{"id":26036,"date":"2016-05-23T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T20:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26036"},"modified":"2016-05-23T12:41:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T20:41:24","slug":"watch-john-fullbright-and-chris-thile-pay-proper-tribute-to-merle-haggard-on-prairie-home-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-05\/watch-john-fullbright-and-chris-thile-pay-proper-tribute-to-merle-haggard-on-prairie-home-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch John Fullbright and Chris Thile Pay Proper Tribute to Merle Haggard on Prairie Home Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26038\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1-650x445.jpg\" alt=\"MerleHaggard.1\" width=\"635\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1-650x445.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1-450x308.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/MerleHaggard.1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We ain&#8217;t over it yet. We had missed this beautiful duet by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnfullbrightmusic.com\/\"><strong>John Fullbright<\/strong><\/a> and <strong>Chris Thile<\/strong>\u00a0on <strong>Prairie Home Companion<\/strong> in honor of the late, great <strong>Merle Haggard.<\/strong> \u00a0Watch below as the duo affectingly cover\u00a0<strong>Haggard&#8217;s <em>Sometimes I Dream. <\/em>Fullbright&#8217;s<\/strong> vocal is its rustically-evocative self, and <strong>Thile<\/strong> skips the pyrotechnics to match the mood on mandolin (watch his merciful and touching solo at 2:35).\u00a0<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Well played all around.<\/p>\n<p>As the song goes, &#8220;There&#8217;s no magic way for me to get over you.&#8221; Indeed. <strong>RIP Merle Haggard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vZ44znKfV4I\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Sometimes I Dream<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s no magic way for me to get over you<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s not much I can say, not a thing left to do<br \/>\nSeldom I laugh and seldom I ever cry<br \/>\nBut there&#8217;s times when I drink too much and times when I lie<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I hate myself and wish I could scream<br \/>\nSometimes I give up on love but sometimes I dream<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I dream looking out through my window<br \/>\nSpeeding through the night in a long limousine<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a curse on my heart and I&#8217;ll never love again<br \/>\nForever a lonely man but sometimes I dream<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I dream looking out through my window<br \/>\nSpeeding through the night in a long limousine<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a curse on my heart and I&#8217;ll never love again<br \/>\nForever a lonely man but sometimes I dream&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We ain&#8217;t over it yet. We had missed this beautiful duet by John Fullbright and Chris Thile\u00a0on Prairie Home Companion in honor of the late, great Merle Haggard. \u00a0Watch below as the duo affectingly cover\u00a0Haggard&#8217;s Sometimes I Dream. Fullbright&#8217;s vocal is its rustically-evocative self, and Thile skips the pyrotechnics to match the mood on mandolin [&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-26036","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\/26036","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=26036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26042,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26036\/revisions\/26042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}