{"id":443,"date":"2009-08-17T12:08:33","date_gmt":"2009-08-17T16:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2023-09-19T19:40:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T19:40:41","slug":"les-pauls-influence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/08\/17\/les-pauls-influence\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Paul&#8217;s Influence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Les Paul, inventor and innovator of the solid body electric guitar, passed away last week.\u00a0\u00a0Paul signed with Gibson Guitar company in 1950 to design and manufacture The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gibson_Les_Paul\">Gibson Les Paul model<\/a>, still available today.\u00a0\u00a0Just as there would be no rock n&#8217; roll without the electric guitar; there would be no Chicago blues without the influence of electrified guitar sound.\u00a0\u00a0Chicago blues in the 1960s was dominated by Muddy Waters, Elmore James and Howlin&#8217; Wolf.\u00a0 Correspondent Russell Hall has ranked Howlin&#8217; Wolf&#8217;s &#8220;Spoonful&#8221;, released on Chess Records in 1960, as having one of the top 10 great Gibson Les Paul solos.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qILWNjO0s5Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les Paul, inventor and innovator of the solid body electric guitar, passed away last week.\u00a0\u00a0Paul signed with Gibson Guitar company in 1950 to design and manufacture The Gibson Les Paul model, still available today.\u00a0\u00a0Just as there would be no rock &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/08\/17\/les-pauls-influence\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-79","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10083,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/10083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}