{"id":2226,"date":"2021-01-13T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2226"},"modified":"2021-11-19T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:40:47","slug":"goodbye-almira-album-reaches-ten-year-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/?p=2226","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye, Almira album reaches ten-year milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1019\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover-1019x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1598\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover-1019x1024.png 1019w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover-298x300.png 298w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover-768x772.png 768w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/goodbyealmiracover.png 1694w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1019px) 100vw, 1019px\" \/><figcaption><em>Original cover of Goodbye, Almira by Alex Battles<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Goodbye, Almira<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Original liner notes by Shafer Hall<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">September, 2011<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Few songwriters in contemporary New York City are as considerate to their audiences as Alex Battles. From JFK Airport to the foothills of the Rockies, Alex gives us everything from old blue pickups to fondue. There is something of the country and something of the city in this extraordinary young man.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And that is just his lyrical content. His melodies and arrangements take us from the polka halls of the Midwest all the way down to the cantinas of Mexico.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If a show at Hank\u2019s Saloon calls for raucousness, Alex and the band will rock. If it\u2019s midnight at Sunny\u2019s in Red Hook, he can play quietly with the folkies. The amazing thins is that at both places he will play the same songs.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This collection of songs is the lost and found of the heart; this album is the box beneath the pool table win the back room where you left your innocence, and I left my dignity. Alex is the emotional designated driver for our late night souls.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If it\u2019s true, as a young man once said, that Alex is akin to Kirk Douglas\u2019s nephew Sam Douglas, and that the Whisky Rebellion is like Sam\u2019s entourage, then the Brooklyn night burns bright with this celebrity. There is another Fifth Avenue just south of the one you know; let Alex show you around.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">~ Shafer Hall is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Never-Cry-Woof-Shafer-Hall\/dp\/0615141404\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Never-Cry-Woof-Shafer-Hall\/dp\/0615141404\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Never Cry Woof<\/a> ~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">~~~<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Goodbye, Almira is available for purchase and streaming on <a href=\"http:\/\/whiskyrebellion.bandcamp.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"http:\/\/whiskyrebellion.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bandcamp<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goodbye, Almira Original liner notes by Shafer Hall September, 2011 Few songwriters in contemporary New York City are as considerate to their audiences as Alex Battles. From JFK Airport to the foothills of the Rockies, Alex gives us everything from old blue pickups to fondue. There is something of the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2226\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexbattles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}