{"id":15945,"date":"2019-08-08T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randyw.camiwp.com\/?p=15945"},"modified":"2019-09-18T11:25:38","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T19:25:38","slug":"15945","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=15945","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/truth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/truth.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"truth\" width=\"330\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15946\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/truth.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/truth-150x97.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/truth-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRUTH<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of hard to find today, but back in 1968 truth was (more) readily available.  <\/p>\n<p>That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the year Jeff Beck laid waste to what had come before with his blues-rock album <em>Truth<\/em>. His band was an evolution of the Yardbirds and a foreshadowing of Faces. With Ron Wood on bass, vocals by Rod Stewart, and Beck\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s electrifying guitar, this is the seminal electric blues, modified R&#038;B, and psychedelically influenced rock and heavy-metal album. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Truth<\/em> was released to little fanfare months before Led Zeppelin I, and is now considered the holy grail for of this type of music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c especially in original UK LP or Audio Fidelity SACD real media form. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With the release of Jimi Hendrix\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Electric Ladyland, Cream\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Wheels Of Fire, Free\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Tons Of Sobs, the Stones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Beggars Banquet and The Beatles\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 seminal White Album, 1968 was a watershed year for rock music.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/the-jeff-beck-group-the-whole-truth\">The Whole Truth<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/81VfQ2XBpmL._SL1500_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/81VfQ2XBpmL._SL1500_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"81VfQ2XBpmL._SL1500_\" width=\"330\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/81VfQ2XBpmL._SL1500_.jpg 330w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/81VfQ2XBpmL._SL1500_-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/81VfQ2XBpmL._SL1500_-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 330px) 85vw, 330px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRUTH It&#8217;s kind of hard to find today, but back in 1968 truth was (more) readily available. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the year Jeff Beck laid waste to what had come before with his blues-rock album Truth. His band was an evolution of the Yardbirds and a foreshadowing of Faces. With Ron Wood on bass, vocals by Rod &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/?p=15945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15945"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16370,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15945\/revisions\/16370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randywells.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}