{"id":22045,"date":"2014-10-14T23:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22045"},"modified":"2014-10-14T23:55:36","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T03:55:36","slug":"last-man-standing-blues-run-the-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-blues-run-the-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Man Standing: Blues Run the Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent discussion of the music of <strong>Gordon Lightfoot<\/strong>, I made a reference to <strong>Jackson C. Frank<\/strong>, who released only 1\u00a0album, which was produced by <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> (whose birthday just happened to pass).<\/p>\n<p>The album leads off with his song, &#8220;Blues Run the Game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RgY4GnLGsLQ\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Although this song mentions the blues, it is not a blues song in its structure or style. But the blues do run this particular game of <em>Last Man Standing<\/em>: How many songs can we name that are about, or mention, the blues, although they are <strong>not<\/strong> actually in that genre? I can think of 4.\u00a0Let&#8217;s see if you all can name those songs and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent discussion of the music of Gordon Lightfoot, I made a reference to Jackson C. Frank, who released only 1\u00a0album, which was produced by Paul Simon (whose birthday just happened to pass). The album leads off with his song, &#8220;Blues Run the Game.&#8221; Although this song mentions the blues, it is not a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/last-man-standing-blues-run-the-game\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[105,55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22045"}],"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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}