{"id":526,"date":"2011-01-06T23:17:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T07:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2016-03-08T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T18:11:47","slug":"irish-session-ftw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/06\/irish-session-ftw\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish Session FTW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night, Anna and I hit our first Irish Session &#8211; the first night of a new one, down at A Terrible Beauty in Renton. Yeah, it was awesome:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" border=1 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2011-01\/session-1-500.jpg\"><br \/><small><i>Photo by Liz Jackson<\/i><\/small><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Matt for organising it and Annie for inviting us; it ruled. There will be more. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.annathepiper.org\/2011\/01\/06\/my-very-first-irish-session\/\">Click here for Anna&#8217;s super-detailed write-up<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I wrote a new version of a traditional song &#8211; Old Black Rum (West Coast Style). I&#8217;ll be recording that for Not Quite Trad O&#8217; th&#8217; Month, tomorrow. (Check Great Big Sea&#8217;s version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fudwJZhiYxk\">here<\/a>.) Frankly, I&#8217;ve never been able to hear the line about the &#8220;queen of George Street&#8221; without having a very different vision to the original, so my version&#8217;s all Riot Grrl Dykes her Way Across Queertown Vancouver, j0. XD Want a copy? <a href=\"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/contact.php\">Sign up for the mailing list<\/a>. Or wait &#8217;till it&#8217;s on the downloads page, but then you gotta pay for it.<\/p>\n<p>DON&#8217;T FORGET: <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/while-were-waiting-for-the-mastering-to-be-finished\/\">Enter the no-cost post-a-review raffle for an Advance Review Copy of <i>Dick Tracy Must Die<\/i> today<\/a>! Or at least before Monday, the deadline. Go! <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/while-were-waiting-for-the-mastering-to-be-finished\/\">Now<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday night, Anna and I hit our first Irish Session &#8211; the first night of a new one, down at A Terrible Beauty in Renton. Yeah, it was awesome: Photo by Liz Jackson Thanks to Matt for organising it and Annie for inviting us; it ruled. There will be more. Click here for Anna&#8217;s super-detailed [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8790,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/8790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}