{"id":2216,"date":"2018-12-25T05:17:26","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T05:17:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jboor.net\/?p=2216"},"modified":"2018-12-26T21:06:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T21:06:59","slug":"the-beautiful-waitress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/?p=2216","title":{"rendered":"The Beautiful Waitress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A song by Terry Allen, interpreted by J. Boor:<br \/>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2216-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jboor.net\/snd\/waitress.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboor.net\/snd\/waitress.mp3\">http:\/\/www.jboor.net\/snd\/waitress.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/tAllen.jpeg\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"33%\"> More folks should listen to Terry Allen. He&#8217;s great. <i>Lubbock: on Everything<\/i>, whence this song, is my favorite of his records. His songwriting and performance are both <i>sui generis<\/i>. This is a Latin phrase which, I suspect, Allen would understand, but then interpret as &#8220;soo-ee generous,&#8221; applicable to a farmer who doesn&#8217;t mind calling his pigs for a long time.<\/p>\n<p><i>Juarez<\/i> (my second favorite Terry Allen album) is something like a musical Richard Brautigan story (howbeit comparisons are odious).<\/p>\n<p>Allen is also a professional visual artist.<\/p>\n<p>I think the only song of his that&#8217;s known outside of his cult is &#8220;Amarillo Highway&#8221;. Robert Earl Keen covered it at some point and probably still plays it live, if Robert Earl Keen is still alive. Is Robert Earl Keen still alive? Somehow I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d have gotten the irony of the song had I heard the REK version first. Keen can do self-parody, but Allen never cuts it out. &#8220;I Just Left Myself Today&#8221; is my favorite country music parody.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Terry Allen looked like when he was a hip young person:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/terryAllen.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"50%\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A song by Terry Allen, interpreted by J. Boor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jboor.net\/snd\/waitress.mp3\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.jboor.net\/snd\/waitress.mp3<\/a> More folks should listen to Terry Allen. He&#8217;s great. Lubbock: on Everything, whence this song, is my favorite of his records. His songwriting and performance are both sui generis. This is a Latin phrase which, I suspect, Allen would understand, but then interpret as &#8220;soo-ee &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/?p=2216\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;The Beautiful Waitress&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eFJp-zK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jermboor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}