{"id":19210,"date":"2013-11-02T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-02T14:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=19210"},"modified":"2013-11-03T06:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T14:54:26","slug":"watch-the-avett-brothers-cover-blaze-foleys-clay-pigeons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2013-11\/watch-the-avett-brothers-cover-blaze-foleys-clay-pigeons\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch The Avett Brothers Cover Blaze Foley&#8217;s &#8220;Clay Pigeons&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you watch <strong>The Avett Brothers<\/strong> performing <em><strong>Clay Pigeons<\/strong><\/em> below on <strong>SirusXM<\/strong>, you may harken back to <strong>John Prine<\/strong>.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s because<strong> John Prine<\/strong> himself covered the song.\u00a0 The song was written by <strong>Blaze Foley<\/strong> (who was a close friend of<strong> Townes Van Zandt&#8217;s <\/strong>and who died young at age 40, shot in the chest by a friend&#8217;s son), whose great songs have been covered by the likes of <strong>Prine, Lyle Lovett<\/strong> and others.\u00a0 Of particular note is <strong>Merle Haggard&#8217;s<\/strong> cover of <strong>Foley&#8217;s <em>If I Could Only Fly,<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>which is<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-08\/the-real-country-no-1\/\"> one of our all-time favorite <strong>&#8220;Real Country&#8221;<\/strong> songs<\/a>.\u00a0 Check it out below.\u00a0 Beauty.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B9JjlwtFImU\" height=\"425\" width=\"625\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you watch The Avett Brothers performing Clay Pigeons below on SirusXM, you may harken back to John Prine.\u00a0 And that&#8217;s because John Prine himself covered the song.\u00a0 The song was written by Blaze Foley (who was a close friend of Townes Van Zandt&#8217;s and who died young at age 40, shot in the chest [&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-19210","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\/19210","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=19210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}