{"id":853,"date":"2009-11-23T22:58:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T20:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=853"},"modified":"2009-11-23T22:59:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T20:59:10","slug":"blue-life-in-the-navy-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2009\/11\/blue-life-in-the-navy-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue | Life In The Navy (UK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-854\" title=\"Blue\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Blue.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"Blue\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>Als Hugh Nicholson (zang, gitaar, toetsen), Ian MacMillan (zang, bas, gitaar) en Timmy Donald (drums) in 1973 Blue oprichten, hebben ze hun sporen reeds verdiend in bands als The Poets, White Trash en Marmalade. Vanuit Glasgow, Schotland bedienen ze het Verenigd Koninkrijk met melodieuze popmuziek \u00e0 la Badfinger en Big Star, en debuteren op Robert Stigwoods label met het fraaie zelfgetitelde <em>Blue<\/em>. Na de toevoeging van gitarist Robert &#8216;Smiggy&#8217; Smith vertrekt Blue naar Californi\u00eb om daar het tweede album op te nemen. Dit geschiedt in <!--more-->de Alembic Recording Studios in San Francisco met behulp van Neil Young-coryfee\u00ebn als producer Elliot Mazer en pedal steel-speler Ben Keith, wat <em>Life In The Navy<\/em> tot een soort van Schots Westcoast-album maakt. De mooie harmonieuze liedjes bezitten geweldige samenzang \u00e0 la Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash, getuige &#8216;Love&#8217;, &#8216;Sweet Memories&#8217; en &#8216;Let&#8217;s Talk It Over&#8217;. Weergaloos is &#8216;Sad Sunday&#8217;, dat niet alleen meeslepende harmoniezang kent, maar ook nog eens rauw stotende en solerende elektrische gitaren in de beste Neil Young &amp; Crazy Horse-traditie. <em>Life In The Navy<\/em> komt uit in 1974, echter tot grote onverschilligheid van het publiek.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sweet Memories \/ Lonesome \/ Sad Sunday \/ Atlantic Ocean \/ Love \/ Max Bygraves \/ You Give Me Love \/ Big Bold Love \/ Mr. Moon \/ Let&#8217;s Talk It Over<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Als Hugh Nicholson (zang, gitaar, toetsen), Ian MacMillan (zang, bas, gitaar) en Timmy Donald (drums) in 1973 Blue oprichten, hebben ze hun sporen reeds verdiend in bands als The Poets, White Trash en Marmalade. Vanuit Glasgow, Schotland bedienen ze het Verenigd Koninkrijk met melodieuze popmuziek \u00e0 la Badfinger en Big Star, en debuteren op Robert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wowflutter"],"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\/853","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}