{"id":22,"date":"2006-03-29T17:57:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-29T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=22"},"modified":"2006-03-29T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-29T21:57:14","slug":"wednesday-random-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday random letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just thought of this: sort your music alphabetically by the first letter of the artist. Now choose one letter to take to your desert island. Without much thought, I vote, from my collection, for &#8220;R&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Rachmaninov, Sergei<\/li>\n<li>Randolph, Robert &amp; the Family Band<\/li>\n<li>RatDog<\/li>\n<li>Ravel, Maurice<\/li>\n<li>Richard Burnett, piano (on original instruments)<\/li>\n<li>Richard Thompson<\/li>\n<li>Robert Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Robert Schumann<\/li>\n<li>Robin Canter, oboe, with the London Baroque (on original instruments<\/li>\n<li>Roger McGuinn<\/li>\n<li>Rolling Stones<\/li>\n<li>Roosevelt Sykes<\/li>\n<li>Rory Gallagher<\/li>\n<li>Roxy Music<\/li>\n<li>Rudolf Serkin<\/li>\n<li>Rufus Wainwright<\/li>\n<li>Ry Cooder<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a couple of these I could well do without, and much from elsewhere that I miss. Then I think of B<\/p>\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>B. B. King<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">BBC<\/span> Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"caps\">BBC<\/span> Symphony Orchestra under Sir Adrian Boult<\/li>\n<li>Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra under Georg Singer<\/li>\n<li>Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra under Jonel Perlea<\/li>\n<li>Be Good Tanyas<\/li>\n<li>Beethoven<\/li>\n<li>Bernd Glemser<\/li>\n<li>Bert Jansch<\/li>\n<li>Bert Jansch And John Renbourn<\/li>\n<li>Bertha &#8216;Chippie&#8217; Hill<\/li>\n<li>Big Jack Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Big Jack Johnson With Kim Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Big Sandy And The Fly-Rite trio<\/li>\n<li>Bill Evans<\/li>\n<li>Bill Wyman&#8217;s Rhythm Kings<\/li>\n<li>Billie Holiday With Teddy Wilson<\/li>\n<li>Billy Joe Shaver<\/li>\n<li>Blind Boys of Alabama, The<\/li>\n<li>Blind Faith<\/li>\n<li>Blind Willie Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Blind Willie McTell<\/li>\n<li>Bob Dylan<\/li>\n<li>Bob Marley &amp; The Wailers<\/li>\n<li>Boz Scaggs<\/li>\n<li>Brownie McGhee And Sonny Terry<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Springsteen<\/li>\n<li>Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young<\/li>\n<li>Bruch<\/li>\n<li>Buck Owens \/ Emmylou Harris<\/li>\n<li>Buffalo Springfield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>and realise that my previous choice was ludicrous. But it&#8217;s a silly, cheering game.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just thought of this: sort your music alphabetically by the first letter of the artist. Now choose one letter to take to your desert island. Without much thought, I vote, from my collection, for &#8220;R&#8221; Rachmaninov, Sergei Randolph, Robert &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=22\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}