{"id":768,"date":"2006-09-19T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T23:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/we-shall-overcome\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T18:35:25","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T23:35:25","slug":"we-shall-overcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/we-shall-overcome\/","title":{"rendered":"We Shall Overcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent Bruce Springsteen album (ok, it was released in April) is a tribute to Pete Seeger, a famous folk singer from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s.  The album is excellent, I hadn&#8217;t really given it a good listen until only recently and it&#8217;s very very good.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s old old folks songs that have been reworked into an infectious romp of gospel, folk, and dixie flavoured goodness that&#8217;s bound to stay with you.\u00c2\u00a0  I have no deep insight into what Bruce is trying to tell us all by making an album of songs made popular by a Communist folk singer, for professional analysis of that you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Seeger\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/artists\/brucespringsteen\/albums\/album\/9940660\/review\/9961290\">here<\/a>, and best of all <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchforkmedia.com\/article\/record_review\/22262\/Bruce_Springsteen_We_Shall_Overcome_The_Seeger_Sessions\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What I can tell you for sure is that Bruce can sing anything and make it sound good, and he just makes damn fine records.  Go buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most recent Bruce Springsteen album (ok, it was released in April) is a tribute to Pete Seeger, a famous folk singer from the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. The album is excellent, I hadn&#8217;t really given it a good listen until &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/19\/we-shall-overcome\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-co","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}