{"id":3640,"date":"2012-05-15T00:10:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T07:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2012-05-14T23:05:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T06:05:42","slug":"a-rifftides-extra-wagon-wheels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2012\/05\/a-rifftides-extra-wagon-wheels\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rifftides Extra: Wagon Wheels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rollins-10-gallon-hat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3641\" title=\"Rollins, 10-gallon hat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Rollins-10-gallon-hat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a>I met a grown man the other day who came right out and admitted that he had never heard Sonny Rollins play \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wagon Wheels.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We were in public and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to embarrass him, so I took the only civilized option that sprang to mind. I promised him that if I could find it on the web, I would post the track for him and anyone else similarly deprived. Here it is, with Ray Brown on bass and Shelly Manne on drums, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Way-Out-West-Sonny-Rollins\/dp\/B000000YIQ\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;tag=rifftidougram-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Way Out West<\/a> (1957), a basic repertoire item if ever there was one.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ST_MvaONLk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wagon Wheels\u00e2\u20ac\u009d debuted in the Ziegield Follies in 1934. Among several successful recordings over the years were those by\u00e2\u20ac\u201dstrange though it may seem\u00e2\u20ac\u201dJimmy Lunceford, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WsuPH4YCvDU\" target=\"_blank\">Tommy Dorsey<\/a> with strings. It was a hit for Spade Cooley and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=X4Z94MPvRRY\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Robeson<\/a>, too, but the record permanently installed for a decade in the jukeboxes of my hometown was by The Sons of the Pioneers. You may find it a contrast to the Rollins version. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVJYvq2A0YA\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met a grown man the other day who came right out and admitted that he had never heard Sonny Rollins play \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Wagon Wheels.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d We were in public and I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to embarrass him, so I took the only civilized option that sprang to mind. I promised him that if I could find it [&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-3640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","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=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}