{"id":4030,"date":"2009-01-07T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=4030"},"modified":"2009-01-07T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T19:37:10","slug":"exclusive-first-listen-andrew-birds-noble-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2009\/01\/exclusive-first-listen-andrew-birds-noble-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive First Listen: Andrew Bird&#8217;s Noble Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=98649962&#038;sc=nl&#038;cc=asc-20090105\"><strong>NPR:<\/strong><\/a> Andrew Bird is an unlikely rock star. A classically trained violinist and former swing-jazz musician, he performs a quirky mix of Gypsy ballads, jazz, folk and art-rock, with frequently whistled melodies. It&#8217;s a sound that leaves critics swooning and fans giddy with the kind of devotion normally reserved for pop idols. At a recent performance in Chicago, a crush of more than 15,000 Bird fans filled Millennium Park to hear the gangly singer, complete with young women in the audience screaming, &#8220;I love you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/andrew-bird.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Andrew Bird\" width=\"320\" height=\"270\" class=\"imgborder\" \/><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"http:\/\/mligon08.blogspot.com\/2007_09_01_archive.html\">photo credit<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/noble-beast.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Noble Beast\" class=\"pic_50px\" \/>Fat Possum Records and Andrew Bird have offered an exclusive preview of the entire Noble Beast release on NPR Music, which is out for release 20th of January.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=98649962&#038;sc=nl&amp;cc=asc-20090105\" class=\"audio_link\">You can stream it here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR: Andrew Bird is an unlikely rock star. A classically trained violinist and former swing-jazz musician, he performs a quirky mix of Gypsy ballads, jazz, folk and art-rock, with frequently whistled melodies. It&#8217;s a sound that leaves critics swooning and fans giddy with the kind of devotion normally reserved for pop idols. At a recent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}