{"id":675,"date":"2020-11-05T15:48:57","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=675"},"modified":"2020-11-05T15:49:03","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T15:49:03","slug":"when-i-put-the-record-on","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=675","title":{"rendered":"When I Put The Record On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"When I Put the Record On\" width=\"819\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Mo1KZCWDORM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My courtship with recorded music occurred in two phases. The first was dominated by Elvis Presley. For reasons I can\u2019t quite fathom, I latched on to Elvis when I saw a television ad for an Elvis calendar when I was five years old. I may have caught a bit of one of his movies some weekend afternoon as well. Whatever the exact catalyst, I asked for (and received) an Elvis record for my 6<sup>th<\/sup> or 7<sup>th<\/sup> birthday. If memory serves, the opening track was called \u201cThat\u2019s All Right\u201d and to say that it lit me up would be an understatement. What had been a strange curiosity became a full-on obsession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many a weekend my dad took me to a store in Penn Hills called Grants to buy a different Elvis \u201csingle.\u201d \u201cHound Dog.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t Be Cruel.\u201d \u201cReturn to Sender.\u201d I\u2019d rush home after school every day to rock on the edge of my bed and sing along with Elvis. Thanks to Elvis, I got my first guitar and thanks to Elvis, a desire to perform began to stir in me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cut to 9<sup>th<\/sup> grade. I shared a room with my older brother who was on a slightly different music-loving path, one I eventually caught up to. The record that sealed my conversion was Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash &#8211; that first one where they are sitting on a couch on a front porch, I think. My previous Elvis obsession transferred directly onto \u201cSuite: Judy Blue Eyes\u201d which became, in a way, my first class in songwriting. Damn. That song. The way it shifted from movement to movement. The exhilarating poetry of the lyrics. The tight yet soaring harmonies. The transcendence of the final shift. I was never the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That road splintered into dozens, hundreds, thousands more. CSN led to Neil Young who led to Jackson Brown who led back to David Crosby who steered me on over to Joni Mitchell. Brennan (my brother) didn\u2019t love Bruce Springsteen, but he did (thankfully) get into \u201cNebraska,\u201d so that secured that chunk of my inspiration-foundation. I inhaled all those records, all of that music, through my ears and my pores and directly into my bloodstream. It was my everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that is what this song is paying homage to!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/us\/album\/when-i-put-the-record-on\/62962831?i=62962803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"78\" src=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/applemusic-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-190\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/5dBvKyYpuds2OsmknBie29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"216\" height=\"87\" src=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/spotify-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-191\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:30px\"> Archives<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=669\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"669\">Bound to Be &#8211; 10\/30\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=664\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"664\">Lost in America &#8211; 10\/23\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=656\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"656\">In My Head &#8211; 10\/16\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=652\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"652\">Start Again &#8211; 10\/9\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=642\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"642\">Morning Sounds &#8211; 10\/2\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=632\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"632\">Saint Jude &#8211; 9\/25\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=622\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"622\">1970s &#8211; 9\/18\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=610\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"610\">Blue Sky Song &#8211; 9\/11\/2020<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/?page_id=24\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"24\">Midnight Ghost &#8211; 9\/4\/2020<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My courtship with recorded music occurred in two phases. The first was dominated by Elvis Presley. For reasons I can\u2019t quite fathom, I latched on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":676,"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675\/revisions\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billdeasy.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}