{"id":7902,"date":"2011-01-21T00:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=7902"},"modified":"2011-01-20T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T22:51:08","slug":"mr-handys-blues-hall-juke-joint-beale-street-memphis-tn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2011\/01\/21\/mr-handys-blues-hall-juke-joint-beale-street-memphis-tn\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Handy&#8217;s Blues Hall &#8211; Juke Joint &#8211; Beale Street &#8211; Memphis, TN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/tennessee\/memphis_blues_hall01.jpg?resize=570%2C379\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/tennessee\/memphis_blues_hall02.jpg?resize=570%2C379\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"379\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"570\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MwC_EzY5Uvk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Old Beale Street is coming down<br \/>\nSweeties\u2019 Snack Bar, boarded up now<br \/>\nAnd Egles The Tailor and the Shine Boy\u2019s gone<br \/>\nFaded out with ragtime blues<br \/>\nHandy\u2019s cast in bronze<br \/>\nAnd he\u2019s standing in a little park<br \/>\nWith a trumpet in his hand<br \/>\nLike he\u2019s listening back to the good old bands<br \/>\nAnd the click of high heeled shoes<br \/>\nOld Furry sings the blues<\/em><em><br \/>\n-Furry Sings the Blues, Hejira<\/em> (1976) Joni Mitchell<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other postings with WC Handy references:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=2852\" target=\"_blank\">Furry Sings the Blues &#8211; Joni Mitchell &#8211; Jay Warren &#8211; Memphis TN<\/a> -December 26, 2008<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=4606\" target=\"_blank\">Memphis \u2013 Home of the Blues \u2013 Birthplace of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll <\/a>&#8211; Sep 27th, 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old Beale Street is coming down Sweeties\u2019 Snack Bar, boarded up now And Egles The Tailor and the Shine Boy\u2019s gone Faded out with ragtime blues Handy\u2019s cast in bronze And he\u2019s standing in a little park With a trumpet in his hand Like he\u2019s listening back to the good old bands And the click [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[125,425,821,981],"tags":[1923,1774],"class_list":["post-7902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bars","category-derelict-neon","category-jazz-clubs","category-memphis-tn","tag-juke-joints","tag-wc-handy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-23s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}