{"id":43102,"date":"2015-03-04T16:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T22:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=43102"},"modified":"2015-03-04T16:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T22:00:31","slug":"willie-nelson-live-at-the-ryman-730pm-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/04\/willie-nelson-live-at-the-ryman-730pm-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson Live At The Ryman 7:30pm Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Willie-Nelson03\"Willie Nelson Live At The Ryman 7:30pm Tonight<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tough as it may be to pin a definition on \u201cAmericana,\u201d Willie Nelson is its godfather. He\u2019s spent the past six decades blending traditions from all across the spectrum of American music with results that are rich, complex and an absolute joy to hear. Almost every song in his catalog could be fodder for an extensive essay, from early classics like \u201cHello Walls\u201d \u2014 a song that\u2019s as R&B as it is country, and is simultaneously one of the funniest and most heartbreaking songs ever written about loneliness \u2014 to the title track from his 2014 LP Band of Brothers<\/i>, a waltz with a snarling rock edge about making a living in today\u2019s music industry. All three times Nelson has played Nashville in the past two years \u2014 including a stop at Third Man for a star-studded taping of CMT Crossroads<\/i> to celebrate his 80th birthday \u2014 he was at the top of his game, as genteel host and leader of a hot band that borrows as much from Memphis soul and Chicago blues as it does from Bakersfield country. Just make sure you\u2019re ready to sing along when he asks you to; otherwise, it\u2019s as awkward as yuppies asking if you\u2019re holding. STEPHEN TRAGESER<\/p>\n

– Nashville Scene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Willie Nelson Live At The Ryman 7:30pm Tonight Tough as it may be to pin a definition on \u201cAmericana,\u201d Willie Nelson is its godfather. He\u2019s spent the past six decades blending traditions from all across the spectrum of American music with results that are rich, complex and an absolute joy to hear. Almost every song in his catalog could be fodder for an extensive essay, from early classics like \u201cHello Walls\u201d \u2014 a song that\u2019s as R&B as it is country, and is simultaneously one of the funniest and most<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20640,"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\/43102"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}