{"id":1337,"date":"2011-08-02T05:15:02","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1337"},"modified":"2011-08-02T05:16:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T05:16:29","slug":"pokey-lafarge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1337","title":{"rendered":"Pokey LaFarge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I stumbled across a musician. \u00a0Not literally stumbled, you know, but somewhere in all my internet ramblings I was introduced to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokeylafarge.net\/\">Pokey LaFarge<\/a>. \u00a0All I can say is that I was immediately smitten with his music. \u00a0His songs sound like vintage Americana while somehow sounding entirely modern, too. \u00a0I read a bit more about him and found out his band is known as the South City Three. \u00a0And, why are they named South City Three? \u00a0Because they&#8217;re from MY south city &#8212; St. Louis. \u00a0Turns out, Pokey lives here too. \u00a0How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll be playing this Wednesday FOR FREE at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mobot.org\/events\/Whitaker\/default.asp\">Whitaker Music Festival\u00a0<\/a>at the Botanical Gardens here in St. Louis. \u00a0Needless to say, I&#8217;m planning on going.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested, the folks at NPR had Pokey and his pals in for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/04\/20\/135508843\/pokey-lafarge-tiny-desk-concert\">tiny desk concert. \u00a0<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0It&#8217;s only 9 minutes long and worth a listen.<\/p>\n<p>Also, on NPR, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/07\/11\/137678233\/first-listen-pokey-lafarge-and-the-south-city-three-middle-of-everywhere\">listen to the new album, <em>Middle of Nowhere<\/em>, \u00a0in its entirety<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Need to know more? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/07\/11\/137678233\/first-listen-pokey-lafarge-and-the-south-city-three-middle-of-everywhere\">This<\/a>\u00a0is a good review. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nodepression.com\/profiles\/blogs\/album-reviews-pokey-lafarge\">This<\/a>\u00a0is too.<\/p>\n<p>Want to join me?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, I stumbled across a musician. \u00a0Not literally stumbled, you know, but somewhere in all my internet ramblings I was introduced to Pokey LaFarge. \u00a0All I can say is that I was immediately smitten with his music. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=1337\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1337"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1337\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}