{"id":313,"date":"2011-09-16T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:24:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-16T07:25:19","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T11:25:19","slug":"what-becomes-a-singer-songwriter-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-becomes-a-singer-songwriter-most\/","title":{"rendered":"What Becomes a Singer-Songwriter Most?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"150\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/flashback425x150.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p><em>Here&#8217;s a very early post from our opening months as a blog concerning a topic that still mystifies me a bit. Let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t reopen this pozzling case 4 1\/2 years later.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><code>This post initially appeared 2\/23\/07.<\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MxdHAiSdc9U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nToo often discussions of the <strong>&#8217;70s singer-songwriter era<\/strong> are clouded or impeded by <strong>your Moderator&#8217;s bias<\/strong> against the music and many of its key artists. This weekend, I&#8217;d like to set aside my biases, and I hope those of you who share in these biases do likewise.<\/p>\n<p>What qualities did middling &#8217;60s artists, such as <strong>James Taylor<\/strong>, Joni Mitchell, <strong>David Bowie<\/strong>, Cat Stevens, <strong>Jackson Browne<\/strong>, and Warren Zevon (not to mention previously faceless songwriters like Carole King and <strong>Neil Diamond<\/strong>), possess that allowed them to blossom as solo artists in the &#8217;70s? What talents were the times of the swinging &#8217;60s keeping at bay? Beside <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> and the CSNY connection, few successful artists from folk-rock&#8217;s budding days in the mid-60s crossed over to &#8217;70s singer-songwriter stardom.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OFoVe5WmU-I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWere there also artists who had achieved some degree of success in the &#8217;60s who might have been better served by struggling a few more years and appearing as solo artists in 1969? I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve thought of any obvious answers to that question, but let me throw out some people I know some of you like in their underrecognized solo careers: <strong>Gene Clark<\/strong> and <strong>Dennis Wilson<\/strong>. Similarly, would <strong>Donovan<\/strong> have had a deeper, more credible career had he come to life in the age of the singer-songwriter?<\/p>\n<p>Finally, did <strong>Dylan<\/strong> ever &#8220;crossover&#8221; to the singer-songwriter age with <em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em> and <em>Desire<\/em>, or was he always Dylan? He never stripped down and got intimate again during the &#8217;70s, as he might have done to tremendous reception, did he?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your input, especially because this is an area beyond my wheelhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a very early post from our opening months as a blog concerning a topic that still mystifies me a bit. Let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t reopen this pozzling case 4 1\/2 years later. This post initially appeared 2\/23\/07. Too often discussions of the &#8217;70s singer-songwriter era are clouded or impeded by your Moderator&#8217;s bias <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-becomes-a-singer-songwriter-most\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313"}],"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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}