{"id":191,"date":"2007-07-19T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=191"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:57:40","slug":"harlem-week-of-72307-floyd-dixon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2007\/07\/19\/harlem-week-of-72307-floyd-dixon\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlem: Week Of 7\/23\/07 &#8211; Floyd Dixon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeblues.host.sk\/foto\/f_dixon.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#660000;\"><strong>Floyd Dixon<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panther1.last.fm\/proposedimages\/sidebar\/6\/1048072\/528143.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/panther1.last.fm\/proposedimages\/sidebar\/6\/1048072\/528143.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#660000;\">A year ago on July 26th, we lost one of R&B;&#8217;s most beloved and influential artists; Floyd Dixon. Bill Wax from XM&#8217;s Bluesville and Matt The Cat had the privilege to speak to Floyd only a few months before he died. This week, &#8220;Harlem&#8221; looks back on the amazing career of Floyd Dixon with many of Floyd&#8217;s stories told in his own words. From the original &#8220;Hey Bartender&#8221; (covered by The Blues Brothers) to &#8220;Dallas Blues&#8221; and &#8220;Call Operator 210&#8221;, Floyd was a blues original. His story airs this week on &#8220;Harlem&#8221;.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#cc0000;\">Harlem Airs on the 50s on 5<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Monday 7\/23 @ 1pm ET<br \/>Tuesday 7\/24 @ midnight ET<br \/>Friday 727 @ 6pm ET<br \/>Sun 7\/29 @ 11am ET<br \/><\/span><br \/><span style=\"color:#990000;\">This one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for Floyd! <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Matt The Cat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floyd Dixon A year ago on July 26th, we lost one of R&#038;B;&#8217;s most beloved and influential artists; Floyd Dixon. Bill Wax from XM&#8217;s Bluesville and Matt The Cat had the privilege to speak to Floyd only a few months before he died. This week, &#8220;Harlem&#8221; looks back on the amazing career of Floyd Dixon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harlem","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}