{"id":10081,"date":"2012-03-29T07:42:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10081"},"modified":"2012-03-29T07:45:49","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T15:45:49","slug":"bill-callahan-covers-mickey-newburys-heaven-help-the-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-03\/bill-callahan-covers-mickey-newburys-heaven-help-the-child\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Callahan Covers Mickey Newbury&#8217;s &#8220;Heaven Help the Child&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10083\" title=\"largeMN\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/largeMN.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"476\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/largeMN.jpg 476w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/largeMN-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/largeMN-450x256.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 476px) 100vw, 476px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dragcity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Drag City<\/a>\u00a0released a 7&#8242; single featuring two of our favorite performers,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-06\/bill-callahan-concertus-interruptus\/\"><strong> Bill Callahan<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-04\/heaven-help-the-child-mickey-newburys-lost-masterpiece\/\"><strong>Mickey Newbury<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve written repeatedly about both.\u00a0 On the new release, Bill Callahan (who almost never covers other artists&#8217; songs) covers Mickey Newbury&#8217;s all-time great 1973 track <em><strong>Heaven Help the Child<\/strong><\/em>, backed by Newbury&#8217;s stellar original.\u00a0 To top it off, Drag City and Callahan have released a black and white video of his cover below.\u00a0 Great stuff.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"600\" height=\"400\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=39069923&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" \/><embed width=\"600\" height=\"400\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=39069923&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=00adef&amp;fullscreen=1&amp;autoplay=0&amp;loop=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week,\u00a0Drag City\u00a0released a 7&#8242; single featuring two of our favorite performers, Bill Callahan and Mickey Newbury.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve written repeatedly about both.\u00a0 On the new release, Bill Callahan (who almost never covers other artists&#8217; songs) covers Mickey Newbury&#8217;s all-time great 1973 track Heaven Help the Child, backed by Newbury&#8217;s stellar original.\u00a0 To top it off, [&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-10081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}