{"id":9850,"date":"2012-03-17T19:45:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-green-songs\/"},"modified":"2012-03-17T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-17T19:45:52","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-green-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/17\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-green-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Green’ Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was going to cover 'strange' songs tonight, but then I remembered it is St. Patrick's Day.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Remember The New Christy Minstrels?  Here<\/a> is Barry Maguire belting out their 1963 hit, <\/span>
Green, Green."  It was sanitized, well-scrubbed hootenany stuff like this that caused a lot of my generation to pick up guitars and then find our way back to the more authentic material.  Check out this video <\/a>of a live performance at an Arizona university.  This was before the '60s became the '60s. But by '65 the cultural as opposed to the calendrical  '60s had arrived with a vengeance and the same Barry Maguire came out with The Eve of Destruction<\/a>.  Topical songs and social protest came to displace songs about Tom Dooley and workin' on the railroad . . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

Joan Baez, Green, Green Grass of Home<\/a>.  Red Foley<\/a> does a great job with this 'green' song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoyt Axton, Greenback Dollar<\/a>. Here<\/a> is the Kingston Trio's cleaned-up collegiate version.  Fretkillr's  killer amateur version<\/a> is modelled on Hoyt Axton's.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hoyt Axton, Greensleeves<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jim Lowe, Green Door<\/a>, 1956.<\/span><\/p>\n

Roy Buchanan, Green Onions<\/a>.  A guitar-slinger's version.<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, a song about the lean green<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

And now to bed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was going to cover 'strange' songs tonight, but then I remembered it is St. Patrick's Day.  Remember The New Christy Minstrels?  Here is Barry Maguire belting out their 1963 hit, Green, Green."  It was sanitized, well-scrubbed hootenany stuff like this that caused a lot of my generation to pick up guitars and then find our … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: ‘Green’ 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-9850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850","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=9850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}