{"id":18784,"date":"2016-12-15T23:57:23","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=18784"},"modified":"2016-12-15T23:57:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:57:39","slug":"stephen-simmons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2016\/12\/stephen-simmons\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Simmons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.writteninmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/wp-post-thumbnail\/V7pgkV.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>\u2018So I headed West \/ And I hopped a train \/ Traded my old dirt plow \/ For a prospecting claim.\u2019 Onderweg, altijd maar onderweg. De troubadour wil niet anders. Van <em>West<\/em> naar elders. Hij is ergens en hij gaat weer weg. Net zo makkelijk. <em>One Fast Move<\/em> en hij is verdwenen. <strong>A World Without<\/strong> (Blue Rose Records\/Sonic Rendezvous) van <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stephensimmonsmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Simmons<\/a> staat weer vol met dat soort liedjes. \u2018With my Cowboy Ways \/ And my Puritan Roots \/ I set out each day \/ And I seek to live true\u2019, klinkt het op <em>Puritan Cowboys<\/em>. Simmons brengt waardigheid. Hij zoekt <!--more-->zijn eigen weg over <em>The Music Highway<\/em>: \u2018Well I hitched a ride to Memphis with a ragtag band \/ They were chasin\u2019 Rock N Roll and women in a van \/ I was chasin\u2019 the blues with the strongest whisky I could get \/ And chasin\u2019 the truth and a tune in my head.\u2019 Simmons mag een beetje nasaal zingen, je volgt hem op zijn woord. Want ook al vlamt het nergens hoog op, de passie dringt tot het diepste door. \u2018A world without art has no hope\u2019, geeft hij nog mee als wijze les op <em>On Top Of A World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018So I headed West \/ And I hopped a train \/ Traded my old dirt plow \/ For a prospecting claim.\u2019 Onderweg, altijd maar onderweg. De troubadour wil niet anders. Van West naar elders. Hij is ergens en hij gaat weer weg. Net zo makkelijk. One Fast Move en hij is verdwenen. A World Without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18786,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18784\/revisions\/18786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}