{"id":2038,"date":"2011-05-06T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=2038"},"modified":"2011-05-06T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T18:45:53","slug":"song-i-am-a-poor-wayfaring-stranger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2011\/05\/06\/song-i-am-a-poor-wayfaring-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"Song:  I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another tune from the Berea Archive:\u00a0 &#8220;I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a well-known negro or Appalachian spiritual from the late 1700&#8217;s, made famous in modern times by Burl Ives.\u00a0 The Berea recording is from the Sacred Harp shape note book, sung by the Berea shape note singers.<\/p>\n<p>I just love these evocative lyrics and the sad minor melody.\u00a0 I wonder how many people have sung this from places of deep trouble over the centuries?<\/p>\n<p>After the Berea recording, I include a rough guide track that I recorded this afternoon.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just me an an acoustic guitar, playing and singing into a microphone.\u00a0 It&#8217;s awfully rough, but I kind of like it as a stand-alone track, even though my vocals need work.\u00a0 Hopefully I can do a fuller arrangement soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another tune from the Berea Archive:\u00a0 &#8220;I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger.&#8221;\u00a0 This is a well-known negro or Appalachian spiritual from the late 1700&#8217;s, made famous in modern times by Burl Ives.\u00a0 The Berea recording is from the Sacred Harp shape note book, sung by the Berea shape note singers. I just love these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography-and-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-wS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}