{"id":1143,"date":"2009-02-26T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/scott-walker-icon-of-obscurity.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:07:00","slug":"scott-walker-icon-of-obscurity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2009\/02\/scott-walker-icon-of-obscurity.html","title":{"rendered":"Scott Walker: Icon of Obscurity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfCyhLvKI\/AAAAAAAAAHo\/mWaf9pTOniE\/s1600-h\/walker4.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfCyhLvKI\/AAAAAAAAAHo\/mWaf9pTOniE\/s320\/walker4.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfC28kxmI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/rl3zBp2AKIc\/s1600-h\/walker3.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfC28kxmI\/AAAAAAAAAHg\/rl3zBp2AKIc\/s320\/walker3.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfCwkS4mI\/AAAAAAAAAHY\/9XoztZCiPzI\/s1600-h\/walker2.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfCwkS4mI\/AAAAAAAAAHY\/9XoztZCiPzI\/s320\/walker2.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfCpK3FnI\/AAAAAAAAAHQ\/xqfc0AWlCp0\/s1600-h\/walker1.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/SabfCpK3FnI\/AAAAAAAAAHQ\/xqfc0AWlCp0\/s320\/walker1.jpeg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>NOW HERE is a guy who made <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nick_Drake\">nick drake<\/a> look gregarious.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>back in the 60s, scott walker was part of british boy band the walker brothers &#8212; the most popular group, in their day, you&#8217;ve never heard of. but it&#8217;s the moody, heavily orchestrated records he made after leaving the trio that made him a huge influence on everyone from david bowie to brian eno to laurie anderson and jarvis cocker. my story, which includes conversations with some of those, <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/music_blog\/2009\/02\/scott-walker-mu.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>walker&#8217;s music is a bit static for me &#8212; tho i admire the nerve of a guy who writes a (dead serious) song about a bergman movie. scott had the best 60s style of any rocker this side of john lennon.\u00a0lots of great shots of him brooding behind shades and a scarf &#8212; this would be my sartorial signature year-round if i could pull it off &#8212; taken over the years by the london-to-LA photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriswalterphotography.com\/\">chris walter<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>any scott fans out there?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photofeatures.com\/scottwalker\/index.html\">Chris Walter<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOW HERE is a guy who made nick drake look gregarious.\u00a0 back in the 60s, scott walker was part of british boy band the walker brothers &#8212; the most popular group, in their day, you&#8217;ve never heard of. but it&#8217;s the moody, heavily orchestrated records he made after leaving the trio that made him a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[163,88,38,273],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-60s","7":"category-brit-culture","8":"category-rock-music","9":"category-scott-walker","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}