{"id":3348,"date":"2014-06-28T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T18:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2014-06-28T13:04:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T18:04:34","slug":"weve-lost-another-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/28\/weve-lost-another-one\/","title":{"rendered":"We&#8217;ve Lost Another One&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <em>June 27<\/em>, <em><strong>Bobby Womack<\/strong><\/em> died at the age of 70&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I know a lot of you probably don&#8217;t know who he was, but, if you know anything at all about <strong>R &amp; B<\/strong> and <strong>R &amp; R<\/strong>, you should&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0With his wife Shirley (at the time), he wrote one of my all-time favorite <em><strong>Stone&#8217;s<\/strong><\/em> cover songs &#8211; <em><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s All Over Now&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; and, unfortunately, \u00c2\u00a0for <em><strong>Bobby Womack<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; <em>It Is.<\/em>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Sorry if that sounds cold, but, we&#8217;ve been losing great musicians and artists from the greatest period of original music ever produced &#8211; <em>&#8217;50&#8217;s thru &#8217;70&#8217;s<\/em> &#8211; at such a startling rate that you just start accepting it and<em><strong> &#8220;Keep on Truckin&#8217; &#8220;<\/strong><\/em> &#8217;cause if you think of it too much, you&#8217;ll crash and burn&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0Yeah, there&#8217;s still good music being made these days, but, <strong>NOT<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0in the quantity and quality of that <strong>golden period<\/strong>&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0And, yeah, <em>I&#8217;m prejudiced<\/em>, of course, because I grew up right in the middle of all this and I still enjoy playing and recording&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, June 27, Bobby Womack died at the age of 70&#8230;.. \u00c2\u00a0I know a lot of you probably don&#8217;t know who he was, but, if you know anything at all about R &amp; B and R &amp; R, you should&#8230;&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0With his wife Shirley (at the time), he wrote one of my all-time favorite Stone&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}