{"id":1402,"date":"2016-02-08T10:12:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1402"},"modified":"2016-06-10T01:13:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T08:13:18","slug":"song-man-poetry-and-music-crossovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/?p=1402","title":{"rendered":"Song Man- Poetry and Music crossovers&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/songman.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/songman.jpg?resize=300%2C464&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"songman\" width=\"300\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/songman.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/songman.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have just finished this book by Will Hodgkinson. A companion to his first tome &#8216;Guitar Man&#8217; it pretty much what it says on the label. A series of encounters with various songwriters underpinning his first and possibly last recorded work being recorded at Liam Watson&#8217;s Toe Rag studios and then released as a 7&#8243; single.<\/p>\n<p>A charming book. As my drunken Rockabilly band also recorded at Liam&#8217;s Toe Rag as did a unheard of garage band called The White Stripes everything described rings true. I found the encounters with Andy Partridge, Chip Taylor and Richard Hawley the most engrossing and could possibly have done with more from their interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Overall a worthwhile read if interested in songwriters and the un-pleasantries of trying to form and keep together a band. The final encounter with Shirley Collins and a brief reprise of Bert Jansch leads directly\u00c2\u00a0nicely onto his next book &#8216; The Ballad of Britain&#8217; which next on my reading list.<\/p>\n<p>Most interestingly the musicians comments were quite pertinent to my writers block with poetry\/prose. I found Hawley most entertaining with his comments where\u00c2\u00a0he quotes Hendrix..&#8217;<em>learn everything, forget everything, play&#8217;.<\/em>..and how other people&#8217;s music &#8216;<em>knocked him off his radar<\/em>&#8216;&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just finished this book by Will Hodgkinson. A companion to his first tome &#8216;Guitar Man&#8217; it pretty much what it says on the label. A series of encounters with various songwriters underpinning his first and possibly last recorded work being recorded at Liam Watson&#8217;s Toe Rag studios and then released as a 7&#8243;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,40,64,52,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creative-writing","category-faction","category-music","category-oral-literature","category-songwriting"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6nhh-mC","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1404,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402\/revisions\/1404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaunbelcher.com\/writing\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}