{"id":302,"date":"2006-05-11T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-11T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=302"},"modified":"2010-03-22T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:08:54","slug":"harlem-week-of-51506","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2006\/05\/11\/harlem-week-of-51506\/","title":{"rendered":"HARLEM: Week of 5\/15\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:180%;color:#ff0000;\"><strong>Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Watson<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/uploaded_images\/music_pic_johnny_guitar_watson-788770.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/uploaded_images\/music_pic_johnny_guitar_watson-787856.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"color:#cc33cc;\">Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Watson is one of the most underrated R&B; guitar players of the 1950s. He began his career as a piano player for Chuck Higgins&#8217; band before jumping ship as a solo performer for Federal Records in 1953. He scored his biggest hit of the &#8217;50s with the Bihari Brothers RPM Label in 1955 with his cover of Earl King&#8217;s &#8220;Those Lonely Lonely Nights&#8221;. This week, you&#8217;ll hear the best of Watson&#8217;s 1950s recordings, including a demo version of the infamous &#8220;Gangster Of Love&#8221;, which at that time was called &#8220;Bandit Of Love&#8221;. Don&#8217;t miss it as Matt The Cat reveals the story behind the story on one of the original bad boys of R&#038;B.;<br \/><\/span><br \/><strong><span style=\"color:#3366ff;\"><u>Harlem Airs On XM 5:<\/u><\/span><\/strong><br \/>Monday 5\/15 @ 1pm EST<br \/>Tuesday 5\/16 @ 9pm over LA and Midnight over NYC<br \/>Friday 5\/19 @ 6pm EST<br \/>Sunday 5\/21 @ 11am EST <\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Watson Johnny &#8220;Guitar&#8221; Watson is one of the most underrated R&#038;B; guitar players of the 1950s. He began his career as a piano player for Chuck Higgins&#8217; band before jumping ship as a solo performer for Federal Records in 1953. He scored his biggest hit of the &#8217;50s with the Bihari Brothers RPM [&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-302","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\/302","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=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}