{"id":290,"date":"2008-05-13T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2008-05-13T16:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T16:54:00","slug":"new-yorksongwriting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/new-yorksongwriting-2\/","title":{"rendered":"New York\/Songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/folkbrothers.htm\"target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/journal\/folkbrothers.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmassengill.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">David Massengill <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jackhardy.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">Jack Hardy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Did some pictures yesterday for songwriters Jack Hardy and David Massengill who are doing a number of gigs together as the Folk Brothers (with a smirk). Jack has sometimes used an ancient typewriter as a symbol of his attitude toward writing songs&#8211;a craft rooted in old traditions, resistant to, though not situated wholly outside of, the modern world. I think the typewriters look a little like accordions in the photo.<\/p>\n<p>David and Jack are two of the first people I met when I came to New York in 1977. David performs primarily on the dulcimer as unique accompaniment for his mostly narrative songs. He is, perhaps, best known for <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">On the road to Fairfax County<\/span>, which has been been recored by The Roches and Joan Baez. But that&#8217;s just the place to get started on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmassengill.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">David&#8217;s rich and varied collection of songs<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Massengill and Jack Hardy Did some pictures yesterday for songwriters Jack Hardy and David Massengill who are doing a number of gigs together as the Folk Brothers (with a smirk). Jack has sometimes used an ancient typewriter as a symbol of his attitude toward writing songs&#8211;a craft rooted in old traditions, resistant to, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brianrose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}