{"id":2179,"date":"2009-05-26T12:05:10","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-28T13:34:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T13:34:43","slug":"former-wilco-wizard-jay-bennett-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/former-wilco-wizard-jay-bennett-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Wilco Wizard Jay Bennett Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UoCZTSRvWuc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This was a sad bit of news you may have heard about already: former Wilco multi-instrumentalist <strong>Jay Bennett<\/strong> was found dead in his sleep in Champaign, IL. <em>Summerteeth<\/em> is still the one Wilco album I like playing, and I know he had a large hand in that one. I know he was kicked out of the band during the making of <em>Yankee Hotel Foxtrot<\/em>, a story that was (I believe) central to that documentary that came out on the band around the time of <em>YHF<\/em>&#8216;s release, <em>I Am Trying to Break Your Heart<\/em>. I was not a big fan of that album, and I have still not seen the movie. I do own a Bennett\/<strong>Edward Burch<\/strong> album, <em>The Palace at 4 am<\/em>, which I like best among all Wilco-related albums I own next to <em>Summerteeth<\/em>, so I&#8217;m guessing I was a Jay Bennett fan more than anything. I&#8217;ll have to check out the rest of his solo catalog. Too bad I didn&#8217;t appreciate more of his stuff in his lifetime.<\/p>\n<p><em>NEXT: Rock Town Hall&#8217;s Official Eulogy&#8230;<\/em><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div><object type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" width=\"400\" height=\"602\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rip400x602.swf\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a sad bit of news you may have heard about already: former Wilco multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett was found dead in his sleep in Champaign, IL. Summerteeth is still the one Wilco album I like playing, and I know he had a large hand in that one. I know he was kicked out of <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/former-wilco-wizard-jay-bennett-dead\/' 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":[16],"tags":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"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=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}