{"id":1666,"date":"2007-09-05T22:44:02","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T02:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/05\/musical-interlude-seasick-steve\/"},"modified":"2007-09-05T22:44:02","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T02:44:02","slug":"musical-interlude-seasick-steve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/05\/musical-interlude-seasick-steve\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical interlude: Seasick Steve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing really to do with Web 2.0, or social media &#8212; other than it&#8217;s a YouTube clip, I suppose. I just came across it somewhere in my feed reader and thought it was fascinating, since I am a big fan of blues guitar played the old-fashioned way. And this is about as old-fashioned as it gets.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a video clip of someone named Seasick Steve, who (according to his <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seasick_Steve\">Wikipedia page<\/a>) is a Mississippi-born former hobo and railroad-hopper who plays a three-stringed guitar called the Three-Stringed Trance Wonder and accompanies himself on the Mississippi Drum Machine &#8212; a wooden box with a piece of carpet on top. Enjoy. <\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading this via RSS, you can click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/F9MOalhXaiI\">here<\/a>. YouTube also has some clips of Steve playing the one-string Diddley Bow.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=F9MOalhXaiI&#038;w=425&#038;h=350]<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has nothing really to do with Web 2.0, or social media &#8212; other than it&#8217;s a YouTube clip, I suppose. I just came across it somewhere in my feed reader and thought it was fascinating, since I am a big fan of blues guitar played the old-fashioned way. And this is about as old-fashioned &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/05\/musical-interlude-seasick-steve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Musical interlude: Seasick Steve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}