{"id":202,"date":"2025-04-19T16:34:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T16:34:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T16:34:25","slug":"holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/holy-saturday-night-at-the-oldies\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Saturday Night at the Oldies"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, six definite de-couplings of rock and roll from sex and drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n

Norman Greenbaum, Spirit in the Sky<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Cash, Personal Jesus.<\/a> This is one powerful song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clapton and Winwood, Presence of the Lord.<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

Billy Preston, My Sweet Lord<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Harrison, Hear Me Lord<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

George Harrison, All Things Must Pass<\/a>.  Harrison was the Beatle with depth. Lennon the radical, McCartney the romantic<\/a>, Starr the regular guy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bonus cuts<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Stanley Bros., Rank Strangers<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Gospel Plow<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, See that My Grave is Kept Clean<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Father of Night<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Iris Dement, Will the Circle be Unbroken?<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Andrea Bocelli and Alison Krauss, Amazing Grace<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

…………………………<\/p>\n

JSO sends us to Will You Remember Me?<\/a> by the Pine Box Boys. The dessicated soul of the secularist is incapable of understanding religion.  He thinks he will eradicate it. But religion, like philosophy, always buries its undertakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, The Presidential Message on Holy Week, 2025<\/a>. Quite a change from that 'good Catholic' Joe Biden's Transgender Visibility Day of last Easter.  And if memory serves, Hillary spouted some equally offensive nonsense the year before that, but what she spouted I have forgotten.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First off, six definite de-couplings of rock and roll from sex and drugs. Norman Greenbaum, Spirit in the Sky Johnny Cash, Personal Jesus. This is one powerful song. Clapton and Winwood, Presence of the Lord.  Billy Preston, My Sweet Lord George Harrison, Hear Me Lord George Harrison, All Things Must Pass.  Harrison was the Beatle with depth. Lennon the radical, McCartney the … Continue reading “Holy Saturday Night at the Oldies”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}