{"id":6004,"date":"2016-11-26T17:31:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/26\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-easy-songs\/"},"modified":"2016-11-26T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:31:14","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-easy-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/26\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-easy-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Easy’ Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electric Flag, Groovin' is Easy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Eagles, Take it Easy<\/a>.  A great road song. This one goes out to Kathy H. who objected to these lines:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, I'm a standing on a corner<\/span>
In Winslow, Arizona<\/span>
Such a fine sight to see<\/span>
It's a girl, my lord, in a flat bed Ford<\/span>
Slowin' down to take a look at me.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eagles, Peaceful Easy Feeling<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Essex, Easier Said Done<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Linda Ronstadt, It's So Easy<\/a>. The old Buddy Holly tune.<\/span><\/p>\n

Marty Robbins, Am I That Easy to Forget?<\/a>  A country classic. Here<\/a> is George Jones' version.<\/span><\/p>\n

Byrds, The Ballad of Easy Rider<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Frank Sinatra, Nice 'n' Easy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ringo Starr, It Don't Come Easy<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

And that just scratches the surface.  My main principle of selection?  I have to like the song. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Electric Flag, Groovin' is Easy Eagles, Take it Easy.  A great road song. This one goes out to Kathy H. who objected to these lines: Well, I'm a standing on a cornerIn Winslow, ArizonaSuch a fine sight to seeIt's a girl, my lord, in a flat bed FordSlowin' down to take a look at me. … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Easy’ Songs”<\/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-6004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004","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=6004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}