{"id":747,"date":"2011-01-23T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2011-01-23T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T12:33:18","slug":"michael-chapman-at-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-at-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Chapman at 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-748\" title=\"michael-chapman-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/michael-chapman-1.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hard to believe that Michael Chapman turns 70 tomorrow. Although he&#8217;s a kind of elder statesman for the generation of singer\/songwriters that I&#8217;ve been following since my teens (Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, Bridget St John, Kevin Ayers et al), I didn&#8217;t discover his music at the time.\u00a0 I first met him a few years ago at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmicamerican.com\/\">Cosmic American Music<\/a> anniversary party. Or was it after a Steve Earle gig? Lovely guy, with no airs about him at all. Michael remains a big music fan, as well as a compelling live performer, with a superb blues style. For years, he seemed to only play Nottingham on nights when I was teaching, but I&#8217;ve managed to see him three times lately, once on his own and twice with Bridget St John. The first time he played the superb song below, which I vaguely remembered from a Harvest records sampler that came out around 1970, called Picnic. I&#8217;m visiting Scarborough for the first time in 30 years this March, for a writers and readers day, so it seems an appropriate choice.<\/p>\n<p>The excellent mp3 blog <a href=\"http:\/\/en.smalltownromanceblog.com\/\">Small Town Romance<\/a> (named after an obscure Richard Thompson song that happens to be one of my favourites) has featured loads of stuff about Michael all week. If you&#8217;re at all interested, I strongly recommend you head straight over there. Many happy returns, Michael.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/04-Postcards-of-Scarborough.mp3\">Michael Chapman &#8211; Postcards of Scarborough<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe that Michael Chapman turns 70 tomorrow. Although he&#8217;s a kind of elder statesman for the generation of singer\/songwriters that I&#8217;ve been following since my teens (Nick Drake, John Martyn, Richard Thompson, Bridget St John, Kevin Ayers et al), I didn&#8217;t discover his music at the time.\u00a0 I first met him a few years ago at a Cosmic American Music anniversary party. Or was it after a Steve Earle gig? Lovely guy, with no airs about him at all. Michael remains a big music fan, as well as a compelling live performer, with a superb blues style. For years, he seemed to only play Nottingham on nights when I was teaching, but I&#8217;ve managed to see him three times lately, once on his&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":763,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}