{"id":4247,"date":"2010-08-24T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/austin.metblogs.com\/?p=4247"},"modified":"2010-08-24T12:07:04","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:07:04","slug":"questlove-john-legend-the-roots-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/archive\/questlove-john-legend-the-roots-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Questlove, John Legend & The Roots Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I first heard about The Roots<\/a> living in NYC in 1995. I picked up their first major label album Do You Want More?!!!??!<\/em> and couldn’t stop listening to it. I completely wore out “You Got Me” from their third album, Things Fall Apart.<\/em> Their latest album, How I Got Over<\/em>, was just released in June.<\/p>\n

I pretend to be a drummer on occasion and had always admired ?uestlove (aka Ahmir Thompson), drummer for The Roots, but developed a serious man crush after seeing him at a live show during SXSW in 2006 for Before the Music Dies<\/a>. I didn’t know about his bandleading skills until that performance, something that would become much more evident when The Roots began their stint as the house band for Jimmy Fallon’s takeover of Late Night<\/a> from Conan O’Brien\u00c2\u00a0 (the only redeeming aspect of that change, in my opinion).<\/p>\n

?uestlove also does guest DJ stints displaying his encyclopedic knowledge of music and will do one tonight<\/a> immediately following the Austin City Limits taping at Red 7 at 9pm. It’s $8 in advance (try End of An Ear records) and $10 at the door and probably will sell out.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s Austin City Limits<\/a> taping will be with John Legend<\/a>. Their collaboration, Wake Up<\/em>, will be released on September 21st. I caught one song at a Central Park performance on Good Morning America<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. The collaboration is inspired by the presidential election campaign of 2008 and is a mix of covers and originals. VH1 has a bunch of behind the scenes videos<\/a> promoting the album. I’ll post a review of the taping tomorrow.<\/p>\n

Here are the air dates for Season 36 of Austin City Limits which airs locally on KLRU<\/a> on Saturday nights at 7pm:<\/p>\n

October 2, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Jimmy Cliff
\nOctober 9, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Spoon
\nOctober 16, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Patty Griffin & Friends
\nOctober 23, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Alejandro Escovedo \/ Trombone Shorty
\nOctober 30, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Robert Earl Keen \/ Hayes Carll
\nNovember 6, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Steve Martin \/ Sarah Jarosz
\nNovember 13, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rosanne Cash \/ Brandi Carlile
\nNovember 20, 2010\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 John Legend & The Roots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I first heard about The Roots living in NYC in 1995. I picked up their first major label album Do You Want More?!!!??! and couldn’t stop listening to it. I completely wore out “You Got Me” from their third album, Things Fall Apart. Their latest album, How I Got Over, was just released in June. […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3fonJ-16v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechunk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}