I was wandering through a store picking up some stuff for my daughter last night. One of the clerks had a boombox, tuned to “The Current” (MPR’s alt-music affiliate)…<\/p>\n
…and I had one of those musical bolts from the blue I occasionally get.\u00a0 Not sure why, but a song just stopped me in my tracks, something I hadn’t heard in probably decades.\u00a0 Vaguely southwestern-sounding, with a scrummy slide-guitar part and a tenor singer I couldn’t quite place, and a sober but engrossing hook…<\/p>\n
…anyway, I stood in the aisle for probably three minutes, watching the boombox, like if I walked away the song would stop.<\/p>\n
I probably bought more stuff than I should have, to reassure the staff I was really OK.<\/p>\n
Oh, it was the 1970 original of this son<\/a>g, by the late George Harrison – with a band featuring G.E. Smith<\/a> – a guitar player whose intrusive, aggressive style I have always desperately wanted to dislike, but just can’t – on the signature slide part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was wandering through a store picking up some stuff for my daughter last night. One of the clerks had a boombox, tuned to “The Current” (MPR’s alt-music affiliate)… …and I had one of those musical bolts from the blue I occasionally get.\u00a0 Not sure why, but a song just stopped me in my tracks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}