{"id":120925,"date":"2024-01-10T09:15:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-10T14:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/?p=120925"},"modified":"2024-01-10T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T17:56:37","slug":"saccos-country-open-mic-88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/saccos-country-open-mic-88\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacco&#8217;s Country Open Mic &#8217;88"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/saccos88.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1980&#8217;s Sacco&#8217;s in Watertown, MA  had a country music open mic, where I&#8217;d go in early to get dinner and listen to local singer-songwriters and try out my own stuff. This clip is from 1988\u2026<br \/>I have a couple other tapes somewhere &#8211; recorded on an Akai<br \/>portable tape deck. Sometimes I did the soundboard there (Where I met Paul Terazzo\/Kenny Selzer\/Brother Cleve &#8211; and the standard folks Ed Kunkle, Bucky Bear, the guy<br \/>who played pedal steel on a keyboard, Dave Sammarco, Karen Silver\u2026so many others I have forgotten &#8211; I even made demo tapes for Mark Shapiro)<br \/>This was before the Harvard Square &#8211; Black Rose open mics (famous for bumping me to an 11:15 slot) which turned into the Kendall Cafe Open Mic&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just a couple songs here  (not my set which i have)<br \/>Up against the wall &#8211; Uncle Kunkle and Robert Wheeler playing Ukulele Lady, I think\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more of this stuff (I&#8217;m not in here either- shot slightly before I started &#8211; many names are familiar) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TFV3QP-Fwlk&amp;list=PLCAD26AFBC62E7C06\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TFV3QP-Fwlk&amp;list=PLCAD26AFBC62E7C06<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1980&#8217;s Sacco&#8217;s in Watertown, MA had a country music open mic, where I&#8217;d go in early to get dinner and listen to local singer-songwriters and try out my own stuff. This clip is from 1988\u2026I have a couple other tapes somewhere &#8211; recorded on an Akaiportable tape deck. Sometimes I did the soundboard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogable-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120925"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120929,"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120925\/revisions\/120929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlgarden.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}