{"id":1,"date":"2010-08-19T17:50:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/?p=1"},"modified":"2010-09-21T15:04:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T19:04:57","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"The Nighthawks New Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/LastTrainSM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22\" title=\"LastTrainSM\" src=\"http:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/LastTrainSM.jpg\" alt=\"Last Train to Bluesville\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a>The Nighthawks are happy to announce their new CD,<em><strong> &#8220;Last Train to Bluesville.&#8221;<\/strong><\/em> It was recorded live this year at\u00a0<em><strong>B.B. King&#8217;s Bluesville channel<\/strong><\/em> on\u00a0<em><strong>Sirius\/XM<\/strong><\/em> satellite radio. Some of the tracks have already received airplay as\u00a0Bluesville&#8217;s &#8220;<em><strong>Homemade\u00a0Blues\u00a0Jams.<\/strong><\/em>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0session was done without amps or electric instruments.\u00a0<em><strong>Paul Bell<\/strong><\/em> played his beautiful\u00a0<em><strong>National Steel resonator guitar<\/strong><\/em>,<em><strong> Johnny\u00a0Castle<\/strong><\/em> thumped his\u00a0<em><strong>Clevenger upright bass<\/strong><\/em>,\u00a0<em><strong>Pete Ragusa<\/strong><\/em> used brushes on a\u00a0<em><strong>parade snare drum<\/strong><\/em> and\u00a0<em><strong>Mark Wenner<\/strong><\/em> blasted away on his custom-tuned\u00a0<em><strong>Hohner harmonicas<\/strong><\/em> without a mic! Although many of the tunes have been on previous Nighthawks recordings,\u00a0we never played them like this.\u00a0The selections lean\u00a0bluesy, with several\u00a0<em><strong>Muddy Waters<\/strong><\/em> classics plus\u00a0<em><strong>Little Walter and Sonny Boy, along with Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry and\u00a0James Brown<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Nighthawks Release &#8220;Last Train to Bluesville&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenighthawks.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}