{"id":811,"date":"2016-04-06T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T11:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2017-03-01T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-02T02:56:40","slug":"relax-your-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Relax Your Mind\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i1QWRz_1-I8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I admired Lead Belly&#8217;s music more than I actually listened to it, which is why the few guitar arrangements I play of his come from Pete Seeger and Julius Lester&#8217;s book,<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-812 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg?resize=250%2C245\" alt=\"Leadbelly's last sessions\" width=\"250\" height=\"245\" \/> <em>The 12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly<\/em>. But the big exception to that rule was <em>Leadbelly&#8217;s Last Sessions, Part Two<\/em>. I liked that album so much that I can&#8217;t imagine why I never got Parts one, three, or four&#8230; but that&#8217;s how it was. I was particularly taken by the odder tracks &#8212; odd, that is, for those of us who thought of Lead Belly as an old-time folk-blues singer: my favorite was &#8220;Dancing with Tears in My Eyes&#8221; (Cause the Girl in My Arms Isn&#8217;t You), and old pop waltz that he played magnificently, but I also liked the Hawaiian song (&#8220;It was silent on the island of Hawai&#8217;i&#8230;&#8221;), and the Pig Latin song, not to mention &#8220;Silver City Bound,&#8221; and &#8220;New Iberia,&#8221; and &#8220;Relax Your Mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I don&#8217;t know how much attention I would have paid to &#8220;Relax Your Mind&#8221; if I hadn&#8217;t had tablature for it, but I did, and it&#8217;s a pretty wonderful object. Frederic Ramsey, who recorded the Last Sessions, reported that Lead Belly wrote it at the behest of the National Automobile Safety Council, but they declined to used it, which, if true, just demonstrates a typical bureaucratic lack of imagination.<\/p>\n<p>I like to think of this song as &#8220;Zen and the Art of Driving.&#8221; As Lead Belly said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of people don&#8217;t know to relax &#8212; cause I used to didn&#8217;t relax, myself&#8230;.\u00a0 I made this song just on account of the people driving cars. You can&#8217;t drive a car and look all across the road. You got to look down the road, the way you going. Cause that&#8217;s caused so much trouble now. So many people lost, that&#8217;s true. Not relaxing.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.<\/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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly) - Old Friends: A Songobiography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly) - Old Friends: A Songobiography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Old Friends: A Songobiography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-04-06T11:00:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-03-02T02:56:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Elijah Wald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ElijahWald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ElijahWald\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Elijah Wald\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Elijah Wald\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\"},\"headline\":\"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly)\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-06T11:00:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-02T02:56:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":340,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/\",\"name\":\"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly) - Old Friends: A Songobiography\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-04-06T11:00:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-03-02T02:56:40+00:00\",\"description\":\"Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2016\\\/03\\\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/relax-your-mind\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly)\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/\",\"name\":\"Old Friends: A Songobiography\",\"description\":\"Revisiting the songs that have made a home in my head\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9\",\"name\":\"Elijah Wald\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\",\"width\":70,\"height\":85,\"caption\":\"Elijah Wald\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i1.wp.com\\\/www.elijahwald.com\\\/songblog\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2015\\\/12\\\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly) - Old Friends: A Songobiography","description":"Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly) - Old Friends: A Songobiography","og_description":"Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/","og_site_name":"Old Friends: A Songobiography","article_published_time":"2016-04-06T11:00:39+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-03-02T02:56:40+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Elijah Wald","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@ElijahWald","twitter_site":"@ElijahWald","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Elijah Wald","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/"},"author":{"name":"Elijah Wald","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9"},"headline":"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly)","datePublished":"2016-04-06T11:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2017-03-02T02:56:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/"},"wordCount":340,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/","url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/","name":"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly) - Old Friends: A Songobiography","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg","datePublished":"2016-04-06T11:00:39+00:00","dateModified":"2017-03-02T02:56:40+00:00","description":"Zen and the art of automobile safety, as taught by Sensei Huddie Ledbetter.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Leadbellys-last-sessions.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/relax-your-mind\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Relax Your Mind (Lead Belly)"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/","name":"Old Friends: A Songobiography","description":"Revisiting the songs that have made a home in my head","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/#\/schema\/person\/20e4f69f2f284ea0ff728a9d1b7720a9","name":"Elijah Wald","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1","url":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1","width":70,"height":85,"caption":"Elijah Wald"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/elijahbut.jpg?fit=70%2C85&ssl=1"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":759,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/hung-him-on-the-cross\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":0},"title":"They Hung Him on the Cross (Lead Belly)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"March 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't remember the chronology clearly, but I think I first got Pete Seeger and Julius Lester's instruction book on how to play Lead Belly's 12-string guitar style, and it was another few months or maybe even a year before I persuaded my mother to buy me a 12-string. Actually,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"12-string as played by leadbelly","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/12-string-as-played-by-leadbelly-232x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4543,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/one-dime-blues\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":1},"title":"One Dime Blues (Lemon Jefferson)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"December 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I love Lemon Jefferson's singing and playing, and for a while immersed myself in his guitar style, but he was such a distinctive and quirky player\u00a0 that most of my efforts just sounded like half-assed imitations of what he happened to play on a given day. I've kept playing his\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/blind-lemon-Jefferson-239x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2703,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/any-old-time\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":2},"title":"Any Old Time (Jimmie Rodgers)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"April 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Living with the vagaries of the folk scene, I came late to Jimmie Rodgers -- not because he was obscure, but on the contrary because his albums were available on a major label, RCA, at a time when I was buying reissue records on labels like Folkways, Yazoo, and Arhoolie.\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Maria-Muldaur-300x298.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1098,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/poor-howard-fandango\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":3},"title":"Poor Howard\/Spanish Fandango (fretless banjos and parlor guitar)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"May 8, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Exploring the disparate, intertwining roots of American vernacular guitar, with Lead Belly for the banjo and Henry Worral for middle class parlor music.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"lead belly","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/lead-belly.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":970,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/on-a-monday\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":4},"title":"On a Monday (Lead Belly and racist stereotypes)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"April 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I got this from Lead Belly, but more specifically from The Leadbelly Songbook -- I have no clear memory of hearing him sing it, and may have heard it by Pete Seeger or any number of other people, but I have a photographically clear memory of\u00a0 the page in that\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"leadbelly songbook","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/leadbelly-songbook-201x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3099,"url":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/readin-ritin\/","url_meta":{"origin":811,"position":5},"title":"Readin&#8217;, Ritin&#8217;, and Route 23 (Dwight Yoakam)","author":"Elijah Wald","date":"September 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The first time Dwight Yoakam's \"Guitars, Cadillacs\" came on the radio, I was driving through eastern Montana and it was the perfect soundtrack. That was 1986 and it was getting played pretty often, though not as often as his version of \"Honky Tonk Man,\" and as soon as I got\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dwight-yoakam-guitars-lp.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}