{"id":15805,"date":"2013-03-20T10:52:17","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=15805"},"modified":"2013-03-20T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T18:56:15","slug":"watch-the-avett-brothers-covertribute-to-jason-molina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-03\/watch-the-avett-brothers-covertribute-to-jason-molina\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Avett Brothers&#8217; Cover\/Tribute to Jason Molina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, much has been rightly said and written regarding <strong>Jason Molina&#8217;s passing<\/strong> this past Saturday at the too-young age of 39.\u00a0 Adding to those tributes is the <strong>The Avett Brothers&#8217;<\/strong> appropriately-somber cover below of <strong>Molina&#8217;s<\/strong> song <em><strong>Hammer Down<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 &#8220;Hammer down, heaven bound.&#8221;\u00a0 <strong>RIP Jason<\/strong>. If you want to read\/listen to more of Molina&#8217;s songs and effect, <strong>Drowned In Sound<\/strong> has two of the better pieces to start with <a href=\"http:\/\/drownedinsound.com\/in_depth\/4146191-jason-molina--farewell-transmission\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/drownedinsound.com\/in_depth\/4132494-where-to-start-with-jason-molina-songs--ohia-and-magnolia-electric-co\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The song&#8217;s telling lyrics are below the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/h0V9vmtJyN0\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hammer Down<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hammer down, heaven bound<br \/>\nHammer down, heaven bound<\/p>\n<p>I saw the light<br \/>\nOn the old gray town<br \/>\nSometimes I forget that I&#8217;ve always been sick<br \/>\nAnd I don&#8217;t have the will to keep fighting<\/p>\n<p>Hammer down, heaven bound<br \/>\nHammer down, heaven bound<\/p>\n<p>Hammer down, heaven bound<br \/>\nHammer down, heaven bound<\/p>\n<p>When its been my ghost and the empty road<br \/>\nI think the stars are just the neon lights<br \/>\nShining through the dance floor<br \/>\nShining through the dance floor<br \/>\nOf heaven on a Saturday night<br \/>\nAnd I saw the light<br \/>\nI saw the light<\/p>\n<p>Hammer down, heaven bound<br \/>\nHammer down, heaven bound&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent days, much has been rightly said and written regarding Jason Molina&#8217;s passing this past Saturday at the too-young age of 39.\u00a0 Adding to those tributes is the The Avett Brothers&#8217; appropriately-somber cover below of Molina&#8217;s song Hammer Down.\u00a0 &#8220;Hammer down, heaven bound.&#8221;\u00a0 RIP Jason. If you want to read\/listen to more of Molina&#8217;s [&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-15805","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\/15805","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=15805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}