{"id":7808,"date":"2024-12-27T22:58:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T22:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curtbile.com\/?p=7808"},"modified":"2024-12-28T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-28T05:52:14","slug":"sweet-and-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtbile.com\/?p=7808","title":{"rendered":"Sweet and low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/curtbile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/01-Blown-Away.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Blown Away<\/em> first song on Matthew Sweet&#8217;s latest album &#8220;Catspaw&#8221; or &#8220;Caraway?&#8221; Shazam annoyingly does not identify album name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bummed to hear that Matthew had suffered a stroke. Serious enough to merit crowd funding effort to cover medical expenses. Last I saw he had raised $400,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I bought this album through MP3 download, for the price of around eleven dollars from Amazon. I hope that counts as participating given surely Sweet receives royalties on sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Converted to disc via Nero Express laser burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Symptoms of his decline were characterized as probably not playing guitar any longer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strokes are an odd occurence causing devastating brain injury. Jamie Fox had one, but remained elusive with media for over a year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to be an<em> inside-baseball<\/em> jerk, but my guess is that Matthew may have ignored high blood-pressure. Living the rock-n-roll gig lifestyle. This is total speculation based on fan-boy particpation&#8211; and intense study of 100 PERCENT FUN era material and beyond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nice to see people are aiding in Sweet recovery.             <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blown Away first song on Matthew Sweet&#8217;s latest album &#8220;Catspaw&#8221; or &#8220;Caraway?&#8221; Shazam annoyingly does not identify album name. Bummed to hear that Matthew had suffered a stroke. Serious enough to merit crowd funding effort to cover medical expenses. Last I saw he had raised $400,000. I bought this album through MP3 download, for the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/curtbile.com\/?p=7808\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweet and low<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":929,"url":"https:\/\/curtbile.com\/?p=929","url_meta":{"origin":7808,"position":0},"title":"SWEET PETE","author":"curtbi8_wp","date":"August 18, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Actor Peter Fonda passed away this week. 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