{"id":35796,"date":"2012-01-15T13:15:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=35796"},"modified":"2012-01-15T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T20:17:15","slug":"allee-willis%e2%80%99-soul-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-groovin-away-with-booker-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis%e2%80%99-soul-o%e2%80%99-the-day-%e2%80%93-groovin-away-with-booker-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis\u2019 Soul O\u2019 The Day \u2013 “Groovin'” Away With Booker T."},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

No new kitsch posts today as I woke up bright and early to finesse a melody and finish a lyric before engineer Supremo, Jared Lee Gosselin<\/a>, and soul legend, Booker T.<\/a>, walk through the portals of Willis Wonderland in less than an hour. \u00a0We started a killer song, title as yet undetermined, on Friday.\u00a0All I need to do is hear Booker hit the keys of a B-3 and melodies start dancin in my head.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

I could NOT believe that I was singin’ with Booker T again!\u00a0It had been almost 30 years since we wrote together. That was before I started carrying a camera around so no photos of us together. Though here’s what I looked like at the time for some context:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

Our new song has a “Green Onions” vibe to it.<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

And it definitely has the insane soulfulness of “Groovin”:<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n

So, back tomorrow with more kitsch. As for today, it’s SOUL all the way!<\/p>\n\"\"<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No new kitsch posts today as I woke up bright and early to finesse a melody and finish a lyric before engineer Supremo, Jared Lee Gosselin, and soul legend, Booker T., walk through the portals of Willis Wonderland in less than an hour. \u00a0We started a killer song, title as yet undetermined, on Friday.\u00a0All I … read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,413,1,87,193,13,249,75],"tags":[61,3037,3039,3038,3040,2416,3232,3245,3041],"class_list":["post-35796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afro","category-celebrity","category-forgot-to-categorize","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-people","category-songwriting","tag-allee-willis","tag-booker-t-jones","tag-green-onions","tag-groovin","tag-hammond-b-3","tag-jared-lee-gosselin","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-soul-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}