{"id":787,"date":"2008-03-24T01:16:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-24T05:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/s265039441.onlinehome.us\/philpaine\/?p=787"},"modified":"2018-08-14T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T22:52:11","slug":"navajo-two-step-songs-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=787","title":{"rendered":"Navajo Two-Step Songs&nbsp;Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->There\u2019s noth\u00ading pon\u00adder\u00adously \u201cspir\u00adi\u00adtual\u201d in Nava\u00adho Two-Step songs. This is par\u00adty music, light-heart\u00aded and iron\u00adic songs of love and court\u00ading that you can hear at week\u00adend social gath\u00ader\u00adings all over Dine\u00adtah. The genre has made stars of singers like Ed Lee Natay and Davis Mitchell. Nava\u00adho music is a bit far from my cur\u00adrent stomp\u00ading grounds, but years ago, I used to hang out in that part of the world, and I picked up some good tapes. This is one of my favourites, record\u00aded at the Chin\u00adle Val\u00adley Fes\u00adti\u00adval in April of 1986. Fine per\u00adfor\u00admances by the Toh-Den-Nas Shai Singers, Twin Lakes Swingers, Smoke Sig\u00adnal Trav\u00adel\u00aders, Four Cor\u00adners Singers, Nataani Nez Trav\u00adel\u00aders, Beclabito Val\u00adley Singers, and the Chin\u00adle Val\u00adley Boys. Most note\u00adwor\u00adthy are the boun\u00adcy first num\u00adber, \u201cSix Pack To Go\u201d by Toh-Den-Nas Shai and the amus\u00ading \u201cMy Moth\u00ader Dis\u00adlikes Our Rela\u00adtion\u00adship\u201d by Four Cor\u00adners Singers.<\/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>There\u2019s noth\u00ading pon\u00adder\u00adously \u201cspir\u00adi\u00adtual\u201d in Nava\u00adho Two-Step songs. This is par\u00adty music, light-heart\u00aded and iron\u00adic songs of love and court\u00ading that you can hear at week\u00adend social gath\u00ader\u00adings all over Dine\u00adtah. The genre has made stars of singers like&nbsp;Ed&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=787\">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":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-cs-listening-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8659,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}