{"id":8145,"date":"2012-08-21T19:25:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8145"},"modified":"2012-08-27T21:19:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T20:19:36","slug":"celebrating-the-passing-of-musical-friends-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=8145","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the passing of musical friends #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Witches<\/strong> were an Oxfordshire-based band of excellence. They produced intelligent lyrics that hinted at worlds of longing, depression, love and loneliness.<\/p>\n<p>But the Witches told these stories through the medium of such delicate, intricately-woven melodies that they compelled you to listen.<\/p>\n<p>And listen you did. Listen I did. And buy their work, I did.<\/p>\n<p>Their debut CD &#8216;Heart of Stone&#8217; is a collection of marvellously-produced music.<\/p>\n<p>It nestles in my collection, surrounded by works of other artists such as The Beatles, Imogen Heap and Manic Street Preachers; names you will know.<\/p>\n<p>The shame is that you are unlikely to ever know The Witches. Settle back in a quiet place and soak this up.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8216;Someone I&#8217;ve Already Lost&#8217;, by The Witches.<br \/>\n<object width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F56961174\" \/><embed width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"https:\/\/player.soundcloud.com\/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F56961174\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" \/><\/object> <span><a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/this-reality-podcast\/12-someone-i-ve-already-lost\">12 Someone I ve Already Lost<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/soundcloud.com\/this-reality-podcast\">This Reality Podcast<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Witches were an Oxfordshire-based band of excellence. They produced intelligent lyrics that hinted at worlds of longing, depression, love and loneliness. But the Witches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}