{"id":1372,"date":"2012-01-28T11:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T11:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.wordpress.com\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2012-01-28T11:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T11:35:05","slug":"independent-superstar-lee-marcus-goes-for-reuben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/28\/independent-superstar-lee-marcus-goes-for-reuben\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Superstar Lee Marcus Goes Reuben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/28\/independent-superstar-lee-marcus-goes-for-reuben\/leemarcus02s\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1374\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1374\" title=\"leemarcus02s\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/leemarcus02s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/leemarcus02s.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/leemarcus02s-300x164.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>WHISNews21\u00a0just wanted to let yall know that one of our Independent Superstars Lee Marcus\u00a0 was recently asked to contribute to an article on Engine 145 honoring the 88th Birthday of Mr. Earl Scruggs. Please take a moment and check it out. If you would like, you can leave a comment and share your favorite Scruggs tune as well. Here is the link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reverbnation.com\/c\/fan_reach\/pt?eid=A634234_10768376_41429588_lnk1010&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.engine145.com%2Ffriday-five-earl-scruggs%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.engine145.com\/friday-five-earl-scruggs\/<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is the article as published on Engine 145:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/28\/independent-superstar-lee-marcus-goes-for-reuben\/p\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1373\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1373\" title=\"Earl Scruggs\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/earlscruggs01.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/earlscruggs01.jpg 600w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/earlscruggs01-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Earl Scruggs turns 88 today, so to celebrate the five-string legend\u2014who is also a mighty fine guitar player and singer\u2014we reached out to a few of the myriad banjo players he\u2019s has influenced over the past sixty-plus years and asked them to select their favorite Scruggs tune.<\/p>\n<p>Give a listen to the songs below while you check out the <em>Tennessean<\/em>\u2018s Scruggs <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tennessean.com\/tunein\/2012\/01\/06\/happy-birthday-earl-scruggs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo gallery<\/a>, and tell us: what\u2019s your personal favorite Earl Scruggs song? This morning, mine is \u201cGround Speed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This was\u00a0Independent Superstar\u00a0Lee&#8217;s choice below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/leemarcus2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lee Marcus<\/strong><\/a>: My personal favorite Earl Scruggs tune is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00137T7KS?tag=engin145-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cReuben.\u201d<\/a> It is one of the simplest, yet most soulful banjo instrumentals written thus far. And no one can play it with more soul than Mr. Scruggs.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Marcus will have his very first hit song &#8220;Carolina Dreams&#8221; available on Wildhorse\u00a0Entertainment for free download\u00a0on the 1st of February. We are extremely proud to feature an artist of \u00a0Lee Marcus\u00a0calibre a true professional instrumentalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHISNews21\u00a0just wanted to let yall know that one of our Independent Superstars Lee Marcus\u00a0 was recently asked to contribute to an article on Engine 145 honoring the 88th Birthday of Mr. Earl Scruggs. Please take a moment and check it out. If you would like, you can leave a comment and share your favorite Scruggs tune as well. Here is the link: http:\/\/www.engine145.com\/friday-five-earl-scruggs\/\u00a0 Here is the article as published on Engine 145: Earl Scruggs turns 88 today, so to celebrate the five-string legend\u2014who is also a mighty fine guitar player<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/28\/independent-superstar-lee-marcus-goes-for-reuben\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}