{"id":14017,"date":"2013-06-19T14:47:59","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T18:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=14017"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:45:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T15:45:33","slug":"midweek-music-break-aoife-odonovan-red-white-blue-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/midweek-music-break-aoife-odonovan-red-white-blue-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break: Aoife O&#8217;Donovan, &#8220;Red &#038; White &#038; Blue &#038; Gold&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/aoifeodonovan.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"width: 100%;\" title=\"Aoife O'Donovan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/johnesimpson.com\/images\/aoifeodonovan_sm.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Aoife O'Donovan\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Standup comedian Robert Klein used to do a short routine about US President James A. Garfield. Every reference to Garfield (1831-81), said Klein, said exactly the same thing about him. Apparently Garfield never actually did anything else; consequently, they all said:\u00a0<em>Shot by a disappointed office seeker.<\/em> &#8220;George Washington: Father of our country. Abraham Lincoln: the Civil War. James A. Garfield: shot by a disappointed office seeker.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The present artist is something like that, in one respect: pretty much every interview with or feature about her includes this information somewhere in the first paragraph.To wit: <a title=\"Wikipedia, on Aoife O'Donovan\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aoife_O%27Donovan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aoife O&#8217;Donovan<\/a>&#8216;s first name is pronounced <em>EE-fuh<\/em>. (I&#8217;m not saying it&#8217;s required, but I&#8217;m damned if I&#8217;ll be the first to break the chain.)<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donovan has had a successful career already, as a member of &#8220;neo-bluegrass&#8221; band Crooked Still and the &#8220;folk noir&#8221; trio Sometymes Why. Her first solo album, <i>Fossils<\/i>, debuted last week. I&#8217;d previewed several of the songs already, at one site or another, and I gotta say: love at first hearing &#8212; even without being able to parse out all the lyrics. (And the album&#8217;s so new that the lyrics haven&#8217;t started to be posted anywhere online, it seems.)<\/p>\n<p><em>Fossils<\/em> has gotten so many rave reviews one might be inclined to conspiracy-and-collusion theories&#8230; but yes, I think it&#8217;s really that good, and I&#8217;m just a tiny caboose at the tail end of a loooong train of praise.<\/p>\n<p>Here she is in a live performance of one of the songs on the album, &#8220;Red &amp; White &amp; Blue &amp; Gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/event\/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=189583816&amp;mediaId=189584439\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><em>[Lyrics to come]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and here is &#8220;Beekeeper,&#8221; from the album:<\/p>\n<div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p><em>[Lyrics to come]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Donovan will join Garrison Keillor and company this summer on his &#8220;<a title=\"Radio Romance tour site\" href=\"http:\/\/prairiehome.publicradio.org\/tickets\/2013\/radio-romance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Radio Romance<\/a>&#8221; national tour. Live performance tickets are not something The Missus and I normally spring for, and Keillor almost never ventures this far south anyhow. But I&#8217;d have to fight temptation not to see her in concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standup comedian Robert Klein used to do a short routine about US President James A. Garfield. Every reference to Garfield (1831-81), said Klein, said exactly the same thing about him. Apparently Garfield never actually did anything else; consequently, they all said:\u00a0Shot by a disappointed office seeker. &#8220;George Washington: Father of our country. Abraham Lincoln: the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"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,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","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}},"categories":[410,2252,74],"tags":[3518,3519],"class_list":{"0":"post-14017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hearing","7":"category-midweek-music-break","8":"category-music","9":"tag-aoife-odonovan","10":"tag-robert-klein","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-3E5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14017"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26145,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14017\/revisions\/26145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}