{"id":13166,"date":"2012-10-28T06:15:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T14:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=13166"},"modified":"2012-10-28T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2012-10-28T18:18:35","slug":"on-sunday-watch-josh-t-pearson-cover-gospel-songs-on-a-boat-on-a-river-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-10\/on-sunday-watch-josh-t-pearson-cover-gospel-songs-on-a-boat-on-a-river-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"On Sunday: Watch Josh T. Pearson Cover Gospel Songs on a Boat on a River in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Josh T. Pearson<\/strong> has previously mystified (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-06\/the-real-country-no-12-and-related-take-away-show\/\"><strong>and frightened<\/strong><\/a>) us, but also left us in awe of his songwriting and evocative live performances.\u00a0 His last album, <strong>The Last of the Country Gentlemen<\/strong>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2012-01\/the-year-in-music-the-best-albums-of-2011\/\"><strong>one of our favorites of 2011<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Turns out he&#8217;s got all that AND deadpan humor in spades.\u00a0 Check out his MC-like performance for <strong>Sounds from a Room<\/strong> on their boat on the <strong>Thames <\/strong>in<strong> London<\/strong>.\u00a0 The Texan&#8217;s night-time performance aboard the boat weaves together new recordings, (unintentionally) hilarious YouTube videos, and &#8220;300 year-old&#8221; gospel covers, all the while interspersed with Pearson&#8217;s hilarity (check &#8220;Katy, if you&#8217;re out there, give me a call&#8221; at 21:02).\u00a0 The meshing of his gospel cover tracks (recorded the prior night) with the nighttime film of London is eerily intriguing at times, and the swerve between humor and the seriousness and sonorities of the songs can be jarring.\u00a0 But ultimately the covers, featuring his adept guitar-playing and his own multi-tracked harmonies, are things of beauty.\u00a0 Praise be.\u00a0 If the video below doesn&#8217;t run for ya, go <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/52122480\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> and let &#8216;er rip.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/52122480?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;badge=0&amp;color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/52122480\">Josh T Pearson plays Sounds from a Room<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/artangel\">Artangel<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh T. Pearson has previously mystified (and frightened) us, but also left us in awe of his songwriting and evocative live performances.\u00a0 His last album, The Last of the Country Gentlemen, was one of our favorites of 2011.\u00a0 Turns out he&#8217;s got all that AND deadpan humor in spades.\u00a0 Check out his MC-like performance for [&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-13166","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\/13166","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=13166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}