{"id":702,"date":"2007-05-22T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2007\/05\/whamo\/"},"modified":"2007-05-22T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-22T07:00:00","slug":"whamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2007\/05\/whamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wham-O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ec1.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51u9hnDZsxL._AA240_.jpg\"  align=\"left\" alt=\"\">Finally, a blues guitarist with the soul of a trombonist. Putting a junkheap like &#8220;Peculiar Hop&#8221; as the lead track takes a seriously loose screw, covering Dylan without the lyrics ups the ante (&#8220;Rainy Day #12 &#038; 35&#8221;), but it&#8217;s the rare guitar hero who literalizes the mood of the country (&#8220;Dig Myself a Hole&#8221;) after scrawling one of the better lines about Los Angeles (&#8220;A thousand dreams trapped in a silent scream&#8230;&#8221;). A critic&#8217;s reward for plowing through stacks of CDs.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mc-records.com\" target=\"_blank\">MC Records<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/rickholmstrom\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Holmstrom on MySpace<\/A>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickholmstrom.com\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Holmstrom<\/A><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, a blues guitarist with the soul of a trombonist. Putting a junkheap like &#8220;Peculiar Hop&#8221; as the lead track takes a seriously loose screw, covering Dylan without the lyrics ups the ante (&#8220;Rainy Day #12 &#038; 35&#8221;), but it&#8217;s the rare guitar hero who literalizes the mood of the country (&#8220;Dig Myself a Hole&#8221;) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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-702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}