{"id":357,"date":"2009-04-10T21:55:10","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nullozinejr.com\/zine\/?p=357"},"modified":"2009-04-10T21:55:10","modified_gmt":"2009-04-10T21:55:10","slug":"mental-insect-tough-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/2009\/04\/10\/mental-insect-tough-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Insect &#8211; Tough Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"mental insect\" src=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.name\/m\/e\/mentalinsect.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\u00a0My uncle Frank&#8217;s album Two Headed Fly is available on the internet now. \u00a0There are samples and you can buy it\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cdbaby.com\/cd\/mentalinsect\">here<\/a>. \u00a0This cd has one of my favorite tunes of his, &#8216;Tough Times&#8217;, on it which is pretty appropriate these days. \u00a0He sent me this info on it:<\/p>\n<div><em>Hearing the words &#8220;Tough Times&#8221; daily in speeches, on the radio, in news broadcasts, all relating to\u00a0the terrible economy in the USA and around the world&#8230;.. I&#8217;ve reissued Mental Insect&#8217;s version of John Brim&#8217;s blues song, &#8220;Tough Times&#8221; in the digital download format.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>It is now available from\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>iTunes,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>amazon.com<\/em><\/a><em>, emusic, napster, rhapsody and many others.<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<div><em>The rest of the &#8220;Two-Headed Fly&#8221; CD is also available. The site acting as distributor is\u00a0<\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/mentalinsect\" target=\"_blank\"><em>cdbaby.com\/cd\/mentalinsect<\/em><\/a><em>. (They also sell the actual CD.)\u00a0Here you can read a description of the CD, see the artwork (Stephen Deutch&#8217;s great photograph), and hear 30 second\u00a0sound bites\u00a0of nine of the ten songs. There are two versions of &#8220;Tough Times.&#8221; The second longer version features an outstanding slide solo by the\u00a0Chicago blues guitarist, John Duich.\u00a0Chicago&#8217;s legendary jazz violinist, Johnny\u00a0Frigo, plays all strings except cello on the\u00a0string quartet piece, &#8220;Her Kiss of Hate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So get on it and check it out already!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0My uncle Frank&#8217;s album Two Headed Fly is available on the internet now. \u00a0There are samples and you can buy it\u00a0here. \u00a0This cd has one of my favorite tunes of his, &#8216;Tough Times&#8217;, on it which is pretty appropriate these days. \u00a0He sent me this info on it: Hearing the words &#8220;Tough Times&#8221; daily in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"wppr_data":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9K4-5L","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nullozinejr.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}