{"id":25091,"date":"2015-11-12T22:40:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T06:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25091"},"modified":"2015-11-13T06:38:42","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T14:38:42","slug":"the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-11\/the-great-songs-a-girl-called-johnny-by-the-waterboys\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Songs:  &#8220;A Girl Called Johnny&#8221; by the Waterboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s <strong>Waterboys<\/strong> are among the greatest rock bands to come out of the Isles. \u00a0You could point to a thousand confirming facets, but this is the one that&#8217;s struck us when we went down the rabbit hole:\u00a0<em><strong>A Girl Called Johnny<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/em>off of their eponymous album debut in\u00a01983 (before they would blow up with &#8217;84&#8217;s <em><strong>Pagan Place<\/strong><\/em> and &#8217;85&#8217;s<em><strong> This Is The Sea\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(now there&#8217;s a startlingly good three years and album trio). \u00a0<em><strong>A Girl Called Johnny<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0was a tribute, as is much of post-1974 music, to <strong>Patti Smith<\/strong>, and a seminal rocker of extraordinary strength. \u00a0This one&#8217;s got both <strong>Mike Scott<\/strong> and <strong>Karl Wallinger<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>World Party<\/strong>, on piano). \u00a0Simply slaughtering while strutting. \u00a0Just like Patti.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vL5L5Y61Jyk\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland&#8217;s Waterboys are among the greatest rock bands to come out of the Isles. \u00a0You could point to a thousand confirming facets, but this is the one that&#8217;s struck us when we went down the rabbit hole:\u00a0A Girl Called Johnny,\u00a0off of their eponymous album debut in\u00a01983 (before they would blow up with &#8217;84&#8217;s Pagan Place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25091","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\/25091","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=25091"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25095,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25091\/revisions\/25095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}