{"id":4475,"date":"2019-03-10T16:34:32","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2019-03-12T02:22:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T02:22:59","slug":"new-mix-roots-of-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/10\/new-mix-roots-of-country\/","title":{"rendered":"New mix by Egg: Roots of Country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"500\" width=\"500\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c.saavncdn.com\/487\/Country-Music-Jukebox-The-Roots-of-Country-Music-English-2015-500x500.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve never much liked country music, but over the last couple of years I started realizing that that&#8217;s partly because what I always knew as country music is a particular, slicked-up, pop-music Nashville style, and I&#8217;ve gotten interested in investigating the earlier history and roots of country (African-American string bands, Appalachian mountain music, gospel, blues, Hawaiian slack-key guitar, Mexican bandera, Childe-ballad-type folk music of the British Isles, etc). I&#8217;m still not all that knowledgeable about it, but I got to talking with my dad about it while I was on vacation, and ended up putting together a quick and dirty 50-minute mix that tries to show some of that early evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can stream or download it <a href=\"http:\/\/home.novonon.com\/mixes\/2019RootsOfCountry\/\">here<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never much liked country music, but over the last couple of years I started realizing that that&#8217;s partly because what I always knew as country music is a particular, slicked-up, pop-music Nashville style, and I&#8217;ve gotten interested in investigating the earlier history and roots of country (African-American string bands, Appalachian mountain music, gospel, blues, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-1ab","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4481,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/4481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}