{"id":128,"date":"2010-04-09T20:11:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2010-04-09T20:11:23","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T20:11:23","slug":"jesse-winchester-killing-softly-on-costellos-spectacle-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-04\/jesse-winchester-killing-softly-on-costellos-spectacle-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Winchester&#8211;Killing Softly on Costello&#8217;s Spectacle Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elvis is coming to Santa Barbara, and I was reminded by a blurb in the paper of Jesse Winchester&#8217;s heartrending performance of his newish song <em>Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding<\/em> from the second season of Costello&#8217;s spectacular Spectacle show on The Sundance Channel (Wednesday nights).\u00a0 Costello is quoted as listing this performance as the finest moment of all of the two Spectacle seasons.\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t agree more, though a surprising close second was Costello&#8217;s and Elton John&#8217;s duet on the very first Spectacle episode of the great David Ackles&#8217; song <em>Down River<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Spectacle is a treasure trove, and highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>Check out ole Jesse jerking the tears right out of Neko Case and Costello fightin&#8217; it off until he&#8217;s &#8220;finished.&#8221;\u00a0 Great performance and homage to a long, loving relationship.\u00a0 May it be so.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding - Jesse Winchester on Elvis Costello&#039;s &quot;Spectacle&quot;\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5uKGWpqnS8E?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>Elvis is coming to Santa Barbara, and I was reminded by a blurb in the paper of Jesse Winchester&#8217;s heartrending performance of his newish song Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding from the second season of Costello&#8217;s spectacular Spectacle show on The Sundance Channel (Wednesday nights).\u00a0 Costello is quoted as listing this performance as the finest moment of all of [&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-128","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\/128","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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}