{"id":6064,"date":"2016-11-05T17:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-hard-songs\/"},"modified":"2016-11-05T17:59:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-05T17:59:55","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-hard-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/05\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-hard-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Hard’ Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Woody Guthrie, Hard Travelin'<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Winter, Hard Way<\/a>.  Fine blues guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Baez, A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall<\/a>.  I've been listening to this version of the Dylan classic for 50 years and I still love it.  Brings tears to my eyes every time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Chicago, Hard Habit to Break<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Elvis Presley, Hard Headed Woman<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Seeds, Pushin' Too Hard<\/a>.  A cheesy tune by a '60s garage band.  Video intro by the late Casey Kasem.  His reference to the Southland is to the So. Cal. area.<\/span><\/p>\n

Johnny Winter, Life is Hard<\/a>.  "Life is hard, and then you die."  "The devil wears a blue dress and she is bound to get you in the end."<\/span><\/p>\n

Billy Joel, A Hard Day's Night<\/a>, live, Frankfurt, 1994.<\/span><\/p>\n

Three Dog Night, Easy to be Hard<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Related: Saturday Night at the Oldies:  Gerry Goffin and Casey Kasem<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Woody Guthrie, Hard Travelin' Johnny Winter, Hard Way.  Fine blues guitar. Joan Baez, A Hard Rain's a Gonna Fall.  I've been listening to this version of the Dylan classic for 50 years and I still love it.  Brings tears to my eyes every time. Chicago, Hard Habit to Break Elvis Presley, Hard Headed Woman The … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Hard’ 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-6064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064","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=6064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}