{"id":36302,"date":"2010-10-06T10:55:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T14:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=36302"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:22:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:22:36","slug":"time-union-corey-harris-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/10\/06\/time-union-corey-harris-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Times Union interviews roots musician Corey Harris &#039;91 about new album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/harris6881web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"135\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/10\/harris6881web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Corey Harris\" \/><\/a>Albany <em>Times Union<\/em> contributor Michael Eck speaks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/entertainment\/article\/No-boundaries-649680.php\">roots musician Corey Harris &#8217;91<\/a> about Harris&#8217; new album, <em>blu.black<\/em> that fuses Harris&#8217; love of both reggae and the blues. Awarded a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x168125.xml\"> MacArthur &#8220;genius award&#8221;<\/a> in 2007, Harris, an anthropology major, says the grant has allowed him &#8220;to further my music. I&#8217;ve been taking some time off to  write, and it&#8217;s also enabled me to record some independent projects.&#8221; Asked about the state of the blues in 2010, Harris says &#8220;there is a side of blues that&#8217;s extremely commercialized, which doesn&#8217;t  have any real connection to&#8230;where the music comes from&#8230;. Then there&#8217;s another side of blues, which is not commercial at all, which  continues to be enjoyed mainly in the South.&#8221; Harris says that the money-making side of the blues &#8220;is at the expense of the root and the tradition. It used to be about personal expression and  creativity, but that has taken a backseat to making money.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/entertainment\/article\/No-boundaries-649680.php\">View  story from the <em>Times Union<\/em>, Sept. 9, 2010<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albany Times Union contributor Michael Eck speaks to roots musician Corey Harris&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[7,11010,133,11009],"tags":[10769,11051,6135],"class_list":["post-36302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-anthropology","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36302"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87495,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36302\/revisions\/87495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}