{"id":9888,"date":"2012-03-03T18:42:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/03\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-guns-and-gun-violence\/"},"modified":"2012-03-03T18:42:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T18:42:50","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-guns-and-gun-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/03\/03\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-guns-and-gun-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Guns and Gun Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jr. Walker and the All Stars, Shotgun<\/a><\/span>
Beatles, Revolver<\/a> (the whole album!)<\/span>
Hoyt Axton, Pistol Packin' Mama<\/a>.  Al Dexter wrote the song<\/a> and had a hit with it in '43.<\/span>
Lloyd Price, Stagger Lee<\/a>, 1959.  "Stagger Lee went home and got his .44 . . ."  Mississippi John Hurt's version<\/a>.<\/span>
The Leaves, Hey Joe<\/a>.  "Hey Joe, where you going with that gun in your hand?"<\/span>
Gene Pitney, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance<\/a>, 1962<\/span>
Johnny Western, The Ballad of Palladin<\/a>.  Theme song of "Have Gun Will Travel." Duane Eddy's cheesy version<\/a>.<\/span>
Tom Waits, Sixteen Shells from a Thirty-Aught Six<\/a><\/span>
Phil Ochs, The Men Behind the Guns<\/a><\/span>
Joan Baez, Rock Salt and Nails<\/a>.  "If the ladies was squirrels with high bushy tails\/I'd fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails."<\/span>
No, I will not link to Sonny and Cher's "Bang, Bang"!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jr. Walker and the All Stars, ShotgunBeatles, Revolver (the whole album!)Hoyt Axton, Pistol Packin' Mama.  Al Dexter wrote the song and had a hit with it in '43.Lloyd Price, Stagger Lee, 1959.  "Stagger Lee went home and got his .44 . . ."  Mississippi John Hurt's version.The Leaves, Hey Joe.  "Hey Joe, where you going … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Guns and Gun Violence”<\/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-9888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888","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=9888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}