{"id":391,"date":"2008-10-10T13:16:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=391"},"modified":"2008-10-10T13:25:20","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:25:20","slug":"laura-vecchione-and-chris-trapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Laura Vecchione and Chris Trapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More live music: again at the Living Room last night for <a href=\"http:\/\/lauravmusic.com\/\">Laura Vecchione<\/a>&#8216;s CD release show.  Laura&#8217;s first CD made my &#8220;Best of 2006&#8221; list, and now she&#8217;s touring the country <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/2929035259\/\" title=\"Laura Vecchione, Living Room, 9 Oct 2008 by jsobel, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3277\/2929035259_ac34397c5f_o.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"188\" alt=\"Laura Vecchione, Living Room, 9 Oct 2008\" style=\"float:left;margin:10px;border:1px solid gray\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n and shopping a <a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/lauravecchione2\">brand new disc<\/a> which, if last night&#8217;s show was any indication, is superb.  (More on the CD in a future post.)<\/p>\n<p>I complain that some of my favorite artists rarely if ever come to NYC.  That&#8217;s because some of them are relatively obscure and tend to live in places like Texas and Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I wouldn&#8217;t trade NYC for any of those places.  So often I go out to see a band or a singer-songwriter and discover that somebody else really great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30536365@N00\/2929035269\/\" title=\"Chris Trapper, Living Room, 9 Oct 2008 by jsobel, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3135\/2929035269_038b61ef38_o.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"250\" alt=\"Chris Trapper, Living Room, 9 Oct 2008\" style=\"float:right;margin:10px;border:1px solid gray\" \/><\/a> just happens to be playing that same night at the same club, or just around the corner.  Last night we arrived for Laura&#8217;s show and found that <a href=\"http:\/\/christrapper.com\/\">Chris Trapper<\/a> was playing right after her.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elisapeimer.com\/\">Elisa<\/a> introduced me to Chris&#8217;s music (with the Push Stars) not long ago and I was hooked.  So we stayed for his solo set.  I laughed, I cried.  (Seriously &#8211; some of his songs are very sweet and sad, and one of them was so sweet and sad it made me tear up.)  If you&#8217;re not familiar with Chris Trapper&#8217;s music, what are you doing here? <a href=\"http:\/\/christrapper.com\/music.html\">Go listen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More live music: again at the Living Room last night for Laura Vecchione&#8216;s CD release show. Laura&#8217;s first CD made my &#8220;Best of 2006&#8221; list, and now she&#8217;s touring the country and shopping a brand new disc which, if last night&#8217;s show was any indication, is superb. (More on the CD in a future post.) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/?p=391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laura Vecchione and Chris Trapper&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jonsobel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}