{"id":29340,"date":"2021-04-23T23:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=29340"},"modified":"2021-04-23T23:21:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T21:21:38","slug":"grant-haua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2021\/04\/grant-haua\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Haua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-29341\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/grant-haua-awa-blues.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/grant-haua-awa-blues.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/grant-haua-awa-blues.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/grant-haua-awa-blues.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Na het debuut <em>Knucklehead<\/em> uit 2010 ontmoette <a href=\"https:\/\/granthaua.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grant Haua<\/a> percussionist Michael Barker en vormde met hem de band Swamp Thing. Die maakte enkele platen, maar twee jaar geleden besloot de Nieuw-Zeelander het weer solo te proberen. <strong>Awa Blues<\/strong> (Dixiefrog\/Bertus) is een bluesalbum met wortels in de grond van zijn geboorteland. Op <em>This Is The Place<\/em> zingt hij deels in het Maori. \u2018The bones of my fathers under the ground, guide my feet \/ The song of my mothers, whispers through the trees.\u2019 Haua zingt met een schrapende stem. Dat past bij <!--more-->een liedje over <em>Addiction<\/em> zou je zeggen, maar de waarheid is dat het een betoog is om iemand van zijn verslaving af te helpen. Sympathieke bluesrock met funky momenten. En een bekende boodschap: <em>Devil Is A Woman<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4FGQyAIxeY\" width=\"440\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Na het debuut Knucklehead uit 2010 ontmoette Grant Haua percussionist Michael Barker en vormde met hem de band Swamp Thing. Die maakte enkele platen, maar twee jaar geleden besloot de Nieuw-Zeelander het weer solo te proberen. Awa Blues (Dixiefrog\/Bertus) is een bluesalbum met wortels in de grond van zijn geboorteland. Op This Is The Place [&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-29340","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\/29340","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=29340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29343,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29340\/revisions\/29343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}