{"id":690,"date":"2005-08-17T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-18T00:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2005-08-17T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2005-08-18T00:24:48","slug":"vassar-clements-1928-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/vassar-clements-1928-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Vassar Clements (1928 &#8211; 2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard <a href=\"http:\/\/vassarclements.com\/\">Vassar Clements<\/a> back in the 60s when I was in high school. Always the odd boy, I was not digging the sweet soul music called &#8220;beach music&#8221; and the rock and roll available was mostly from the UK. But I was happy to be one of the few long haired or gypsy dressed kids at a serious bluegrass concert. I recall fondly how Vassar Clements was early to play with John Hartford and then with the Earl Scruggs Review and then soon after on the Nitty Gritty Dirtband&#8217;s Circle LPs.<br \/>\nOver time I heard Vassar, recorded, in various surprising and excellent combos playing with various rockers and jazz players.<br \/>\nEven the play list on the one LP of his I own, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3.com\/albums\/104421\/reviews.html\">Vassar Clements (on Mercury in 1975),<\/a> shows his diverse friends and interests &#8212; Charlie Daniels, Marty Stewart, John McEuen, John Hartford and others. Sadly this, one of the best instrumental LPs I own, has never been released on CD and is out of print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first heard Vassar Clements back in the 60s when I was in high school. Always the odd boy, I was not digging the sweet soul music called &#8220;beach music&#8221; and the rock and roll available was mostly from the UK. But I was happy to be one of the few long haired or gypsy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}