{"id":7986,"date":"2011-01-04T16:27:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2017-04-17T05:47:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T09:47:47","slug":"midweek-music-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/midweek-music-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Music Break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Low Anthem's home page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lowanthem.com\/band.php\" target=\"_blank\">The Low Anthem<\/a>, performing a haunting &#8220;Ghost Woman Blues&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div class=\"intrinsic-container intrinsic-container-16x9\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vpadm5i_CKU?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>As far as I can tell, for this song they&#8217;ve (slightly) reworked the song by that name written by one George Carter, in 1929. Not many sites list its lyrics, either, but I did find a couple of versions that go (approximately!) like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Ghost Woman Blues<\/strong><br \/>\n(George Carter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On my way home by that lonesome graveyard,<br \/>\nOn my way home by that lonesome graveyard,<br \/>\nA ghost jumped out&#8230; she was young.<\/p>\n<p>Wasn&#8217;t no ghost at all. Someone asked for a ride.<br \/>\nWasn&#8217;t no ghost at all. Someone asked for a ride.<br \/>\nShe said &#8220;Boy, come here. Take me to your room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My ghost woman, man, she sure do keep me thin.<br \/>\nMy ghost woman, man, she sure do keep me thin.<br \/>\nShe spend all my money I make on the L&amp;N.<\/p>\n<p>I ain&#8217;t no lamp, but my wick is burning low.<br \/>\nI ain&#8217;t no lamp, but my wick is burning low.<br \/>\nCome and trim my wick, before it refuse to glow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I don&#8217;t know, but assume, that &#8220;the L&amp;N&#8221; refers to the <a title=\"Wikipedia, on the Louisville &amp; Nashville Railroad\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Louisville_and_Nashville_Railroad\" target=\"_blank\">Louisville &amp; Nashville Railroad<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Low Anthem, performing a haunting &#8220;Ghost Woman Blues&#8221;: As far as I can tell, for this song they&#8217;ve (slightly) reworked the song by that name written by one George Carter, in 1929. Not many sites list its lyrics, either, but I did find a couple of versions that go (approximately!) like this: Ghost Woman [&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":[2252,74],"tags":[2140,2141,2142],"class_list":{"0":"post-7986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-midweek-music-break","7":"category-music","8":"tag-the-low-anthem","9":"tag-ghost-woman-blues","10":"tag-george-carter","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-24O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19203,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/19203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}