{"id":652,"date":"2011-11-24T05:06:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T10:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2011-11-24T05:06:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T10:06:20","slug":"a-thanksgiving-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/11\/24\/a-thanksgiving-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"A Thanksgiving Thank-you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Maybe you\u2019re the sort who doesn\u2019t spend Thanksgiving in front of a television, watching men run up and down a field in funny costumes. Further, maybe you didn\u2019t eat so much turkey on Thanksgiving to cause a tryptophan-induced coma (or maybe it hasn\u2019t kicked in yet). Or maybe you\u2019re not reading this humble little note on the day it was published (Thanksgiving Day 2011). In any event, if you\u2019ve wandered here (or arrived on purpose), I might direct your attention to some recent interviews you might find enjoyable.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Van Dyke Parks<\/strong> was the lyricist with composer <strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong> for the decades-delayed <em>SMiLE<\/em> album arguably a milestone of popular music of any era. Parks and I sat down for <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/\/?p=642\">coffee and a chat<\/a> not long ago.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\">The recently-concluded Two of a Perfect Trio tour brought together three veterans of <strong>King Crimson<\/strong> with three younger (yet equally impressive) musicians. I spent some time at soundcheck and then backstage with the band, and they <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/\/?p=618\">patiently fielded my questions<\/a>, both arcane and pertinent.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>The Grip Weeds<\/strong> are keepers of the rock\u2019n\u2019roll flame, though they try to avoid the term powerpop. Whatever you call it, it\u2019s good stuff. The Grip Weeds\u2019 <strong>Kurt Reil<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/\/?p=612\">discusses the group\u2019s <em>Strange Change Machine<\/em> and previews some upcoming projects<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong>Tommy Keene<\/strong> released <em>Behind the Parade<\/em> &#8212; the latest in a long line of ace albums \u2013 in 2011. He took time to discuss his approach to songwriting and production in this <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/\/?p=602\">illuminating interview<\/a> (the second time I\u2019ve interviewed him, by the way).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There\u2019s loads more. Look around, and tell your friends. On this day of giving thanks, allow me the indulgence of thanking all of the artists, publicists, label reps and promoters who help me do what I do. And, of course, a sincere thanks to all of my readers. Happy Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">P.S. here\u2019s another Thanksgiving tradition\u2026<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LjKF7aQthcQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"425\" height=\"239\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe you\u2019re the sort who doesn\u2019t spend Thanksgiving in front of a television, watching men run up and down a field in funny costumes. Further, maybe you didn\u2019t eat so [&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":[27],"tags":[2136],"class_list":["post-652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","tag-thanksgiving","cat-27-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}