{"id":10226,"date":"2012-04-11T07:30:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T15:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=10226"},"modified":"2012-04-11T15:29:40","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:29:40","slug":"preview-sampling-m-ward-to-play-soho-santa-barbara-saturday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-04\/preview-sampling-m-ward-to-play-soho-santa-barbara-saturday-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview Sampling:  M. Ward to Play Soho in Santa Barbara This Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been huge fans of Central Coast &#8220;local&#8221; <strong>M. Ward<\/strong> from the get-go.\u00a0 His <strong>Transfiguration of Vincent<\/strong> album remains one of our all-time favorites.\u00a0 Ward attended <strong>Cal Poly<\/strong> and cut his musical chops in San Luis Obispo as a member of <strong>Rodriguez<\/strong>.\u00a0 Despite this local connection, we have only seen him briefly in a short (but lively) set at last year&#8217;s <strong>Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival<\/strong> and as a key component of the luminous<strong> Monsters of Folk<\/strong> show at the <strong>Granada Theater<\/strong> in 2009 (the best show of that year).\u00a0 So we are keyed up to catch his compositions and consummate playing in concert this Saturday at Soho in Santa Barbara.\u00a0 For a flavor, check out his recent performances of new song <em><strong>Primitive Girl<\/strong><\/em> (off his just-released new album, <strong>A Wasteland Companion<\/strong>) on <strong>Conan<\/strong> last night (courtesy of the Audio Perv), and of <em><strong>Chinese Translation<\/strong><\/em> recently for KCRW.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VideoBam video player\" src=\"http:\/\/videobam.com\/widget\/QqMri\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M. Ward performing &quot;Chinese Translation&quot; Live at KCRW&#039;s Apogee Sessions\" width=\"635\" height=\"357\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvnYP5G_og8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been huge fans of Central Coast &#8220;local&#8221; M. Ward from the get-go.\u00a0 His Transfiguration of Vincent album remains one of our all-time favorites.\u00a0 Ward attended Cal Poly and cut his musical chops in San Luis Obispo as a member of Rodriguez.\u00a0 Despite this local connection, we have only seen him briefly in a short [&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-10226","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\/10226","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=10226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}