{"id":1261,"date":"2021-10-03T03:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T03:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2021-11-16T14:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T14:58:39","slug":"organist-dr-lonnie-smith-teams-with-pop-icon-iggy-pop-for-remake-of-pop-classic-sunshine-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/2021\/10\/03\/organist-dr-lonnie-smith-teams-with-pop-icon-iggy-pop-for-remake-of-pop-classic-sunshine-superman\/","title":{"rendered":"Organist Dr. Lonnie Smith teams with Pop Icon Iggy Pop for remake of pop classic&#8230; &#8220;Sunshine Superman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jazz Master Dr. Lonnie Smith recently passed away September 28th of this year. Earlier this year, he released his final album,&nbsp;<em>Breathe<\/em>, on Blue Note Records. The full-length album contains two collaborative tracks with rock icon Iggy Pop, including a soul-jazz take on Donovan\u2019s 1966 hit song, \u201cSunshine Superman.\u201d  In honor of Dr. Smith, we decided to feature that selection as a tribute, which you can listen to here.  Iggy Pop recently took to social media to salute Smith and called him \u201cnothing but pure soul and the best musician I ever played with.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a bonus for Smith&#8217;s many fans, we added Dr. Smiths most iconic release from back in 1968,  the incessant and infectious 9:09 minute (version) of the driving Live and funky groove of &#8220;Move Your Hand&#8221; featuring Sylvester Goshay on Drums, Larry McGee on Guitar,  Dr. Smith on Organ and Vocals, Ronnie Cuber and Rudy Jones on Saxophone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let us know how you like the collaborative version of \u201cSunshine Superman,\u201d below by clicking &#8216;comments&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Lonnie Smith - Move Your Hand (1970)\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_pIWamaxsQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz Master Dr. Lonnie Smith recently passed away September 28th of this year. Earlier this year, he released his final album,&nbsp;Breathe, on Blue Note Records. The full-length album contains two collaborative tracks with rock icon Iggy Pop, including a soul-jazz take on Donovan\u2019s 1966 hit song, \u201cSunshine Superman.\u201d In honor of Dr. Smith, we decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[201,250],"tags":[413,411,412],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}