{"id":444,"date":"2011-07-14T12:43:44","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T19:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-06-23T11:16:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T18:16:01","slug":"jeffrey-foucault-and-mark-erelli-tom-merritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/?p=444","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Foucault and Mark Erelli &#8211; Tom Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/seven-curses.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/seven-curses.jpg 240w, https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/seven-curses-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-444-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/03-Tom-Merritt-Richard-Buckner-Edgar-Lee-Masters1.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/03-Tom-Merritt-Richard-Buckner-Edgar-Lee-Masters1.mp3\">https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/03-Tom-Merritt-Richard-Buckner-Edgar-Lee-Masters1.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Jeffrey Foucault and Mark Erelli &#8211; Tom Merritt<\/p>\n<p>Lately a fascination for all things cowboy has consumed me. Call it the 25 year curse, if you will. That being time spent in Arizona. Add to that another 8 years or so in Houston, Texas and you might understand how a certain amount of Southwestern culture might stick to a fellow.<\/p>\n<p>Country music always rubbed me the wrong way. At least, as promoted on the air ways these last 50 years or so. Folk music and even blue grass holds a larger appeal because it just is not so pretentious. I call it down home music.<\/p>\n<p>The cut here, from the 2010 album entitled: <a title=\"Seven Curses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Seven-Curses-Jeffrey-Foucault\/dp\/B0035WAS0C\/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1310672509&amp;sr=1-4\"><strong>Seven Curses<\/strong><\/a> was written by Richard Buckner and Edgar Lee Masters and sung here quite well by Jeffrey Foucault, a folk singer from Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Foucault and Mark Erelli &#8211; Tom Merritt Lately a fascination for all things cowboy has consumed me. Call it the 25 year curse, if you will. That being time spent in Arizona. Add to that another 8 years or so in Houston, Texas and you might understand how a certain amount of Southwestern culture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[42,104,98],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-alternative-music","tag-cowboy","tag-indie-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lesstoprofess.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}