{"id":327,"date":"2009-04-13T19:49:42","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T02:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts-wp\/?p=327"},"modified":"2015-12-14T08:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:30:45","slug":"alexi-murdoch-the-el-rey-4809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/04\/alexi-murdoch-the-el-rey-4809\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexi Murdoch @ the El Rey 4\/8\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the fine folks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.losanjealous.com\/\">Losanjealous<\/a>, I was able to head over to the El Rey to see Alexi Murdoch last Wednesday.\u00a0 I had conflicting plans the last opportunity I had to see him perform (at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland a few years ago).\u00a0 I arrived a little after 9pm, to a pretty full crowd already standing around (and sitting on the dance floor).\u00a0 The opening act, the Portland Cello Project (or PCP as they joked), consisted of 5 cello players and a percusionist.\u00a0 They played a wide variety of interpretations of songs from such diverse artists as Dave Brubeck and Pantera.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rhinoblues.com\/sights\/galleries\/friends\/aleximurdoch4-8\/IMG_0173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After a short break out came Alexi.\u00a0 The place was completely quiet as Alexi began his set, and really for the most part remained that way throughout the entire set.\u00a0 He played a nice mix of songs from his LP and new songs from a forthcoming &#8220;long EP or short LP.&#8221;\u00a0 A nice surprise was that they had just received a limited run of this new materials that were hand stamped and individually numbered (I ended up getting number 26\/5000).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got to say, Alexi hasn&#8217;t missed a beat with the new songs.\u00a0 Of them, the one that&#8217;s been played over and over again is called &#8220;Through the Dark.&#8221;\u00a0 The album should be in stores in a few months.\u00a0 He doesn&#8217;t tour often, so if you get the chance, go see him.\u00a0 It&#8217;ll be worth it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rhinoblues.com\/sights\/galleries\/friends\/aleximurdoch4-8\/IMG_0180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/> \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/rhinoblues.com\/sights\/galleries\/friends\/aleximurdoch4-8\/IMG_0177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"360\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the fine folks at Losanjealous, I was able to head over to the El Rey to see Alexi Murdoch last Wednesday.\u00a0 I had conflicting plans the last opportunity I had to see him perform (at the Doug Fir Lounge in Portland a few years ago).\u00a0 I arrived a little after 9pm, to a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/2009\/04\/alexi-murdoch-the-el-rey-4809\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[175,50],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-alexi-murdoch","tag-concerts","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/upload\/\/app_1_220086724709892_1567717122.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rhinoblues.com\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}