{"id":22642,"date":"2014-10-31T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=22642"},"modified":"2014-10-31T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T23:35:04","slug":"listen-to-new-damien-rice-song-the-greatest-bastard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-10\/listen-to-new-damien-rice-song-the-greatest-bastard\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to New Damien Rice Song &#8220;The Greatest Bastard&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p027pmkc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-22643\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p027pmkc.jpg\" alt=\"p027pmkc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p027pmkc.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p027pmkc-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/p027pmkc-450x253.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.damienrice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Damien Rice<\/strong><\/a> will release his long-awaited, <strong>Rick Rubin<\/strong>-produced album,\u00a0 <strong><em>My Favourite Faded Fantasy, <\/em><\/strong>in a couple weeks.\u00a0 As a further preview,<strong> Rice<\/strong> has now released a great song off the new album entitled <em><strong>The Greatest Bastard<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 We love this song, having first heard <strong>Rice<\/strong> deliver a heartfelt, mesmerizing performance (see above) of it a few weeks ago on <strong>Later with Jools Holland<\/strong> (sure, we&#8217;d show you the performance, but the bilious<strong> BBC<\/strong> is unwilling to allow US citizens to view it on the web).\u00a0 You can at least hear the studio version below, embellished with strings.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a great one that bodes incredibly well for the new album.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/174253074&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damien Rice will release his long-awaited, Rick Rubin-produced album,\u00a0 My Favourite Faded Fantasy, in a couple weeks.\u00a0 As a further preview, Rice has now released a great song off the new album entitled The Greatest Bastard.\u00a0 We love this song, having first heard Rice deliver a heartfelt, mesmerizing performance (see above) of it a few [&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-22642","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\/22642","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=22642"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22646,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22642\/revisions\/22646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}