{"id":413,"date":"2013-08-19T19:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/?p=413"},"modified":"2013-08-20T12:20:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T12:20:58","slug":"music-inspiration-by-shannon-grissom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/news\/music-inspiration-by-shannon-grissom","title":{"rendered":"Music Inspiration by Shannon Grissom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div id=\"attachment_415\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\" wp-image-415 \" title=\"Shannon Grissom\" alt=\"Shannon Grissom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\" wp-image-415  lazyload\" title=\"Shannon Grissom\" alt=\"Shannon Grissom\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20320%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" width=\"540\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20540%20320%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom-300x178.jpg 300w\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/files\/2013\/08\/shannon-grissom.jpg\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-415\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shannon Grissom<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Ideas for songs come to me from&nbsp; many sources.&nbsp;&nbsp; First I was watching The Hobbit with my sister-in-law, Bonny Matley, and she remarked\u2026 \u201cCowboys and wizards never lose their hats.\u201d<!--more--><b> <\/b><\/div>\n<p>I laughed and knew right away that I would use her words in a song.<\/p>\n<p>A few days later I was talking with songwriter <a href=\"http:\/\/reverbnation.com\/vmishep\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Shepherd<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0F1qMgJEIbc&amp;feature=endscreen\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Goodman and his song, The City of New Orleans<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Goodman\u2019s story and the imagery from the song really stuck with me.<\/p>\n<p>The last&nbsp; piece of the puzzle came from our own refrigerator. Staring at me was&nbsp; a six-pack of Sierra Nevada\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierranevada.com\/beer\/seasonal\/ruthless-rye\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ruthless Rye<\/em><\/a>.&nbsp; I\u2019ve been wanting&nbsp; to use that beer in a song for a long long time!<\/p>\n<p>This kaleidoscope of ideas all merged when I sat down Saturday to write the song.&nbsp;&nbsp; It makes me sad and smile all at the same time..<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A8cwOYUIHjU\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Lyrics<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I met her in a strange dream<br>\nOn an invisible train<br>\nThe kind that never lose ground<br>\nAnd the kind that never gain<br>\nWe passed seven coyotes<br>\nAnd a bright purple crane<br>\nShe didn&#8217;t try to hide her pain<\/p>\n<p>Said she lost her love<br>\nTo the bottom<br>\nOf a bottle of ruthless rye<br>\nStill she&#8217;s holding hope that he&#8217;ll come back<br>\nDon&#8217;t ya know that cowboys and wizards<br>\nNever lose their hats<\/p>\n<p>I watched her leave him downstream<br>\nQuoting Mark Twain<br>\nWords that make you proud<br>\nSome you&#8217;d have to &#8216;splain<br>\nThere were seven possums<br>\nWaving white flags<br>\nHer silent tears turned to rain<\/p>\n<p>Said she lost her love<br>\nTo the bottom<br>\nOf a bottle of ruthless rye<br>\nStill she&#8217;s holding hope that he&#8217;ll come back<br>\nDon&#8217;t ya know that cowboys and wizards<br>\nNever lose their hats<\/p>\n<p>Like a blue belly lizard,&nbsp; he grew his tail back<br>\nLike a king salmon he swam upstream<br>\nHe&#8217;s both a wizard and a cowboy<br>\nThen the girl turned around and she was me<\/p>\n<p>Oh I lost my love<br>\nTo the bottom<br>\nOf a bottle of ruthless rye<br>\nStill I&#8217;m holding hope that he&#8217;ll come back<br>\nDon&#8217;t ya know that cowboys and wizards<br>\nNever lose their hats<\/p>\n<p>Oh I lost my love<br>\nTo the bottom<br>\nOf a bottle of ruthless rye<br>\nBut I know, I know that I&#8217;ll come back<br>\nDon&#8217;t ya know that cowgirls and wizards<br>\nNever lose their hats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ideas for songs come to me from\u00a0 many sources.\u00a0\u00a0 First I was watching The Hobbit with my sister-in-law, Bonny Matley, and she remarked\u2026 \u201cCowboys and wizards never lose their hats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[188,110,1,711],"tags":[785,710,709],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-music","category-news","category-people","tag-music","tag-musician","tag-shannon-grissom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":417,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}