{"id":2849,"date":"2010-07-21T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:02:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T23:51:53","slug":"second-best-sitar-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/second-best-sitar-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock&#8217;s Second-Greatest Sitar Player Uncovered!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/ananda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/ananda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">George Harrison got nothin&#8217; on this baby!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You may recall an ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-explain-how-is-taking-cheap-shots-at-joanna-newsom-any-different-than-the-cheap-shots-taken-at-any-other-musician-whose-music-someone-doesn-t-like-such-as-pat-benetar-billy-joel-or-even-michael\" target=\"_blank\">aesthetic scuffle<\/a> over the mystery of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/triple-your-pleasure-with-joanna-newsom-1\" target=\"_blank\">Joanna Newsom<\/a>&#8216;s appeal and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-s-groundbreaking-harp-player\" target=\"_blank\">whether the harp actually holds any value in rock &#8216;n roll<\/a>. As part of the possible &#8220;flavor of the month&#8221; perspective on this issue, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/please-explain-how-is-taking-cheap-shots-at-joanna-newsom-any-different-than-the-cheap-shots-taken-at-any-other-musician-whose-music-someone-doesn-t-like-such-as-pat-benetar-billy-joel-or-even-michael#c39760\" target=\"_blank\">we wondered who was rock&#8217;s second-best sitar player<\/a>. Well, wonder and ye shall find an answer on Rock Town Hall. Clearly it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ananda_Shankar\" target=\"_blank\">Ananda Shankar<\/a>, nephew of Ravi!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/JumpinJackFlash-AnandaShankar.mp3\">Ananda Shankar, &#8220;Jumpin&#8217; Jack Flash&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled on this track while downloading tracks from eMusic from a pretty cool compilation, entitled <em>What It Is! Funky Soul and Rare Grooves (1967-1977)<\/em>. A physical copy of that CD goes for a steep price on Amazon, but you can get an entire album of rock&#8217;s second-best sitar player&#8230;<em>after the jump!<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822\/US\/rotoha00-20\/8002\/f12ae69d-f738-4853-a651-e71145f88cdd\" type=\"text\/javascript\"> <\/script> <noscript><a HREF=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Frotoha00-20%2F8002%2Ff12ae69d-f738-4853-a651-e71145f88cdd&amp;Operation=NoScript\">Amazon.com Widgets<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Harrison got nothin&#8217; on this baby! You may recall an ongoing aesthetic scuffle over the mystery of Joanna Newsom&#8216;s appeal and whether the harp actually holds any value in rock &#8216;n roll. As part of the possible &#8220;flavor of the month&#8221; perspective on this issue, we wondered who was rock&#8217;s second-best sitar player. Well, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/second-best-sitar-player\/' 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":[],"tags":[127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849"}],"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=2849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}