{"id":8472,"date":"2010-08-16T04:24:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T11:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2010-07-06T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T01:38:19","slug":"tgif-august-20-earl-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8472","title":{"rendered":"TGIF August 20: Earl Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/earl_thomas.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/earl_thomas.jpg','popup','width=400,height=450,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/earl_thomas-tm.jpg\" height=\"225\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Earl Thomas\" \/><\/a>Hard to believe it&#8217;s over, but what better way to shut down the 25th anniversary season of <em>Carlsbadistan&#8217;s<\/em> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8206\" target=\"_blank\">TGIF Jazz in the Park<\/a><\/strong> than with the <em>Blu-ro-so-funk<\/em> of <strong>Earl Thomas<\/strong> playing <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?client=safari&amp;q=2997+Glasgow+Drive,+Carlsbad&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=2997+Glasgow+Dr,+Carlsbad,+San+Diego,+California+92010&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=8sYzTIxphducB4T4teUD&amp;ved=0CBQQ8gEwAA&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">Calavera Park<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>His 1991 major label debut <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00000FEMA?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sacklunch&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B00000FEMA\" target=\"_blank\">Blue . . . Not Blues<\/a><\/em><\/strong> blended the sensuality of Stax soul with the grittiness of modern electric blues, but the real indication of his talent is the power of his voice and his knack for crafting memorable contemporary blues and this is what made Earl Thomas one of the most highly respected blues artists in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And he&#8217;s playing <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em>. Earl Thomas is your last chance this summer. He is likely the best vocalist to <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> in years. Don&#8217;t put TGIF Jazz in the Park off any longer. Just go. Show starts at 6 PM.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=8206\" target=\"_blank\">TGIF Jazz in the Park<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe it&#8217;s over, but what better way to shut down the 25th anniversary season of Carlsbadistan&#8217;s TGIF Jazz in the Park than with the Blu-ro-so-funk of Earl Thomas playing Calavera Park. His 1991 major label debut Blue . . . Not Blues blended the sensuality of Stax soul with the grittiness of modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8473,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/8473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}