{"id":188,"date":"2008-08-23T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T01:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-10-13T09:40:34","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T04:10:34","slug":"buddy-harman-music-rows-hal-blaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Harman &#8211; Music Row&#8217;s Hal Blaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" hspace=0 src=\"https:\/\/keener13.org\/buddy.jpg\" align=left border=0\/>You heard him on Keener playing the drums on Roy Orbison&#8217;s &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221; and Roger Miller&#8217;s &#8220;King of the Road&#8221;. But Buddy Harman, who died August 21 at age 79 is being remembered as the Father of modern country drumming. That&#8217;s him on the skins on Johnny Cash&#8217;s &#8220;Ring of Fire,&#8221; Elvis Presley&#8217;s &#8220;Little Sister,&#8221; Patsy Cline&#8217;s &#8220;Crazy,&#8221; Tammy Wynette&#8217;s &#8220;Stand By Your Man,&#8221; and Ray Price&#8217;s &#8220;Crazy Arms.&#8221; He became the first well known percussionist in the country genre, was the Grand Ole Opry&#8217;s first staff drummer, and provided the back beat that made Country hot stuff during the rock era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You heard him on Keener playing the drums on Roy Orbison&#8217;s &#8220;Pretty Woman&#8221; and Roger Miller&#8217;s &#8220;King of the Road&#8221;. But Buddy Harman, who died August 21 at age 79 is being remembered as the Father of modern country drumming. That&#8217;s him on the skins on Johnny Cash&#8217;s &#8220;Ring of Fire,&#8221; Elvis Presley&#8217;s &#8220;Little Sister,&#8221; Patsy Cline&#8217;s &#8220;Crazy,&#8221; Tammy Wynette&#8217;s &#8220;Stand By Your Man,&#8221; and Ray Price&#8217;s &#8220;Crazy Arms.&#8221; He became the first well known percussionist in the country genre, was the Grand Ole Opry&#8217;s first staff drummer, and provided the back beat that made Country hot stuff during the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20,21],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keener","tag-buddy-harman","tag-hal-blaine","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}