{"id":362,"date":"2010-09-27T12:59:19","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/09\/27\/bluegrass_funkpop_heavenly_or_hellacious_you_decide\/"},"modified":"2010-09-27T12:59:19","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T17:59:19","slug":"bluegrass_funkpop_heavenly_or_hellacious_you_decide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/09\/27\/bluegrass_funkpop_heavenly_or_hellacious_you_decide\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluegrass Funk\/Pop: Heavenly or Hellacious? You decide&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s with all these bluegrass musicians doing covers of contemporary songs? First, there was Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby covering Rick James&#8217;s classic funk hit, <i>Super Freak<\/i>:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AHPhZwZKvzk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Now, a bluegrass group called The Cleverlys has resurrected the 80s pop classic, <i>Walk Like an Egyptian<\/i>, originally performed by The Bangles.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w9OrgwFxgDs\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have to admit that the latter performance borders on mesmerizing, especially the scary drummer. I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d want to meet up with him during a canoe trip in the Ozarks.<\/p>\n<p><i>Latter link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2010\/09\/27\/bluegrass-cover-of-walk-like-an-egyptian\/\">Neatorama<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<style><\/style>\n<style><\/style>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s with all these bluegrass musicians doing covers of contemporary songs? First, there was Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby covering Rick James&#8217;s classic funk hit, Super Freak: Now, a bluegrass group called The Cleverlys has resurrected the 80s pop classic, Walk Like an Egyptian, originally performed by The Bangles. I have to admit that the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/09\/27\/bluegrass_funkpop_heavenly_or_hellacious_you_decide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bluegrass Funk\/Pop: Heavenly or Hellacious? You decide&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","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\/362","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=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}