{"id":3305,"date":"2020-03-07T17:56:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-robbie-robertson-and-the-band\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T17:56:49","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-robbie-robertson-and-the-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/07\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-robbie-robertson-and-the-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Robbie Robertson and the Band"},"content":{"rendered":"

True 'sixties veterans will enjoy the Band documentary Once Were Brothers<\/a>.  And if you don't, then you are not a true 'sixties veteran.  (This is known in the trade as the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy.  I prefer to call it the No True Muslim Fallacy<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

New Yorker article<\/a> about the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Weight<\/a>. Robertson sat down one day to write a song and peering into his Martin guitar read, "Martin Guitars, Nazareth, Pennslylvania." This inspired the line, "I pulled into Nazareth, feelin' about half-past dead."<\/span><\/p>\n

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down<\/a>. Nothing hippy-trippy or psychedelic about these '60s musicians. Pure Americana. Rooted, autochthonic.<\/span><\/p>\n

I Shall Be Released<\/a>. The synergy benefited both the Bard and the Band. They helped him move farther from the mind and closer to the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

Up on Cripple Creek<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Chest Fever<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Don't Do It<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

When I Paint My Masterpiece<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Shape I'm In<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Forever Young<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Lost Distance Operator<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Orange Juice Blues<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Bonus Cut: Rick Danko and Paul Butterfield, Java Blues<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

True 'sixties veterans will enjoy the Band documentary Once Were Brothers.  And if you don't, then you are not a true 'sixties veteran.  (This is known in the trade as the 'No True Scotsman' fallacy.  I prefer to call it the No True Muslim Fallacy.) New Yorker article about the movie. The Weight. Robertson sat … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Robbie Robertson and the Band”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","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=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}