{"id":121,"date":"2004-08-30T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=121"},"modified":"2005-08-16T12:47:53","modified_gmt":"2005-08-16T02:47:53","slug":"talkin-honky-blues-buck-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2004\/08\/30\/talkin-honky-blues-buck-65\/","title":{"rendered":"Talkin&#8217; Honky Blues &#8212; Buck 65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/B0000BVL1H&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;tag=thunderguycom-20&amp;creative=9325\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/pic\/talkin-honky-blues.jpg\"\/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thunderguycom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B0000BVL1H\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the blues, but it&#8217;s also folk music, C&#038;W and rap. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buck65.com\/\">Buck 65<\/a> rhymes like an old-school MC, but has the lyrical sensibility of a beat poet and the voice of a grizzled old trucker. His hard-luck tales of life on the downside are backed by dark, country &#038; western inflected hip-hop beats. Of course, this is an oversimplification: there are a lot of different sounds and styles in here.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Buck 65 did a session for one of the the BBC&#8217;s excellent radio shows a while ago, and I was hooked. Don&#8217;t be put off by my overwrought attempts at music criticism &#8212; this album won&#8217;t change the world, but it&#8217;s well worth a listen. And the CD is worth much more than a buck 65.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the blues, but it&#8217;s also folk music, C&#038;W and rap. Buck 65 rhymes like an old-school MC, but has the lyrical sensibility of a beat poet and the voice of a grizzled old trucker. His hard-luck tales of life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2004\/08\/30\/talkin-honky-blues-buck-65\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[8,7],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-review","tag-cds","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}