{"id":307,"date":"2012-01-30T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/welcome\/you-can-always-live-on-rice-and-potatoes\/"},"modified":"2012-01-30T10:10:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T14:10:00","slug":"you-can-always-live-on-rice-and-potatoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/you-can-always-live-on-rice-and-potatoes\/","title":{"rendered":"You can always live on rice and potatoes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but sadly, you can&#8217;t have a kickin&#8217; CD recorded for rice and potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>If you could, I would. I&#8217;d establish my own little rice paddy here on the west bank of the LaHave River, add in the spuds I grew in the barrels out back last summer, and I&#8217;d be all set.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn&#8217;t work that way.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;m asking for your help.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking to record my third CD in April. I have a bunch of amazing songs, I&#8217;m looking to put together a brilliant band, and the album is guaranteed to be emotionally gripping, thought-provoking and very, very listenable. It&#8217;s going to be the kind of cd you&#8217;re going to want to sing along with when you&#8217;re cooking at home, out for a walk, in the car, on the bus, or enjoying a quiet evening alone or with friends. You&#8217;ll hum the songs on your bike, around the office, walking down the street. These songs will fill your heart and soul and make you long for something you ain&#8217;t quite found yet, or maybe something you had and lost and are working to regain, or maybe something you know you have and celebrate every single day.<\/p>\n<p>David Francey often jokes about the &#8220;lucrative world of Canadian Folk Music&#8221;. Sometimes, it doesn&#8217;t seem like there&#8217;s a living to be made here. I certainly haven&#8217;t been able to pay myself a cent for the time and energy I put in in the studio on my first two CDs. Everyone else got paid, but I worked for free.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, as Old Man Luedecke says, I can always live on rice and potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>But I simply can&#8217;t make this next album without you.<\/p>\n<p>Please, if one of my songs has ever made you smile or laugh or cry or sing or dance, pre-purchase my third CD by going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kapipal.com\/alexsings\">Kapipal.com\/alexsings<\/a>. (If you don&#8217;t feel comfortable making an on-line donation, contact me by <a href=\"mailto:alex@alexsings.ca\">e-mail<\/a> and we&#8217;ll work something else out.)<\/p>\n<p>And thank you very, very much.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. If after reading this, you are craving listening to Old Man Luedecke&#8217;s awesome song, I Quit My Job, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/5sirUrNjsgQ\">here&#8217;s a link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;but sadly, you can&#8217;t have a kickin&#8217; CD recorded for rice and potatoes. If you could, I would. I&#8217;d establish my own little rice paddy here on the west bank of the LaHave River, add in the spuds I grew <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/you-can-always-live-on-rice-and-potatoes\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,63,39,52,87,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buy","category-collaboration","category-community","category-creativity","category-crowd-funding","category-crowd-sourcing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexsings.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}