{"id":133,"date":"2009-06-23T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themo.org\/nwp\/?p=133"},"modified":"2009-08-20T17:42:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:42:12","slug":"rusted-root-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Rusted Root"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rusted Root
\n6\/13\/2009
\nEvent Rating: \u2605\u2605\u00bd\u2606\u2606<\/span>
\nVenue: Revolution Live – Fort Lauderdale, FL
\nPresented by: Live Nation<\/p>\n

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Ok, some may not fully agree on the categorization of \u201cWorld Music\u201c\u2026 well, although there may be reasons that may seem valid otherwise, when you draw so many influences from different styles of music around the world that are so distinctively strong\u2026 that to me is world music.<\/p>\n

I can honestly\u00a0say that everybody in this band\u00a0has great rhythm. Usually most bands will rely on the drummer to keep a good rhythm. But all members showed great individual rhythm. Liz, for example rocked the percussion while singing. I made it a point to follow the beats she was doing, and they were really impeccable.\"pict2281\"<\/p>\n

This show started really good\u2026 for the first few songs everyone was into it. You looked at the crowd and the people were either bobbing heads or jumping up and down to the drum and beat. They even threw in a cover medley starting with \u201cSuperstition\u201d – Stevie Wonder going all the way to Jimi Hendrix\u2019s version of \u201cAll Along the Watchtower\u201d and back to Wonder. After the first few songs for about an\u00a0hour\u00a0it seemed like the crowd was sleeping as they played some of their not too\u00a0active, almost (to the crowd)\u00a0\u201cboring\u201d songs. I guess if\u00a01 or 2\u00a0of their more popular songs were mixed in, the audience would have probably stayed a little more lively during that time.<\/p>\n

\u2026But, just like a math cosine it started to pick up after their cover of Elvis\u2019 \u201cSuspicious Minds\u201d. The people started up again with the head bobbing and tribal dancing. Of course at the very end they gave the crowd the songs they wanted, the ones they kept screaming for: \u201cBlue Diamonds\u201d, \u201cEcstasy\u201d, and finally \u201cSend Me On My Way\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"pict2285\"Their onstage presence is very relaxed and at home. Actually it\u2019s almost like being with them while they \u201cjam\u201d in the studio. They talk to each other, smile, laugh, improvise and seem to enjoy doing so. For the most part the songs are well written and presented, lyrically and musically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rusted Root
\n6\/13\/2009
\nEvent Rating: \u2605\u2605\u00bd\u2606\u2606
\nVenue: Revolution Live – Fort Lauderdale, FL
\nPresented by: Live Nation<\/p>\n

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Ok, some may not fully agree on the categorization of \u201cWorld Music\u201c\u2026 well, although there may be reasons that may seem valid otherwise, when you draw so many influences from different styles of music around the world that are so distinctively strong\u2026 that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[13,12,15,17,16,14,10,496,48,50,49,11,6,7,18,9,8,145,119,45],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-live-world-music","tag-blue-diamonds","tag-ecstasy","tag-elvis","tag-fl","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-jimi-hemdrix","tag-live-nation","tag-live-world-music","tag-music","tag-music-reviews","tag-review","tag-revolution-live","tag-rusted-root","tag-send-me-on-my-way","tag-stevie-wonder","tag-themo","tag-themoorg","tag-www-livenation-com","tag-www-rustedroot-com","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themo.org\/nwp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}