{"id":2690,"date":"2010-04-19T20:27:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T00:27:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-19T20:27:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-19T20:27:44","slug":"thrifty-music-vol-20-7-ray-charles-gets-funky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-20-7-ray-charles-gets-funky\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music, Vol. 20.7:  Ray Charles Gets Funky!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/ray-charles-2-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/ray-charles-2-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/Thats_a_Lie.mp3\">Ray Charles, &#8220;That&#8217;s a Lie&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings, seekers of fine, funky, nearly free forty-fives!  Today, as part of my ongoing effort to deliver 20 great Thrifty tracks in just twice that number of days, I present a track that immediately jumped off the turntable as a bona-fide WINNER.  Released in 1968, this A-side saw modest success, charting at #11 on the soul charts, and peaking at #64 Pop.  Whatever.  All I know is that &#8212; as far as I can tell &#8212; it&#8217;s mysteriously unavailable on CD these days.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a shame, &#8217;cause it&#8217;s a funky tune of the highest caliber.  Seriously, I totally dig this one, and it was a thrill to discover it, mouldering in a stack of throw-aways I discovered a few weeks ago.  My musical life is definitely richer for having found it.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s today&#8217;s funky, Ray Charles-inspired question:  <em>Are there any blind pop\/soul\/rockers who suck? <\/em> Even Jose Feliciano&#8217;s got something going on that&#8217;s a damn, uh, sight better than, say, <strong>Journey<\/strong>.  I&#8217;m just askin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Charles, &#8220;That&#8217;s a Lie&#8221; Greetings, seekers of fine, funky, nearly free forty-fives! Today, as part of my ongoing effort to deliver 20 great Thrifty tracks in just twice that number of days, I present a track that immediately jumped off the turntable as a bona-fide WINNER. Released in 1968, this A-side saw modest success, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-vol-20-7-ray-charles-gets-funky\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}