{"id":23433,"date":"2020-04-13T13:58:26","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T17:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23433"},"modified":"2020-04-13T14:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T18:11:59","slug":"musical-artists-you-like-better-for-things-they-do-beside-their-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-artists-you-like-better-for-things-they-do-beside-their-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Artists You Like Better for Things They Do Beside Their Music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Waits in &quot;Down by Law&quot;.Drink &amp; Drive scene (HD)\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aUVDjO44jFU?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Since she first hit the public eye as one half of a singing duo, let&#8217;s agree that <strong>Cher<\/strong> is a singer. For me, despite liking a couple of Sonny &amp; Cher songs well enough, I can&#8217;t think of a singer with a less-appealing voice than Cher&#8217;s. Are you one of those people who say, &#8220;Oh no, I can&#8217;t sing to save my life!&#8221; I bet you have a more appealing singing voice to my ears than Cher&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p>What I do like much better regarding Cher is her ability as an actor. Dating back to <em>Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean<\/em> through <em>Silkwood<\/em>, <em>Moonstruck<\/em>, and <em>Mermaids<\/em>, I felt Cher could do no wrong as an actor. I wish she could have retired from singing altogether, so that we could only think of her as a former member of a comedy duo and an accomplished actor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>?uestlove<\/strong>, or <strong>Questlove<\/strong>, drummer for The Roots and an accomplished producer is nothing to sneeze at musically &#8211; I bet even he has a more appealing singing voice than Cher&#8217;s &#8211; is another musician I like more for his extracurricular activities than his musical ones. Again, unlike Cher, I&#8217;ve got no beef with his music, but given the choice of reading any of his books (his memoir, his interviews with chefs, and his thoughts on the creative process are all highly inspiring reads I&#8217;ve enjoyed over the past 5 years) or listening to any record he&#8217;s played on and\/or produced, I&#8217;ll choose reading his books. I will always reserve some some time, however, to listen to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8fNtipp5RLs\" target=\"_blank\">his work on <strong>D&#8217;Angelo<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Pie.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Others on this list, for me, include <strong>Tom Waits<\/strong> and <strong>John Lurie<\/strong>. Again, unlike Cher, I&#8217;ve got no beef with their music, but I like them better when they&#8217;re acting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How about you?<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-artists-you-like-better-for-things-they-do-beside-their-music\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-artists-you-like-better-for-things-they-do-beside-their-music\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since she first hit the public eye as one half of a singing duo, let&#8217;s agree that Cher is a singer. For me, despite liking a couple of Sonny &amp; Cher songs well enough, I can&#8217;t think of a singer with a less-appealing voice than Cher&#8217;s. Are you one of those people who say, &#8220;Oh <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/musical-artists-you-like-better-for-things-they-do-beside-their-music\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[167,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23433"}],"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=23433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}