{"id":4822,"date":"2015-01-03T19:04:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T03:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/?p=4822"},"modified":"2015-01-03T19:05:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T03:05:19","slug":"thirty-records-about-america-a-mixtape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2015\/01\/thirty-records-about-america-a-mixtape\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty Records About America\u2014A Mixtape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to post quite a bit about music here on the Where The Blog Has No Name, so please excuse the interruption of blogs on education and politics.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve slowly been working my way through Bob Dylan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobdylan.com\/ca\/news\/bob-dylan-complete-album-collection-vol-1\"><em>Complete Album Collection Vol. 1<\/em><\/a> the past year while reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2011\/may\/15\/bob-dylan-writings-marcus-review\"><em>Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010<\/em><\/a> by Greil Marcus. This is not a project I want to rush.<\/p>\n<p>Marcus&#8217; book includes a particularly inspired piece from the May 28, 1998 <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, &#8220;Thirty Records About America.&#8221; Below is a link to a Rdio playlist based on the article (minus a great record by Fastbacks &#8220;In America&#8221; that is not available).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/rd.io\/i\/QVL_TjPi6Qg\/\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And, if you&#8217;re not into the old stuff, here&#8217;s a link to my favourite non-Dylan tunes released in 2014:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/rd.io\/i\/QVL_TjPJmMI\/\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to post quite a bit about music here on the Where The Blog Has No Name, so please excuse the interruption of blogs on education and politics. I&#8217;ve slowly been working my way through Bob Dylan&#8217;s Complete Album Collection Vol. 1 the past year while reading Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2154,1],"tags":[874203,1063267,1063270,458,1044460,1063269,459],"class_list":["post-4822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-post","category-uncategorized","tag-bob-dylan","tag-greil-marcus","tag-mixtape","tag-music","tag-playlist","tag-rdio","tag-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4826,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4822\/revisions\/4826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}