{"id":4289,"date":"2010-10-08T20:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T01:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2010-10-08T20:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T01:11:56","slug":"friday-night-music-mea-culpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=4289","title":{"rendered":"Friday Night Music-Mea Culpa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">Last week I opined that bagpipe music began and ended with Amazing Grace. Last night, to prove me wrong, one of our liberal drinkers loaned me a CD by a group called <em>Rare Air<\/em>. The CD is named <em>Primeval<\/em>. The group pretty much defies categorization, but I would say Celtic jazz is as close as you can come. I listened to the CD this morning, and I hereby eat my words. You can make good music with a bagpipe, at least you can if you surround it with other instruments. There isn&#8217;t much on youtube by these gents, but I found two. The first is a number called <em>New Swing Reel<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><span style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\"><object height=\"304\" width=\"380\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/h0xlKAEciEU?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/span>The second must have a name, but they never mention it in the video, and I&#8217;m not about to try to match it up with the numbers on the CD.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\"><span style=\" text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0 auto 10px;\"><object height=\"304\" width=\"380\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Km8pFVC9ImM?fs=1&#038;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/span>So, I hereby eat my words, on the subject of bagpipes. (I&#8217;m sticking to my guns about Matt Collette though)<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I opined that bagpipe music began and ended with Amazing Grace. Last night, to prove me wrong, one of our liberal drinkers loaned me a CD by a group called Rare Air. The CD is named Primeval. The group pretty much defies categorization, but I would say Celtic jazz is as close as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}