{"id":42437,"date":"2025-11-26T10:15:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=42437"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:15:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T09:15:38","slug":"betty-wont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2025\/11\/betty-wont\/","title":{"rendered":"Betty Won&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-42438\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1348874806_10.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1348874806_10.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1348874806_10.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1348874806_10.jpg?zoom=2&amp;resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a1348874806_10.jpg?zoom=3&amp;resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Ha, naast Jenny Don&#8217;t\u00a0 is er nu ook <a href=\"https:\/\/bettywont.bandcamp.com\/album\/trouble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Betty Won&#8217;t<\/a>. Deze vijfpersoonband komt uit Minneapolis\/St. Paul en wordt aangevoerd door zangeres Margo Babb. <strong>Trouble<\/strong> (eigen beheer) is hun tweede volledige album. Daarop staan 10 eigen songs en een, overigens heerlijke, cover van <em>Psycho<\/em> van Leon Payne (\u2018the blind balladeer\u2019). Kenmerkend voor de sound van Betty Won&#8217;t is de wat dwingende stem van Babb, de heerlijke twangy danwel jazzy gitaarsound van Eliot Gordon en het zoemende orgel van Sheela Iris. Countrypunk, maar veel meer country dan punk. In elk geval geen muziek die<!--more--> je bij een romantisch etentje zal afspelen. Maar als deze band de sound van dit <em>Trouble<\/em> ook live kan waarmaken, dan is een optreden van Betty Won&#8217;t een belevenis die je vast bijblijft. Topnummers, naast de eerdergenoemde cover, zijn <em>Fast<\/em> waarin een fascinerend stukje luisterspel zit dat niet goed afloopt, <em>Bad Dog<\/em> en het openingsnummer <em>Ditch<\/em>. Alleen om deze nummers verdient <em>Trouble<\/em> een veel breder publiek dan alleen de inwoners van de Twin Cities. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\"><em>Trouble<\/em>\u00a0is verkrijgbaar als download en op LP. Ook te beluisteren via de streamingdiensten.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=1180417527\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=e99708\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/track=3709659890\/transparent=true\/\" seamless=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bettywont.bandcamp.com\/album\/trouble\">Trouble by Betty Won&#8217;t<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ha, naast Jenny Don&#8217;t\u00a0 is er nu ook Betty Won&#8217;t. Deze vijfpersoonband komt uit Minneapolis\/St. Paul en wordt aangevoerd door zangeres Margo Babb. Trouble (eigen beheer) is hun tweede volledige album. Daarop staan 10 eigen songs en een, overigens heerlijke, cover van Psycho van Leon Payne (\u2018the blind balladeer\u2019). Kenmerkend voor de sound van Betty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-42437","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\/42437","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42437"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42459,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42437\/revisions\/42459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}