{"id":2142,"date":"2009-04-30T23:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-30T23:09:47","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:09:47","slug":"the-necessity-of-an-inside-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-necessity-of-an-inside-job\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessity of an Inside Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/dusty.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"318\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a recent Dugout Chatter, <strong>Townsman pudman13<\/strong> asked the following question, and ended his question with another question, which I&#8217;m answering here, on The Main Stage! (Some editing and styling have been applied to the initial comments posted.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Are there any truly great albums (top echelon) that are not by songwriters?<\/em> When I think of the albums that rank at the very top of the critical canon, none of them is packed with cover versions (and I think that it should be that way). A few that are not by songwriters are still full of &#8220;new&#8221; material, much of which was written for the performer, creating a coherent record (eg, <em>Dusty In Memphis<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Is this question worthy of a new thread?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, I think it is. Let&#8217;s get it on!<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, we&#8217;re discussing whether it&#8217;s possible to have a great (ie, stone-cold GREAT) album that is not powered by a songwriter <em>who is in the band<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent Dugout Chatter, Townsman pudman13 asked the following question, and ended his question with another question, which I&#8217;m answering here, on The Main Stage! (Some editing and styling have been applied to the initial comments posted.) Are there any truly great albums (top echelon) that are not by songwriters? When I think of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-necessity-of-an-inside-job\/' 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\/2142"}],"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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}