{"id":198,"date":"2008-04-05T19:11:46","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=198"},"modified":"2010-07-24T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T01:47:24","slug":"198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=198","title":{"rendered":"Spider John Koerner at the UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The photographic image\u2026 a message without a code.&#8221; \u2014 Roland Barthes<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Last week\u00a0McKim Stropes phoned to inform me that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwt.net\/~koerner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Spider John Koerner<\/a> would perform at the UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall. Memories flooded my mind. Back in the mid sixties some\u00a0part of my awakening as a young man occurred at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onmilwaukee.com\/buzz\/articles\/avantgarde.html\" target=\"_blank\">Avant Garde<\/a> listening to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5cVmPfw97b8\" target=\"_blank\">Blues, Rags and Hollers<\/a>&#8221; from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=doJIkJMXiy4&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\">Spider John<\/a>, Dave Ray and Tony Glover. Last evening John took me and others back to those days; and even much further back; as he carries hundreds of years of folk-blues tradition in his spirit; delivering it, pure, through his 12 string guitar and finely tuned, folk, vocal cords \u2014 his right foot the perfect metronome.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/koerner\" target=\"_blank\">See more photographs from the concert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click image for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"l1002748.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/l1002748.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/l1002748.jpg\" alt=\"l1002748.jpg\" width=\"666\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The photographic image\u2026 a message without a code.&#8221; \u2014 Roland Barthes Last week\u00a0McKim Stropes phoned to inform me that\u00a0Spider John Koerner would perform at the UWM Fine Arts Recital Hall. Memories flooded my mind. Back in the mid sixties some\u00a0part of my awakening as a young man occurred at the\u00a0Avant Garde listening to &#8220;Blues, Rags [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,32,19,57,34,17,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-events","category-hand-made","category-music","category-people","category-photography","category-travel","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3159,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/3159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}