{"id":21912,"date":"2019-05-30T10:34:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T15:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smaggi.us-east-1.derr.space\/?p=21912"},"modified":"2019-06-26T22:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T03:03:44","slug":"rip-leon-redbone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/05\/30\/rip-leon-redbone\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP: Leon Redbone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The enigmatic singer with the panama hat, deep voice and thing for really old songs is gone. The media covered is <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/05\/30\/728315252\/leon-redbone-an-unusual-singer-from-a-bygone-era-has-died?utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=npr&amp;utm_term=nprnews&amp;utm_content=20190530\">real identity<\/a><\/span><\/strong> enough and career just fine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I would prefer to write about all the joy he brought me as a kid and today as an adult in my love for musical acts which are also personas, e.g. The Aquabats as a superhero team on stage or Southern Culture on the Skids as a trio of backwoods hillbillies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While I was growing up, Leon was more often seen in commercials like this memorable one below:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/phiUz_PWyMc\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I did see him on\u00a0<em>The Tonight Show\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>SNL<\/em>. What he did was intriguing despite my stronger bias for popular Rock and Pop tunes at the time. Leon just had this fascinating charisma and sincerity behind those &#8220;ancient&#8221; tunes he performed on stage with just his voice and a guitar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In adulthood, I grew to appreciate his body of covers as a tribute to the rich body of Americana we&#8217;ve set aside.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Thanks Leon Redbone for what you did. You brought back some musical history without it being disposable kitsch or ironic. Let&#8217;s hope somebody at PledgeMusic puts together a proper, complete boxed set of your catalog with extras.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The enigmatic singer with the panama hat, deep voice and thing for really old songs is gone. The media covered is real identity enough and career just fine. I would prefer to write about all the joy he brought me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/2019\/05\/30\/rip-leon-redbone\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[206,457,563,154,564],"class_list":["post-21912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-americana","tag-celebrity-obituary","tag-ragtime","tag-seventies","tag-tin-pan-alley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22037,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21912\/revisions\/22037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggipicayune.derr.io\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}