{"id":79,"date":"2014-01-07T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2014-01-11T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-11T07:57:20","slug":"walt-conklin-half-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/?p=79","title":{"rendered":"Walt Conklin, &#8220;Half A Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/conklin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/conklin.jpg\" alt=\"conklin\" width=\"290\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-79-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Walt-Conklin-Half-A-Man.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Walt-Conklin-Half-A-Man.mp3\">https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Walt-Conklin-Half-A-Man.mp3<\/a><\/audio><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/\/?attachment_id=163\" title=\"Walt Conklin - Half A Man\">right click to download<\/a><br \/>\nRecent finds include a nice 45 on MGM of a dude named Walt Conklin (no, I&#8217;ve never heard of him either) doing a great version of the Willie Nelson classic &#8220;Half A Man&#8221;.  Willie&#8217;s original on Liberty was a slow waltz with a full, lush string arrangement, but ol&#8217; Walt reworked it here as an almost shuffle.  He sings it high &#038; hard with lusty vibrato, ala Johnny Bush or Curtis Potter.  The chord changes are altered a little, to make it work better when played this way.  I love it, I think it&#8217;s a great version of the tune, and I&#8217;ve been playing it with this arrangement at my Lucky Horseshoe shows lately.  The overwrought Glen Campbell-ish A-side may not be my cup of tea, but the keen reworking of &#8220;Half A Man&#8221; makes this 45 a real keeper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>right click to download Recent finds include a nice 45 on MGM of a dude named Walt Conklin (no, I&#8217;ve never heard of him either) doing a great version of the Willie Nelson classic &#8220;Half A Man&#8221;. Willie&#8217;s original on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/?p=79\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tomsrecordroom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomarmstrongmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}