{"id":11493,"date":"2012-07-18T10:49:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=11493"},"modified":"2012-07-18T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T18:54:53","slug":"bob-welch-and-fleetwood-macs-forever-early-afro-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-07\/bob-welch-and-fleetwood-macs-forever-early-afro-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Bob Welch and Fleetwood Mac&#8217;s &#8220;Forever&#8221;&#8211;Early Afro-Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is for those (<strong>Millennials<\/strong> or <strong>Gen-Y<\/strong>) that think <strong>Vampire Weekend<\/strong> was the first band to incorporate <strong>African music<\/strong> elements into American pop music.\u00a0 But seriously, this is for those (<strong>Gen-X<\/strong> and <strong>Boomers<\/strong>) that think <strong>Paul Simon<\/strong> was the first to use African music in pop.\u00a0 <strong>Thirteen years before<\/strong> Simon&#8217;s much-vaunted <strong>Graceland<\/strong> was released, <strong>Fleetwood Mac&#8217;s Bob Welch, Mick Fleetwood<\/strong> and the <strong>McVies<\/strong> were dabbling in African-influenced pop music.\u00a0 As <strong>Exhibit A<\/strong>, we give you their 1973 song, <em><strong>Forever<\/strong><\/em> (penned and sung by Bob Welch) off of their fine album <strong>Mystery to Me<\/strong>.\u00a0 Listen in and hear, amongst other things, juju elements a la the great <strong>King Sunny Ade<\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong>Bob Welch<\/strong>, you are missed.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XiavWgXBI3A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is for those (Millennials or Gen-Y) that think Vampire Weekend was the first band to incorporate African music elements into American pop music.\u00a0 But seriously, this is for those (Gen-X and Boomers) that think Paul Simon was the first to use African music in pop.\u00a0 Thirteen years before Simon&#8217;s much-vaunted Graceland was released, Fleetwood [&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-11493","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\/11493","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=11493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}