{"id":4189,"date":"2013-07-04T05:32:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T09:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4189"},"modified":"2013-07-04T05:32:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T09:32:37","slug":"happy-independence-day-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/07\/04\/happy-independence-day-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Independence Day, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since today is (a) an American holiday and (b) a mere few days after the halfway point of 2013, I thought that instead of a review, essay or feature, I&#8217;d instead run a brief look back at some of the highlights of the year so far. To that end, I&#8217;d like to recommend a few of my personal favorites from among my roughly 130 blog posts for this year-to-date.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/musoscribe6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"81\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><strong>Interviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4090\">Ray Manzarek (The Doors)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4044\">John McLaughlin<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3930\">Allen Clapp<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3930\"><strong> (The Orange Peels<\/strong><\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3752\">Felix Cavaliere (The Rascals)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3554\">Chris Stamey (The dB&#8217;s)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3486\">Roger Manning (Jellyfish)<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Reviews:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4094\">Big Star \u2013 <em>Nothing Can Hurt Me<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3975\">Various Artists \u2013 <em>The Birth of Soul Jazz<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3813\">E. Normus Trio \u2013 <em>Love and Barbiturates<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3807\">Jim Ruiz Set \u2013 <em>Mount Curve Avenue<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3783\">Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3730\"><em>Paul Williams Still Alive<\/em><\/a> (DVD)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=3579\">The Cleaners From Venus \u2013 <em>Living With Victoria Grey<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4101\">Yes \u2013 <em>Magnification<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the occasion of the fourth anniversary of the Musoscribe blog&#8217;s launch, I&#8217;d also like to thank you for reading, and encourage you to keep coming back for more. As <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=811\"><strong>Todd Rundgren<\/strong><\/a> sings, \u201cAnd there&#8217;s more&#8230;\u201d<\/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>Since today is (a) an American holiday and (b) a mere few days after the halfway point of 2013, I thought that instead of a review, essay or feature, I&#8217;d [&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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-of-list","cat-8-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189","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=4189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}