{"id":1038,"date":"2008-10-30T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:19:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:19:53","slug":"in_concert_sam_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/in_concert_sam_.html","title":{"rendered":"In Concert: Sam Phillips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once a million years ago (late 80s\/early 90s), I got this Rolling Stone mix tape, one selection of which was <strong>&#8220;Where the Colors Don&#8217;t Go&#8221; <\/strong>by Sam Phillips, a song I have listened to off and on ever since. Then <a href=\"http:\/\/video.movies.go.com\/ladder49\/main.html\">Ladder 49 <\/a>came out with both a great Joaquin performance AND <strong>&#8220;How to Dream&#8221; <\/strong>another great Sam Phillips song. And somewhere along the way I heard &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioparadise.com\/content.php?name=songinfo&amp;song_id=37193\">I Need Love<\/a>&#8220;, which is just a GREAT song.<\/p>\n<p><em>You&#8217;re a secret I whisper to myself<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all I knew going in. She&#8217;s a real show&#8221;man&#8221;, so to speak. Very late-night bar\/cabaret feel. Unusual instrumentation, very focused. Similar to going to a Joe Henry or Joan Baez concert. And speaking of Joe Henry, I am 99% sure that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moderndrummer.com\/updatefull\/200001123\">Jay Bellerose<\/a>, who blew my mind at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_joe.html\">the Joe Henry concert<\/a>, was also the drummer for Sam Phillips. Wow.<\/p>\n<p>If you are buying me a birthday present next year: percussion lessons with Jay Bellerose please! Thanks! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><em>Broken like a window, I see my blindness now<br \/>\nAnd I need love, not some sentimental prison<br \/>\nI need God, not the political church<br \/>\nI need fire to melt the frozen sea inside me<br \/>\nI need love<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a million years ago (late 80s\/early 90s), I got this Rolling Stone mix tape, one selection of which was &#8220;Where the Colors Don&#8217;t Go&#8221; by Sam Phillips, a song I have listened to off and on ever since. Then &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/10\/in_concert_sam_.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":[9,12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-lyrics","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","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=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3624,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions\/3624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}