{"id":874,"date":"2007-09-20T00:16:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T04:16:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-20T00:21:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T00:21:01","slug":"thinking-of-you-townspeople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thinking-of-you-townspeople\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking of You, Townspeople"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Townsperson,<\/p>\n<p>As I browse a few of the finer blogs out there, I got to thinking of <strong>you<\/strong>. In particular&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Townsmen Hrrundi<\/strong> and <strong>Saturnismine<\/strong> may be interested in a piece on <strong>Chaka Khan<\/strong>&#8216;s upcoming covers album, as covered on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/siart.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/handful-of-covers.html\" title=\"http:\/\/siart.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/handful-of-covers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Silence Is a Rhythm Too<\/a><\/strong>. There are clips of her covering Hendrix and &#8211; get this, Hrrundi &#8211; a Prince song. (No word on whether she covers the rest of Hrrundi&#8217;s Holy Trinity, ELO and ZZ Top.) I&#8217;ll let you make up your own mind, but it&#8217;s likely we agree that Chaka will never top the following piece of work.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v3Ld_sLUCUk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Townswoman Sally C<\/strong> and <strong>Townsman Mrclean<\/strong> came to mind when I saw <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/musicthing.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/dude-puts-drum-triggers-in-pants-calls.html\" title=\"http:\/\/musicthing.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/dude-puts-drum-triggers-in-pants-calls.html\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then I was checking in on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.headheritage.co.uk\/unsung\/feature\/slystone\/\" title=\"http:\/\/www.headheritage.co.uk\/unsung\/feature\/slystone\/\" target=\"_blank\">Julian Cope Presents Head Heritage<\/a><\/strong>, and I thought about <strong>dbuskirk<\/strong> and <strong>BigSteve<\/strong> and their recent discussions regarding the <strong>Sly Stone<\/strong> box set.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lrt2RAnOyBo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThen, wouldn&#8217;t you know, I thought of <strong>Berlyant<\/strong> and <strong>2000 Man<\/strong> when I read this piece in <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.com\/articles\/weekly_article\/brave-new-world-the-indies-go-digital.htm\" title=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.com\/articles\/weekly_article\/brave-new-world-the-indies-go-digital.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Stylus Magazine<\/a><\/strong>, entitled <em>Brave New World: The Indies Go Digital<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DbpVvr17q0A?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI came across this piece on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2007\/09\/365-days-262---.html\" title=\"http:\/\/blog.wfmu.org\/freeform\/2007\/09\/365-days-262---.html\" target=\"_blank\">WFMU&#8217;s Beware of the Blog<\/a><\/strong> on a <strong>Beatles cover album<\/strong> by a totally obscure artist whom the author thinks made the most misguided Beatles cover album ever. (The author of the piece does note, &#8220;I haven&#8217;t seen the new film <em>Across the Universe<\/em> yet, but I suspect that might be worse.&#8221;) I thought of <strong>Alexmagic<\/strong>, <strong>andyr<\/strong>, and <strong>E. Pluribus Gergely<\/strong>. I&#8217;d almost forgotten about that last Townsman.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I was checking out some forgotten singles at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlehits.com\/blog\/?p=315\" title=\"http:\/\/www.littlehits.com\/blog\/?p=315\" target=\"_blank\">Little Hits<\/a><\/strong>, and this piece on <strong>The Bats<\/strong> by our very own <strong>The Great 48<\/strong> got me thinking about <strong>Trolleyvox<\/strong>, who&#8217;s been on my mind for some great news followed by sad news. Thinking of you &#8211; and you too, <strong>General Slocum<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey Townsperson, As I browse a few of the finer blogs out there, I got to thinking of you. In particular&#8230; Townsmen Hrrundi and Saturnismine may be interested in a piece on Chaka Khan&#8216;s upcoming covers album, as covered on Silence Is a Rhythm Too. There are clips of her covering Hendrix and &#8211; get <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thinking-of-you-townspeople\/' 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\/874"}],"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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}