{"id":1306,"date":"2020-01-09T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T03:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2020\/01\/09\/20200109-thesaddlesores\/"},"modified":"2022-04-20T09:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T14:02:16","slug":"20200109-thesaddlesores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2020\/01\/09\/20200109-thesaddlesores\/","title":{"rendered":"The musical prowess of The Saddle Sores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at the event calendar for one of our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercerdancehall.com\/events-calendar\/\">favorite dance halls<\/a> and saw a band on the schedule that I wasn&#8217;t familiar with. The band goes by the somewhat off-putting name of The Saddle Sores. Their publicity photo was intriguing so I found some of their music online, and followed a few links, and ended up being completely blown away by their musicianship on the following YouTube video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ui-droppable\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4Omml6mHKxY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The guitarist and lead vocalist is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeremy.slemenda\">Jeremy Slemenda<\/a>. He hails from South Carolina, but now lives in the Austin area, and he&#8217;s a member of several bands as well as owning a music amp repair business. His guitar work is impressive, as is that of the fiddle player, but I was even more awestruck by the skill of the keyboard player. Even if you don&#8217;t take the time to listen to all 7+ minutes of this medley, at least listen to the piano solos at the 1:30 and 6:00 minute marks.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know if we&#8217;ll make the hourlong drive to catch their act in Driftwood, but it&#8217;s always fun to discover something that reinforces the belief that the musical talent in Central Texas is apparently endless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking at the event calendar for one of our favorite dance halls and saw a band on the schedule that I wasn&#8217;t familiar with. The band goes by the somewhat off-putting name of The Saddle Sores. Their publicity photo was intriguing so I found some of their music online, and followed a few&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2020\/01\/09\/20200109-thesaddlesores\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The musical prowess of The Saddle Sores<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[23,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-texas-hill-country","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9973,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}