{"id":553,"date":"2003-03-18T22:08:49","date_gmt":"2003-03-18T22:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=553"},"modified":"2015-11-24T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T21:11:36","slug":"the-bluebirds-highway-80-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/?p=553","title":{"rendered":"THE BLUEBIRDS: Highway 80 East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-554\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast-298x300.jpg\" alt=\"highwayEast\" width=\"298\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast-298x300.jpg 298w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast-1017x1024.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast-258x260.jpg 258w, https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/highwayEast.jpg 1410w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><strong>&#8220;Louisiana&#8217;s most soulful roots rockers&#8221; &#8211; Offbeat Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If hard-rockin\u2019 blues, stripped-down R&amp;B and scorching slide guitars are your high test gasoline, then the Bluebirds are definitely the premium fuel for you.<\/p>\n<p>The Bluebirds hail from the northern-Louisiana town of Shreveport that has spawned such blues greats as Huddie \u201cLeadbelly\u201d Ledbetter and platinum-selling blues slinger Kenny Wayne Shepherd (who played his first professional gig with the Bluebirds). Anyone who has ventured out into the Southern blues circuit in the last seventeen years has probably heard the Bluebirds at one of their 150+ annual gigs!<\/p>\n<p>With Kerry Hunter on drums, Bruce Flett on bass and slowhand slider, blues sharpshooter extraordinaire Buddy Flett on guitar (yes\u2026they are brothers), the Bluebirds echo the big-beat blues of Southern-style R&amp;B, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and the \u201cTush\u201d-era ZZ Top. Buddy\u2019s guitar work scintillates throughout with the ferocity of Elmore James, the economy of Billy Gibbons and the Southern-fried soul of Lowell George.<\/p>\n<p>Leaner than a silver stiletto and tighter than a Saturday night party dress, <em>Highway 80 East<\/em> is likely to be the best blues\/roots\/R&amp;B album you\u2019ll hear this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.com\/B000094Q54\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-138\" src=\"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/amazon-button-02-e1424654609347.png\" alt=\"amazon-button-02\" width=\"129\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Louisiana&#8217;s most soulful roots rockers&#8221; &#8211; Offbeat Magazine If hard-rockin\u2019 blues, stripped-down R&amp;B and scorching slide guitars are your high test gasoline, then the Bluebirds are definitely the premium fuel for you. The Bluebirds hail from the northern-Louisiana town of Shreveport that has spawned such blues greats as Huddie \u201cLeadbelly\u201d Ledbetter and platinum-selling blues slinger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,5,11,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-catalogue","category-rb","category-rock"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5O8RF-8V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":668,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lrhr.dreamhosters.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}