{"id":52,"date":"2007-07-27T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/songwriter\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2016-06-14T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T13:42:14","slug":"orange-capri","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/floodplain-demos\/orange-capri\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Farmer of Rattledown Row"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-297\" title=\"famer1SM\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?resize=500%2C500&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"famer1SM\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/famer1SM.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Track &#8216;City of stars&#8217; renamed &#8216;Big City Nights&#8217; on re-release CD<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"350\" height=\"470\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 350px; height: 470px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=2475512081\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quantcast.com\/p-05---xoNhTXVc\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-05---xoNhTXVc.gif?resize=1%2C1\" alt=\"Quantcast\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>trailer star records TSR005<\/p>\n<p>Originally released 1993 as a Horseshoe Tape<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW&#8217; &#8211; 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS 003)<\/p>\n<p>The story behind the songs&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Big Time! Moved back to London -got my Fostex working overtime ( well three out of four channels anyway) and made the tape that would ensure I&#8217;d go down as the Berkshire Hank Williams! Ended up playing some pretty ridiculous gigs with a drunken bunch of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/thehighpriests\">HIGH PRIESTS<\/a> which gained some attention and a debut 7&#8243;(click name to see full story).<\/p>\n<p>Thought I was Tom Waits\/ Raymond Carver and the ghost of Old Hank Williams until I sent out the tapes to all and sundry and received just two replies from a head honcho at EMI believe it or not who said the words were good -the music and singing not -and someone at Roundtower Records who was too polite to tell me I wasn&#8217;t the next Tom Russell but who sent me some of Tom&#8217;s discs anyway (for guidance?) so that made me feel a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Guess what &#8230;I still think 15 years later that I&#8217;m the Berkshire ghost of Hank Williams&#8230;too late to stop now&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..and there&#8217;s a bloke down the chip shop swears he&#8217;s Elvis&#8230;no really he&#8217;s the spitting image&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Original cassette sleeve art<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shaunbelcher.com\/archive\/river\/farmer.jpg?resize=468%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Track &#8216;City of stars&#8217; renamed &#8216;Big City Nights&#8217; on re-release CD trailer star records TSR005 Originally released 1993 as a Horseshoe Tape &#8216;LAST FARMER OF RATTLEDOWN ROW&#8217; &#8211; 1993 Horseshoe Tape (HS&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-52","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P7DCHF-Q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/52\/revisions\/776"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trailerstar.co.uk\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}