{"id":6069,"date":"2011-03-03T16:24:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6069"},"modified":"2011-03-08T04:19:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T08:19:24","slug":"mavis-staples-on-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mavis-staples-on-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"Mavis Staples on <em>Conan<\/em>!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qjD1ixAcUiw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Wow, I just caught <strong>Mavis Staples<\/strong> performing &#8220;Creep Along Moses&#8221; on <em>Conan<\/em>, and she and her band were something else! With the perfect mix of artifice and mojo she restored my faith that televised musical performance magic can still happen. Just a few days ago, while revisiting <strong>Devo<\/strong>&#8216;s appearance on <em>Saturday Night Live<\/em> and then <strong>Graham Parker &amp; The Rumour<\/strong> on <em>Fridays<\/em> I worried I&#8217;d never see any musical performance on TV again that would dazzle me so. I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s the last televised musical performance that knocked your socks off?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, I just caught Mavis Staples performing &#8220;Creep Along Moses&#8221; on Conan, and she and her band were something else! With the perfect mix of artifice and mojo she restored my faith that televised musical performance magic can still happen. Just a few days ago, while revisiting Devo&#8216;s appearance on Saturday Night Live and then <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mavis-staples-on-conan\/' 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":[24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069"}],"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=6069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}