{"id":2861,"date":"2012-08-19T06:22:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T10:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2012-08-19T06:22:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T10:22:05","slug":"kirsty-maccoll-06-28-92-glastonbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/19\/kirsty-maccoll-06-28-92-glastonbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootleg Bin: Kirsty MacColl &#8211; 06-28-92 Glastonbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kirsty MacColl<\/strong> was famous for a few things. One, her dad was famed folksinger <strong>Ewan MacColl<\/strong>. Two, she wrote and recorded the original version of the girl-group pastiche &#8220;They Don&#8217;t Know&#8221;, later covered by <strong>Tracey Ullman<\/strong>. Three, she was a writer and vocalist of some stylistic range, having worked with <strong>Johnny Marr<\/strong>, <strong>Shane McGowan<\/strong>, Evan Dando and many others. Four, she died tragically in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>But despite her fame (especially in the UK) there aren&#8217;t a lot of Kirsty MacColl bootlegs out there to begin with, so finding this one is a real prize. It&#8217;s a soundboard from the Glastonbury Festival. The band is tight and Kirsty sings the hits (some of &#8217;em, anyway), plus some unexpected covers. A short disc (under 40 min.) but worth it no matter what if you&#8217;re a fan.<\/p>\n<p><em>Difficulty to Locate: 8 out of 10<br \/>\nGeneral Listenability: 10 out of 10<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirsty MacColl was famous for a few things. One, her dad was famed folksinger Ewan MacColl. Two, she wrote and recorded the original version of the girl-group pastiche &#8220;They Don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootleg","category-review","cat-11-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}