{"id":29360,"date":"2024-04-24T21:02:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-oates-covers-john-prines-long-monday-for-new-album-reunion\/"},"modified":"2024-04-24T21:02:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T21:02:33","slug":"john-oates-covers-john-prines-long-monday-for-new-album-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-oates-covers-john-prines-long-monday-for-new-album-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oates covers John Prine\u2019s \u201cLong Monday\u201d for new album &#8216;Reunion&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-24\/M_JohnOates_040324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Photo by Jason Lee Denton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>John Oates<\/strong> is giving fans another preview of his upcoming solo album, <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reunion<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, which drops May 17.\u00a0The singer has released his cover of the <strong>John Prine<\/strong> track \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SzSFNmO2cBY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Long Monday<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">,\u201d featuring <strong>Sierra Hull<\/strong> on mandolin.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI chose to record \u2018Long Monday\u2019 due to the evocative nature and down-to-earth beauty of the song\u2019s story,\u201d Oates shares. \u201cI think it\u2019s important to respect a songwriter\u2019s work. Because of that I wanted to remain faithful to the lyrics and melody while, at the same time, making it my own as far as the arrangement.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">You can listen to \u201cLong Monday\u201d now via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/longmonday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>digital outlets<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Oates\u00a0previously performed \u201cLong Monday\u201d at\u00a0an October concert at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville celebrating what would have been Prine&#8217;s 77th birthday. Oates tells ABC Audio the performance inspired him to record the tune.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI&#8217;ve just been a huge fan of his forever because he&#8217;s one of America&#8217;s greatest songwriters,\u201d John says of Prine. \u201cI chose &#8216;Long Monday&#8217; cause I think it&#8217;s a beautiful song. I rearranged it in my own style and, and it just seemed to work. And I thought, well, I just need to record this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">John Oates\u2019 <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Reunion<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\"> is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/orcd.co\/reunionalbum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>available for preorder<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span class=\"s1\"> now.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SzSFNmO2cBY\" title=\"Long Monday\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Jason Lee Denton John Oates is giving fans another preview of his upcoming solo album, Reunion, which drops May 17.\u00a0The singer has released his cover of the John Prine track \u201cLong Monday,\u201d featuring Sierra Hull on mandolin.\u00a0 \u201cI chose to record \u2018Long Monday\u2019 due to the evocative nature<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/john-oates-covers-john-prines-long-monday-for-new-album-reunion\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}