{"id":1691,"date":"2011-07-30T14:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T18:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2011-07-30T14:13:22","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T18:13:22","slug":"the-north-mississippi-allstars-dont-have-near-enough-north-mississippi-in-the-music-ive-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1691","title":{"rendered":"The North Mississippi Allstars don&#8217;t have near enough North Mississippi in the music I&#8217;ve heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to make this music a second language. \u00a0I&#8217;m trying to learn an accent that I already have. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t grow up as the child of Jim Dickinson, with every advantage to learn this sound. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have RL Burnside and Junior Kimbrough and Mississippi Fred McDowell and Kenny Brown to sit with me and personally teach me how to do this.<\/p>\n<p>So why does there music sound more like the Allman Brothers and other generic Jam Band stuff? \u00a0I&#8217;m not busting on someone because they&#8217;re not authentic. \u00a0Hell, I&#8217;m not authentic. \u00a0I&#8217;m just upset that the music doesn&#8217;t sound better. \u00a0Luther Disckinson can play circles around me on guitar. \u00a0But the name of his band is DAMNED misleading.<\/p>\n<p>End of rant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m trying to make this music a second language. \u00a0I&#8217;m trying to learn an accent that I already have. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t grow up as the child of Jim Dickinson, with every advantage to learn this sound. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t have RL &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=1691\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1692,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}