{"id":947,"date":"2016-04-18T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2017-07-07T17:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T21:09:39","slug":"chicken-is-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/chicken-is-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Is Nice (Dave Van Ronk\/Howard Hayes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chicken Is Nice\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/USSrTw9CCVU?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>One of the pleasures of <em>Dave Van Ronk: Folksinger<\/em> was that along with the blues performances that made it a classic of the 1960s revival, it had oddities like &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.elijahwald.com\/songblog\/mister-noah\/\">Mr Noah<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;Chicken Is Nice.&#8221; I learned Dave&#8217;s versions of both almost immediately, because the lyrics stuck in my head on a couple of hearings and they were easy to play. 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