{"id":324,"date":"2016-08-21T09:41:39","date_gmt":"2016-08-21T09:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinphilipsmith.wordpress.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2016-08-21T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T09:41:39","slug":"inspirations-for-the-martin-smith-band-number-8-albert-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/?p=324","title":{"rendered":"Inspirations for the Martin Smith Band number 8 : Albert King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My series of homage posts to the great artists that provide inspiration to The Martin Smith Band continues. \u00a0Last time, I honoured one &#8220;King of the Blues&#8221;, the mighty B.B. \u00a0 \u00a0This time up we have another&#8230; \u00a0Albert King. \u00a0 As well as being one of the great songwriters of the blues (Born Under a Bad Sign, Oh Pretty Woman, As The Years Go Passing By etc.), \u00a0his tasteful guitar playing and soulful voice made him one of the genre&#8217;s greatest performers. His recordings with Stax are great examples of that place where blues and soul meet. \u00a0Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: \u00a0Albert King<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Albert King - Born Under A Bad Sign\" width=\"470\" height=\"353\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Py37G9qsfY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My series of homage posts to the great artists that provide inspiration to The Martin Smith Band continues. \u00a0Last time, I honoured one &#8220;King of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,4,5,9,10],"tags":[13,14,22],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/albertking.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alterativus.com\/martinphilipsmith\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}