{"id":4592,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/henry-butler-homeland\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"henry-butler-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4592","title":{"rendered":"Henry Butler &#8211; Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Henry Butler\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/homeland_.jpg\" width=\"110\" height=\"108\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"4\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 16px; font-face: verdana\"><strong>Henry Butler<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 18px; font-face: verdana\" color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Homeland<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11px; font-face: verdana\">  (High Note &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by John Thompson  <\/p>\n<p><\/font>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"FONT-SIZE: 13px; font-face: verdana\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  It&#8217;s party time &#8216;yall, especially if you like the flavors of the Bayou. Pianist Henry Butler seems to be in the mood for this festive-feeling release. Accompanied by Vasti Jackson (G), Nick Daniels III (B), and Raymond Weber (D), Butler detours from classic jazz into electric boogie.   <\/p>\n<p>  Let there be funky (Homeland, The Game Band Strut), Let there be blues (Ode to Fess, You Can&#8217;t Beat My Love, and Casino, with meaningful slide guitar), and let the good times roll (Jump to the Music, Henry&#8217;s Boogie. There are lots of vocals from Butler: some good, some&#8230;it&#8217;s up to you. Isaac Hayes&#8217; I Stand Accused for me, was a no no.  <\/p>\n<p>  There are references to the 60&#8217;s-70&#8217;s Bayou-area group, The Meters (Some Iko), and other New Orleans area cuisine. A band and music like this is sure to extract from the audience some happy feet. 3 stars.      <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"><\/p>\n<p\/><?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/cfinclude><\/font>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Butler Homeland (High Note &#8211; 2004) by John Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}