{"id":165,"date":"2011-03-18T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2011-03-18T13:53:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T20:53:09","slug":"the-chieftains-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"The Chieftains is coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/thevinylcountdown3000.files.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/chieftains.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"277\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pip Pip! The Vinyl Countdown has been down for sometime, but it is not out! Today, we start back up again with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechieftains.com\/\">The Chieftains<\/a>. Six albums worth. (gulp) The perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s Day and the beginning of Spring.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you don&#8217;t know The Chieftains by name, but you have heard  them. If a a backup Irish folk band was ever needed by someone, they  were undoubtedly the ones called upon. They&#8217;ve played with Elvis  Costello, Mark Knopfler, Luciano Pavorotti, Ricky Skaggs, the Rolling  Stones. The list goes on and on, really, but they have nabbed six  Grammies of their own and have been playing flute-tin whistle-fiddle  since 1962. I think I probably first took note of them when there was  that brief wave of Irish music that lapped up onto our shores in the  mid\/late 90s &#8211; Enya, The Corrs, Sinead O&#8217;Connor, Loreena McKennitt  (Canadian, not Irish), The Cranberries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ByYSkRGrMqw&amp;feature=related\">Earl Scruggs and the Chieftans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read our ever evolving <a href=\"https:\/\/spreadsheets.google.com\/ccc?key=0Ap2F2lP00dqacjhmVTN0VnJSVFhtY1JlM19fLW83enc&amp;hl=en#gid=0\">spreadsheets of albums<\/a> we&#8217;ve listened to, lessons we&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n<p>-A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pip Pip! The Vinyl Countdown has been down for sometime, but it is not out! Today, we start back up again with The Chieftains. Six albums worth. (gulp) The perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s Day and the beginning of Spring. Perhaps you don&#8217;t know The Chieftains by name, but you have heard them. If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.murraystreet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}