{"id":28853,"date":"2021-10-04T05:12:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/?p=28853"},"modified":"2021-10-03T13:24:25","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T18:24:25","slug":"the-emigrants-blues-new-single-from-tommy-keyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/the-emigrants-blues-new-single-from-tommy-keyes\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Emigrants\u2019 Blues\u201d \u2013 new single from Tommy Keyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. -->\n\n<p>\u201cThe Emigrants\u2019 Blues\u201d \u2013 new single from Tommy Keyes<br>\u201cThe Emigrants\u2019 Blues\u201d is the new single from veteran singer-songwriter Tommy Keyes,<br>officially releasing on 26 August but available for immediate airplay. It\u2019s the third single<br>from the forthcoming album Radio Days \u2013 the first two singles, \u201cAny Other World\u201d and<br>\u201cRadio Days\u201d both made no 1 in the iTunes singer-songwriter charts and got hundreds of<br>radio plays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe  id=\"_ytid_40929\"  width=\"696\" height=\"391\"  data-origwidth=\"696\" data-origheight=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ZVIiST22-A?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/4ZVIiST22-A<br>\u201cThe Emigrants\u2019 Blues\u201d has a strong folk influence in both style and subject matter.<br>According to Jackie Hayden of Hot Press, \u201cthe banjofied, folksy \u2018The Emigrants&#8217; Blues\u2019<br>evokes the gutsy honesty of Luke Kelly and the harmonica adds a touch of St Bob\u201d.<br>The song evokes the hard lives of the Irishmen who worked on construction sites<br>throughout the world in the 20 th century, their \u201cdays filled with sweat and nights filled with<br>booze\u201d. See the video here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hRYvymY6NxQ<br>Its waltz-like rhythm and memorable chorus make this an ideal song for radio play.<br>DATA:<br>ISR: IE-NBC-21-00005<br>Duration: 3.10 Clean edit: YES Genre: Pop \/ Singer-Songwriter \/ Folk<br>Label: Keyes Records<br>Written and produced by Tommy Keyes; published by Tommy Keyes Music \u00a9 2021.<br>Registered with IMRO and affiliates. Licenced to play in public.<br>Credits: Tommy Keyes: piano, vocals Dick Farrelly: guitars, banjo, bass Gerard Farrelly: drums<br>Vinny Clohisey and Paul O\u2019Toole: harmonica, backing vocals; Mick Brady, Syl Burke and PJ Maher:<br>backing vocals. Engineered and mixed by Michael Heffernan Mastered by Fergal Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Emigrants\u2019 Blues\u201d \u2013 new single from Tommy Keyes\u201cThe Emigrants\u2019 Blues\u201d is the new single from veteran singer-songwriter Tommy Keyes,officially releasing on 26 August but available for immediate airplay. It\u2019s the third singlefrom the forthcoming album Radio Days \u2013 the first two singles, \u201cAny Other World\u201d and\u201cRadio Days\u201d both made no 1 in the iTunes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blues","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28864,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28853\/revisions\/28864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}