{"id":12640,"date":"2016-10-11T05:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T10:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=12640"},"modified":"2016-10-10T17:07:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T22:07:22","slug":"listening-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=12640","title":{"rendered":"Listening to&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"AndyShauf\" href=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5646\/29842377490_08d10c8d89_s.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"AndyShauf\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5646\/29842377490_08d10c8d89_b.jpg\" alt=\"AndyShauf\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Party, Andy Shauf (cover art by Meghan Fenske)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a long-time fan of Andy Shauf, Canadian songwriter and artist who plays all the instruments in his songs (with the exception of the strings in The Party, played by Colin Nealis) &#8212; the clarinet is his defining sound, in my opinion. I have been listening to this album with all the windows open lately. It reminds me of a retro album from my childhood, and each song tells a story, so <em>listen<\/em>. Just sheer joy. Thank you, kind sir, for continuing to make such beautiful music. And please, for the love of your American fans, please come tour in the U.S.!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PN0RPWII7gY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listen to (and support!) Andy Shauf&#8217;s full album, The Party (I think my favorite song is <em>Martha Sways)<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/andyshauf.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-party\">here<\/a>. And he&#8217;s just as great live. Check him out on NPR&#8217;s Tiny Desk Concert:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QcGs8rBynL0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Party, Andy Shauf (cover art by Meghan Fenske) I&#8217;m a long-time fan of Andy Shauf, Canadian songwriter and artist who plays all the instruments in his songs (with the exception of the strings in The Party, played by Colin Nealis) &#8212; the clarinet is his defining sound, in my opinion. I have been listening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/?p=12640\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Listening to&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12640"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12671,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12640\/revisions\/12671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crumbbums.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}