{"id":1756,"date":"2009-07-04T06:50:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-04T13:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2009-07-04T06:50:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-04T13:50:05","slug":"sheila_jordans_getaway_place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/07\/sheila_jordans_getaway_place\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheila Jordan&#8217;s Getaway Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Jordan has a farmhouse retreat in Upstate New York where the 80-year-old<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/S.%20Jordan%202.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"S. Jordan 2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/S. Jordan 2-thumb-111x148-8351.jpg\" width=\"111\" height=\"148\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span> singer goes to develop new music. In <em>The New York Times<\/em> this week, Lisa A. Phillips wrote a charming story about Jordan and her country life. Here is a sample:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When I come up here,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I feel totally undressed musically. I feel I can try out any kind of idea I have.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn her five and a quarter acres of land atop Canady Hill, her only close neighbors have been the cows the farmer next door once kept. &#8220;I called them the bebop cows,&#8221; Ms. Jordan said. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t like ballads. If I sang them a slow tune, they left. If I sang bebop, they came running over.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the whole thing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/03\/greathomesanddestinations\/03Away.html?emc=eta1\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>. Do not miss the audio slide show embedded in the article.<br \/>\nHere is Sheila during a Austrialian tour in a tribute to one of her heroes, Billie Holiday. Mike Nock&#8217;s trio accompanies her.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NSe3Vf_UGrI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NSe3Vf_UGrI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>When the video clip ends, you will see links to other Jordan performances on <em>YouTube<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheila Jordan has a farmhouse retreat in Upstate New York where the 80-year-old singer goes to develop new music. In The New York Times this week, Lisa A. Phillips wrote a charming story about Jordan and her country life. Here is a sample: &#8220;When I come up here,&#8221; she said, &#8220;I feel totally undressed musically. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1756","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}