{"id":920,"date":"2005-10-11T22:01:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-12T02:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/singersongwrite"},"modified":"2005-10-11T22:01:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-12T02:01:56","slug":"singersongwrite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Singer\/Songwriters at Oddfellas Cantina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the first Thursday of every month, patrons at <a href=\"www.oddfellascantina.com\/\">Oddfellas Cantina<\/a> get to hear the offerings of regional singer\/songwriters like <a href=\"http:\/\/billpaynemusic.net\/\">Bill Payne<\/a> and Sonny Campbell (who doesn&#8217;t have a website yet). Bill is on the left with his guitar &#8211; Sonny is on the right playing his bass.<a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/paynecampbell.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=402,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"470\" height=\"295\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Paynecampbell\" title=\"Paynecampbell\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/images\/paynecampbell.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These two are balladeers in the oldest tradition. We enjoyed hearing them sing and play songs about their personal experiences, about war and a lot of other subjects. They call their music Blue Ridge Americana and it makes for very pleasant listening. <\/p>\n<p>The performance was occasionally uneven, because they do not play together often, but that did not diminish our pleasure in hearing them perform original material. I was impressed enough to buy two of their CDs, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/bebophoedown\">Bebop Hoedown<\/a>&nbsp; and <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/billpayne\">Naughty and Nice<\/a> . <\/p>\n<p>Listening to them made me realize the vast gulf between skilled performers who smoothly interpret other people&#8217;s songs and the unmistakable authenticity of a musician who performs his own compositions. The singer\/songwriter delivers the message first-hand and there is no substitute for that heart to heart communication.<\/p>\n<p>Britt Mistele, President of the Southwest Virginia Songwriters Association, is the man responsible for booking singer\/songwriters into Oddfellas Cantina. You will have a chance to see him and his next group of singer\/songwriters on November 3rd. Make it a point to be there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the first Thursday of every month, patrons at Oddfellas Cantina get to hear the offerings of regional singer\/songwriters like Bill Payne and Sonny Campbell (who doesn&#8217;t have a website yet). Bill is on the left with his guitar &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=920\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1810,1820],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-eQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}