{"id":420,"date":"2005-08-07T13:53:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T13:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/?p=420"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:44:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:44:24","slug":"harlem-week-of-8805","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/2005\/08\/07\/harlem-week-of-8805\/","title":{"rendered":"HARLEM: Week of 8\/8\/05"},"content":{"rendered":"<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 \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/uploaded_images\/music_pic_johnny_guitar_watson-737104.jpg\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;color:#990000;\"><strong>JOHNNY &#8220;GUITAR&#8221; WATSON<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#ffffff;\">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;\">Harlem Airs On XM 5:<\/span><\/strong><br \/>Monday @ 1pm EST<br \/>Tuesday @ 9pm over LA and Midnight over NYC<br \/>Thursday @ 1pm EST<br \/>Friday @ 6pm EST<br \/>Sunday @ 11am EST<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","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=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattthecat.com\/Blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}