{"id":1006,"date":"2008-09-28T18:40:59","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T18:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:27:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:27:35","slug":"in_concert_grea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/09\/in_concert_grea.html","title":{"rendered":"In Concert: Great Lake Swimmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting a long long time to see this band.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/08\/three_days_fri.html\">As I may have mentioned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What can I say, a month later when I realize I never wrote this up?  They&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatlakeswimmers.com\/\">Canadian<\/a>.  They&#8217;re in that whole current vein of mountain-y lookin&#8217; men (Sea Wolf, Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver); except that unlike those bands most of the singing is done by just the one dude.  (And they have more albums out, been around a bit longer.)  Their songs are lush and dark and deep and layered.  And lovely.  Did I mention lovely?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I thought the crowd was a bit more idiotic than normal; I would make such a great bouncer as I would escort people out for yelling stupid things and being morons and talking too fucking loud during quiet songs.  Perhaps that shall be my next career (if you haven&#8217;t heard, I may be on the lookout for one).<\/p>\n<p>They sounded gorgeous.  I&#8217;d go see them again in a heartbeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been waiting a long long time to see this band. As I may have mentioned. What can I say, a month later when I realize I never wrote this up? They&#8217;re Canadian. They&#8217;re in that whole current vein of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/09\/in_concert_grea.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-recommending","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1597,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}