{"id":2499,"date":"2010-01-06T16:00:57","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T21:00:57","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-06T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-06T16:54:00","slug":"producer-willie-mitchell-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/producer-willie-mitchell-dead-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Producer Willie Mitchell Dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/algreen-williemitchell.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"190\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Legendary <strong>Al Green<\/strong> producer\/arranger <strong>Willie Mitchell<\/strong> died today at 81. Although I haven&#8217;t heard many Mitchell productions on par with the dozens of excellent recordings he made with Green, his style was so money that he even made solo <strong>Keith Richards<\/strong> sound pretty good.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Rox2H56i3sg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Pretty good. It&#8217;s still burnt-out Keef on lead vocals, but those gently thumping drums, the warm guitar, and the chunky-but-never-overbearing horn punctuations were money in the bank. Feel free to lecture me on the wonders of <strong>Ann Peebles<\/strong> and other artists Mitchell helped, a large piece of the magic that is Al Green has left us.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ICKToz7BLLA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><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>Legendary Al Green producer\/arranger Willie Mitchell died today at 81. Although I haven&#8217;t heard many Mitchell productions on par with the dozens of excellent recordings he made with Green, his style was so money that he even made solo Keith Richards sound pretty good. Pretty good. It&#8217;s still burnt-out Keef on lead vocals, but those <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/producer-willie-mitchell-dead-at-81\/' 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":[170],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499"}],"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=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}