{"id":22274,"date":"2015-01-16T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22274"},"modified":"2015-01-16T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2015-01-16T18:52:08","slug":"cool-movie-cameos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cool-movie-cameos\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Movie Cameos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PUy4r17Sqtw\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>We have a sick boy at home, so that means movie time\u2014and he&#8217;s young enough (7) to watch just about anything that shows up on TCM without much complaint. Earlier this week, a movie called <em>Hootenanny Hoot<\/em>\u00a0was on\u2014and who pops up but a young <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong>, looking pretty doggone cool.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, which is sort of a cash-in on the early &#8217;60s folk movement, isn&#8217;t very good, but does include a couple of great performances by <strong>Judy Henske<\/strong>. She kind of steals the show for me because they only have the one Cash song. I&#8217;d never heard of her, but she seems like a precursor of Janis and Grace Slick. I guess her most famous song is an early version of &#8220;High Flyin&#8217; Bird,&#8221; which predates the <strong>Jefferson Airplan<\/strong>e cover by 3\u00a0years or so.<\/p>\n<p>I also like movies that pop in surprises\u2014like <strong>Marshall Crenshaw<\/strong> playing <strong>Buddy Holly<\/strong> in <em>La Bamba<\/em> \u00a0or <strong>Aimee Mann<\/strong> in <em>The Big Lebowski<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What are some of your favorite artist cameos: musical performance or acting?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have a sick boy at home, so that means movie time\u2014and he&#8217;s young enough (7) to watch just about anything that shows up on TCM without much complaint. Earlier this week, a movie called Hootenanny Hoot\u00a0was on\u2014and who pops up but a young Johnny Cash, looking pretty doggone cool. The movie, which is sort <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/cool-movie-cameos\/' 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":[34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22274"}],"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=22274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}