220;lost albums&#8221; are worth the time to dig up\u00a0in your<\/strong><\/em><strong><em> book<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patty Griffin&#8217;s 2000 album Silver Bell\u00a0finally got a proper release this year\u00a0&#8212; many of the songs had been kicking around on other albums and covered by other artists &#8212; most notably the Dixie Chicks.\u00a0Natalie Maines put the title track on her solo album this year. I&#8217;ve kind of been wearing it out the last couple <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/lost-albums-3\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}