{"id":621,"date":"2007-08-04T06:55:16","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T06:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=621"},"modified":"2014-03-07T12:58:17","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:58:17","slug":"dept-of-co-incidence-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Dept of Co-Incidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 10 days or so I&#8217;ve been deeply immersed in a project that&#8217;s excavating and organizing stuff from my [enormous] collection of &#8220;British Isles music&#8221; (mostly in and around the so-called &#8216;revival&#8217; of the 60s and 70s). I&#8217;ve been listening to old records, reading books, hunting up lyrics and tablature of tunes, and generally rolling in it like a **spaniel in dead fish** to coin a trope. This process brought me to Anne Briggs, a truly singular singer who ignited a good bit of the tinder that was lying around in the early 1960s. I&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dazzling-Stranger-Jansch-British-Revival\/dp\/0747587256\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1\/002-8661680-9998435?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1185579715&#038;sr=8-1\"><b>Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival<\/b><\/a>, and today I find, three Google pages deep in a search, <a href=\"http:\/\/music.guardian.co.uk\/folk\/story\/0,,2140273,00.html\">Gone but not forgotten<\/a> (&#8220;In a rare interview, Anne Briggs talks to Alexis Petridis about her &#8216;lost classic&#8217; folk album &#8211; and why she has hardly sung a note for 34 years&#8221;), published<\/p>\n<p>(wait for it&#8230; wait for it)<\/p>\n<p>Friday August 3, 2007 in the <b>Guardian<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I am, as they say, gobsmacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 10 days or so I&#8217;ve been deeply immersed in a project that&#8217;s excavating and organizing stuff from my [enormous] collection of &#8220;British Isles music&#8221; (mostly in and around the so-called &#8216;revival&#8217; of the 60s and 70s). I&#8217;ve been listening to old records, reading books, hunting up lyrics and tablature of tunes, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}