{"id":1579,"date":"2015-12-20T18:34:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1579"},"modified":"2015-12-20T18:34:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:34:36","slug":"give-the-gift-of-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2015\/12\/20\/give-the-gift-of-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Give the Gift of Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a perfect segue into my last installment of <strong><em>Billy&#8217;s Holiday Gift Giving Suggestions<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 This time, we&#8217;re focusing on the gift of music.\u00a0 What could be better than celebrating the holidays with <strong>Darlene Love<\/strong>?\u00a0 The perennial <strong>David Letterman <\/strong>favorite has released her first solo CD in years, ironically titled, <strong><em>Introducing Darlene Love<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 In case this is your first exposure to the powerhouse vocalist, prepare to have your socks blown off.\u00a0 With songs written by <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>, <strong>Joan Jett<\/strong>, <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>, and more, this is a collection not to be missed.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like more than your socks to be blown, check out the new CD from the singing string quartet, <strong><em>Well-Strung<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 These boys are a few of my favorite things, and they have released a collection of pop\/classical combos called <strong><em>POPssicle<\/em><\/strong> &#8211; get it?\u00a0 Pop and classical.\u00a0 Oh, they&#8217;re not only sexy and talented &#8211; they&#8217;re clever!\u00a0 And did I mention they&#8217;re sexy?\u00a0 You can buy their CD and find out when you can see them in person at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.Well-Strung.com\" target=\"filth\">Well-Strung.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a perfect segue into my last installment of Billy&#8217;s Holiday Gift Giving Suggestions.\u00a0 This time, we&#8217;re focusing on the gift of music.\u00a0 What could be better than celebrating the holidays with Darlene Love?\u00a0 The perennial David Letterman favorite has released her first solo CD in years, ironically titled, Introducing Darlene Love.\u00a0 In case this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1580,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579\/revisions\/1580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}