{"id":58,"date":"2009-10-01T14:20:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2009-10-01T14:20:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:20:42","slug":"audio-preview-james-mcmurtry-live-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/01\/audio-preview-james-mcmurtry-live-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Audio Preview: James McMurtry &#8211; Live in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an audio preview of the song &#8220;Bayou Tortue&#8221;, the opening track from <strong>James McMurtry<\/strong>&#8216;s forthcoming album <em>Live in Europe<\/em>. His press kit quotes some heavy hitters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <em>Village Voice<\/em> called him \u201ca poet of the people..\u201d Stephen King,  writing in <em>Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, pronounced him \u201cthe truest, fiercest  songwriter of his generation.\u201d The <em>Austin Chronicle<\/em> proclaimed, \u201cThis is  no-frills, freak-flag rock. Turn it up!\u201d <em>PopMatters<\/em> called it \u201ca snapshot  of where McMurtry is now, [marking him] as a legitimate inheritor of the Texas  songwriting tradition.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Live in Europe<\/em> &#8212; available in both CD+DVD and LP+DVD formats &#8212; drops\u00a0 October 13. Meanwhile, enjoy &#8220;Bayou Tortue&#8221; in yet another format, good old mp3.<\/p>\n<p><center><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.odeo.com\/flash\/audio_player_midsize_black.swf\" quality=\"high\" name=\"audio_player_midsize_black\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"valid_sample_rate=true&amp;external_url=http:\/\/www.billkopp.com\/mp3\/01_Bayou_Tortue.mp3&amp;audio_duration =265\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" align=\"center\" height=\"60\" width=\"150\"><\/embed><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an audio preview of the song &#8220;Bayou Tortue&#8221;, the opening track from James McMurtry&#8216;s forthcoming album Live in Europe. His press kit quotes some heavy hitters: The Village Voice [&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}