{"id":489,"date":"2011-04-17T14:37:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2011-04-17T14:37:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T22:37:58","slug":"current-listening-nancy-jacobs-1950s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/current-listening-nancy-jacobs-1950s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Listening: Nancy Jacobs 1950&#8217;s Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I attended a Paul Simon concert.\u00c2\u00a0 What I&#8217;ve appreciated about his music are the many styles he&#8217;s brought to the table, especially in his Graceland album.\u00c2\u00a0 After going to his concert, I started researching some of the bands that inspired him.\u00c2\u00a0 In learning about the <a title=\"Boyoyo Boys - Tsotsi\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZoKQctrIv_E\" target=\"_blank\">Boyoyo Boys<\/a>, I stumbled across a great track called &#8220;Baby are Yeng&#8221; by Nancy Jacobs and Her Sisters.\u00c2\u00a0 The song glorifies the youthful lifestyle in Prohibition era Chicago.\u00c2\u00a0 Nancy Jacob&#8217;s voice seems to echo a bit of <a title=\"The Andrews Sisters - Rum And Coca Cola\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zGxL2uNr7bk\" target=\"_blank\">The Andrews Sisters singing &#8220;Rum And Coca Cola&#8221;<\/a> or\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"Millie Smalls - My Boy Lollipop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZYj9J4UH8ck\" target=\"_blank\">Millie Smalls singing &#8220;My Boy Lollipop&#8221;<\/a> the first Ska song that ever saw any popularity in the US.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jZhlqUyI6fs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I attended a Paul Simon concert.\u00c2\u00a0 What I&#8217;ve appreciated about his music are the many styles he&#8217;s brought to the table, especially in his Graceland album.\u00c2\u00a0 After going to his concert, I started researching some of the bands that inspired him.\u00c2\u00a0 In learning about the Boyoyo Boys, I stumbled across a great track called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adamsonic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}