{"id":8140,"date":"2011-11-18T16:35:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2011-11-18T16:35:01","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T16:35:01","slug":"blind-pilot-on-kcrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2011-11\/blind-pilot-on-kcrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Pilot on KCRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-8141\" title=\"Blind-Pilot1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blind-Pilot1-650x433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"635\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blind-Pilot1-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blind-Pilot1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Blind-Pilot1-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We regretted having to miss Portland band,<strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/blindpilotmusic.com\/\">Blind Pilot<\/a><\/strong>, when they recently played here.\u00a0 But then again, we got to see the the <strong>Woods, Kurt Vile, the Felice Brothers, M. Ward<\/strong> and <strong>Bright Eyes<\/strong>.\u00a0 For free.\u00a0 In Golden Gate Park.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a tradeoff we&#8217;re willing to accept.<\/p>\n<p>We really would have liked, however, to have caught the NPR-favored<strong> Blind Pilot<\/strong> live in our little town.\u00a0 As you can see below, the band delivers stirring melodies with harmonious vocals, and all with clear-eyed vision of its musical path.\u00a0 To get a flavor, check out the band&#8217;s performance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/music\/programs\/mb\/mb111117blind_pilot\"><strong>KCRW<\/strong><\/a> yesterday of <em><strong>Keep You Right <\/strong><\/em>(you can download the studio version and buy their music at <a href=\"http:\/\/blindpilotmusic.com\/\"><strong>Blind Pilot&#8217;s site<\/strong><\/a>) off of its recently-released and critically-acclaimed album, &#8220;<strong>We Are The Tide.<\/strong>&#8221;\u00a0 The band has augmented their lineup and sound on the new album, and it&#8217;s a comely combo.\u00a0 Musically, they fall somewhere in the spectrum between updated-Fleetwood Mac and The Head and the Heart\/Doe Bay Festival-singalong genre.\u00a0 Their flight is directly on target into our world.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blind Pilot performing &quot;Keep You Right&quot; on KCRW\" width=\"635\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PxyjmXtJtaM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We regretted having to miss Portland band, Blind Pilot, when they recently played here.\u00a0 But then again, we got to see the the Woods, Kurt Vile, the Felice Brothers, M. Ward and Bright Eyes.\u00a0 For free.\u00a0 In Golden Gate Park.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a tradeoff we&#8217;re willing to accept. We really would have liked, however, to have [&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-8140","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\/8140","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=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}