{"id":2468,"date":"2020-04-14T02:11:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2468"},"modified":"2020-04-14T02:11:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T02:11:08","slug":"shot-through-the-heart-jennifer-warnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=2468","title":{"rendered":"Shot Through the Heart – Jennifer Warnes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This Jennifer Warnes album influenced me in two ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, her song “I Know a Heartache When I See One” was my gateway to country music in the early 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around 1980, I grew bored with what I was hearing on mainstream rock stations. “Heartache,” which crossed the two genres, got me listening to country stations, and I continued to do so for the next several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Country music had long appealed to me. I recall songs from my childhood such as Billy Grammer’s “Gotta Travel On” and “He’ll Have to Go” by Jim Reeves. And after I discovered Top 40 radio, I had enjoyed crossover hits such as Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man” and Charlie Rich’s “Behind Closed Doors.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My 1980s foray into popular country music greatly expanded my knowledge of the genre. Then, around 1986, I found programs on Los Angeles-area radio stations KPFK and KCRW that took me in several different directions, including contemporary acoustic music, old-time country, bluegrass, “world music,” Celtic and what is now known as Americana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the inclusion of her gorgeous, a cappella rendition of “Hard Times Come Again No More” on the album, Warnes also rekindled my appreciation of the music of Stephen Foster. It motivated me to find a book of Foster’s songs, which in turn provided a wellspring of inspiration for my own music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Favorite tracks: I Know a Heartache When I See One, Hard Times Come Again No More, You Remember Me, Frankie in the Rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This Jennifer Warnes album influenced me in two ways. First, her song “I Know a Heartache When I See One” was my gateway to country music in the early 1980s. Around 1980, I grew bored with what I was hearing on mainstream rock stations. “Heartache,” which crossed the two genres, got me listening to country … Continue reading “Shot Through the Heart – Jennifer Warnes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorites","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}