{"id":25167,"date":"2015-12-02T14:44:41","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=25167"},"modified":"2015-12-02T17:10:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T01:10:37","slug":"whats-new-elvis-presley-watch-tom-jones-cover-gillian-welchs-great-elvis-presley-blues-on-conan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-12\/whats-new-elvis-presley-watch-tom-jones-cover-gillian-welchs-great-elvis-presley-blues-on-conan\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New Elvis Presley?  Watch Tom Jones Cover Gillian Welch&#8217;s Great &#8220;Elvis Presley Blues&#8221; on Conan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-25170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley.jpg\" alt=\"elvis-presley\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/elvis-presley-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Been a long, long time since ma regularly dialed up <em><strong>This Is Tom Jones<\/strong><\/em> on the idiot-box and repeatedly dropped the needle on <em><strong>Delilah<\/strong><\/em> and her vinyl paramours. \u00a0After all the water and hip-thrusts under the bridge, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomjones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Jones<\/a><\/strong> still shows up intermittently (e.g., the 2012\u00a0<strong>Ethan Johns<\/strong>-produced album<em><strong> Spirit In The Room<\/strong><\/em>) to deliver the vocal goods that have stood the test of time. \u00a0Last night <strong>Jones<\/strong> appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/teamcoco.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Conan<\/strong> <\/a>and gave a magnificently-reserved reading of <strong>Gillian Welch&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0evocative homage, <em><strong>Elvis Presley Blues<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0It was a 75-year old performer paying proper tribute to the iconic <strong>Presley<\/strong>, who would have turned 85 years old a month from now. \u00a0The song is off of <strong>Jones&#8217;<\/strong> recently released, <strong>Johns-<\/strong>produced <em><strong>Long Lost Suitcase<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0Jones has great taste in songwriters. \u00a0Bravo Sir!<\/p>\n<p>At bottom, check out <strong>Welch<\/strong> and<strong> Dave Rawlings<\/strong> performing her song for the <strong>BBC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And he shook it like a hurricane<br \/>\nHe shook it like to make it break<br \/>\nAnd he shook it like a holy roller, baby<br \/>\nWith his soul at stake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indeed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/teamcoco.com\/embed\/v\/92100#playlist=x;eyJ0eXBlIjoidGFnIiwiaWQiOjR9\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FM8ui2ByUI\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a long, long time since ma regularly dialed up This Is Tom Jones on the idiot-box and repeatedly dropped the needle on Delilah and her vinyl paramours. \u00a0After all the water and hip-thrusts under the bridge, Tom Jones still shows up intermittently (e.g., the 2012\u00a0Ethan Johns-produced album Spirit In The Room) to deliver the [&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-25167","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\/25167","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=25167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25173,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25167\/revisions\/25173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}