{"id":745,"date":"2008-01-11T14:05:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T14:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=745"},"modified":"2014-03-07T09:46:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T14:46:54","slug":"vincent-black-lightning-1952","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Black Lightning 1952"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevincent.com\/vinbl.gif\" width=400><br \/>(from http:\/\/www.thevincent.com\/)<br \/>\nTwo readings of the same text. Me, I&#8217;ve never been a participant on motorcycle lore, though I have friends who were and did. But I know a Good Song when I hear one, played here by one of the reigning geniuses of the guitar:<br \/><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AxKTzwaEa2o&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AxKTzwaEa2o&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guntheranderson.com\/v\/data\/vincentb.htm\">lyrics<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s Richard Thompson&#8217;s song (from Rumor and Sigh, 1991), one of a great many from his pen that capture humans in vulnerable moments and make their exploits live on (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acousticguitar.com\/issues\/ag98\/feature98.shtml\">an interview with RT<\/a> for some background). And Del McCoury does a remarkable job of translating it to Tennessee (Knoxville replaces Box Hill):<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YW-w0KgE-8s&#038;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YW-w0KgE-8s&#038;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a novel, due to be published in March 2008: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vincent-Black-Lightning-1952-Novel\/dp\/097872139X\/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1200076770&#038;sr=8-5\"><b>Vincent Black Lightning 1952: A Novel<\/b><\/a>, by Al Sciarrino (&#8220;&#8230;a business and entertainment law professor at State University of New York, teaches a course on Music and the Law at the Eastman School of Music and has been an aficionado of country music and motorcycles his entire life&#8230;&#8221;), but whether it&#8217;ll cast any new light on the original James Adie remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from http:\/\/www.thevincent.com\/) Two readings of the same text. Me, I&#8217;ve never been a participant on motorcycle lore, though I have friends who were and did. But I know a Good Song when I hear one, played here by one of the reigning geniuses of the guitar: (lyrics) It&#8217;s Richard Thompson&#8217;s song (from Rumor and Sigh, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745","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=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}