{"id":1088,"date":"2012-02-26T13:28:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2022-12-15T13:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T13:30:49","slug":"rest-in-peace-louisiana-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/26\/rest-in-peace-louisiana-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Rest in Peace Louisiana Red"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am saddened to tell you that a Blues legend and old friend Louisiana Red passed away on Saturday. I had the Honor of playing my Blues with Louisiana during my time in the Phoenix Arizona Blues scene.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220525215428im_\/https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/image16.jpg?resize=200%2C113\" alt=\"image\" class=\"wp-image-431\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>I can tell you that Louisiana was not only a powerful down home blues artist but a man of passion and honesty. I was fortunate to speak and reminisce with Louisiana in December 2011 during a performance in Frankfurt where he once again displayed his mastery of Voice, Guitar telling his story of life.&nbsp; See you there Louisiana Red.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Louisiana_Red_Dusseldorf-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1089\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Louisiana_Red_Dusseldorf-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Louisiana_Red_Dusseldorf-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Louisiana_Red_Dusseldorf-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Louisiana_Red_Dusseldorf-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Louisiana_Red_Dusseldorf.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Picture: Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am saddened to tell you that a Blues legend and old friend Louisiana Red passed away on Saturday. I had the Honor of playing my Blues with Louisiana during my time in the Phoenix Arizona Blues scene. I can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/26\/rest-in-peace-louisiana-red\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-1088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cottontalk","tag-robert-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1088\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertcottonband.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}