{"id":757,"date":"2014-12-05T00:29:21","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T05:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=757"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:20:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T19:20:52","slug":"steve-tilston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=757","title":{"rendered":"Steve Tilston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } --><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=8692\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8692\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/14-12-05-LISTN-Steve-Tilston.jpg\" alt=\"14-12-05 LISTN Steve Tilston\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/14-12-05-LISTN-Steve-Tilston.jpg 586w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/14-12-05-LISTN-Steve-Tilston-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a>It will come as no sur\u00adprise to any\u00adone that I\u2019m fond of the Fair\u00adport Con\u00adven\u00adtion song \u201cHere\u2019s To Tom Paine\u201d. That song was orig\u00adi\u00adnally com\u00adposed by the fine Eng\u00adlish folk gui\u00adtarist, Steve Tilston. While he must have over a dozen albums, the only one I own is <em>Swans at Coole<\/em> (1990). Though it nowhere says so on the album, this refers to the William But\u00adler Yeats poem, \u201cThe Wild Swans at Coole\u201d, a wist\u00adful alle\u00adgory of tran\u00adsi\u00adtory beau\u00adty. The album fits that mood. Tilston\u2019s fine, con\u00adtrolled, but not flashy gui\u00adtar play\u00ading is bal\u00adanced with var\u00adied accom\u00adpa\u00adni\u00adments on ban\u00adjo (Kevin Boyle), vio\u00adlin (Stu\u00adart Gor\u00addon), flute (Mag\u00adgy Boyle), and cel\u00adlo (Tony Hilli\u00adgan). If you want to have some\u00adthing play\u00ading on a cold win\u00adter evening, gath\u00adered by the fire\u00adplace, with old friends not inclined to chat\u00adter, this is just about&nbsp;right.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It will come as no sur\u00adprise to any\u00adone that I\u2019m fond of the Fair\u00adport Con\u00adven\u00adtion song \u201cHere\u2019s To Tom Paine\u201d. That song was orig\u00adi\u00adnally com\u00adposed by the fine Eng\u00adlish folk gui\u00adtarist, Steve Tilston. While he must have over a&nbsp;dozen&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=757\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,22],"tags":[1364,1363,1365],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cs-listening-2008","tag-heres-to-tom-paine","tag-steve-tilston","tag-swans-at-coole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}