{"id":2045971,"date":"2025-09-24T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2045971"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:46:28","slug":"local-musician-releases-new-cd-old-sad-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/local-musician-releases-new-cd-old-sad-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Musician Releases New CD \u2018Old Sad Songs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jackson County-based folksinger and songwriter Joe Persinger has released a new 10-track album entitled \u201cOld Sad Songs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Persinger hastened to explain that all the songs are not old or sad. \u201cThat\u2019s just the name of one of my new original tunes, and it\u2019s actually very light and bouncy; not sad at all. It focuses on the question of whether only a sad song can touch a listener emotionally, addressing both sides of that debate. Very tongue-in-cheek.\u201d<\/p>\n

There are sad songs, however, including \u201cGive My Love to Marie,\u201d the story of an East Tennessee coal miner struggling with black lung disease. It was written by an Oklahoma folksinger, James Talley, whose recording of it was released in 1976.<\/p>\n

An unusual selection is called \u201cDeath of the Last Stripper\u201d and was written by Texas musician Terry Allen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI heard him sing it on \u2018Austin City Limits,\u2019 and I thought, \u2018Boy, that\u2019s really dramatic \u2014 I need to learn that!\u2019\u201d Persinger said.<\/p>\n

Another original song by Persinger is \u201cWhen Midnight Comes Around,\u201d a very traditional country ballad that features Grammy winning fiddler Michael Cleveland and multi-instrumentalist Brian Leaver.<\/p>\n

Persinger and his longtime singing buddy Curt Kovener provide their version of a Bellamy Brothers tune, \u201cNo Country Music for Old Men,\u201d lamenting the passing of many legendary country artists in recent years.<\/p>\n

Other tracks are Persinger\u2019s take on classic folk songs by some of his favorite artists, including Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen.<\/p>\n

Physical CD\u2019s are available at 13th<\/sup> Floor Music on Chestnut St. in downtown Seymour and at Family Drug in Brownstown. You can request a signed copy by mail by contacting Persinger directly at facebook.com\/allthosesongs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Digital downloads of the full album or individual tracks are available at josephfpersinger.bandcamp.com.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source crothersvilletimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jackson County-based folksinger and songwriter Joe Persinger has released a new 10-track album entitled \u201cOld Sad Songs.\u201d\u00a0 Persinger hastened to explain that all the songs are not old or sad. \u201cThat\u2019s just the name of one of my new original tunes, and it\u2019s actually very light and bouncy; not sad at all. It focuses on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045971\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}