{"id":30537,"date":"2024-10-05T18:04:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-sings-r-e-m-songs-with-jason-isbell-at-harris-walz-rally-in-pittsburgh\/"},"modified":"2024-10-05T18:04:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-05T18:04:49","slug":"michael-stipe-sings-r-e-m-songs-with-jason-isbell-at-harris-walz-rally-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-sings-r-e-m-songs-with-jason-isbell-at-harris-walz-rally-in-pittsburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Stipe sings R.E.M. songs with Jason Isbell at Harris\/Walz rally in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-05\/Getty_MichaelStipe_100324.jpg\" alt><figcaption>L. Busacca\/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>R.E.M.<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Michael Stipe<\/strong> performed with <strong>Jason Isbell<\/strong>\u00a0Friday at a\u00a0get out the vote rally in Pittsburgh for Vice President <strong>Kamala Harris<\/strong> and Governor <strong>Tim Walz<\/strong>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Video posted to social media shows the\u00a0duo\u00a0being introduced by Harris\u2019 husband, Second Gentleman <strong>Doug Emhoff<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>who admitted he was \u201cgeeking out\u201d about getting to introduce the pair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cIt\u2019s been awhile since I\u2019ve sung these songs, 16 years in fact,\u201d Stipe told the crowd. \u201cbut I\u2019m really happy to be here with Jason and with the soon-to-be-first-ever First Gentleman of the United States of America.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Stipe and Isbell\u00a0then teamed up for a four-song acoustic set that included the R.E.M. classics \u201cThe One I Love\u201d and \u201cDriver 8,\u201d along with Isbell\u2019s tunes \u201cTraveling Alone\u201d and \u201cHope the High Road,\u201d with Isbell playing guitar throughout.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The performance was Stipe\u2019s first time singing an R.E.M. song\u00a0since the band&#8217;s surprise\u00a0performance at their Songwriters Hall of Fame induction in June: At that event, the band played \u201cLosing My Religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L. Busacca\/Getty Images for Songwriters Hall Of Fame R.E.M.\u2019s Michael Stipe performed with Jason Isbell\u00a0Friday at a\u00a0get out the vote rally in Pittsburgh for Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz.\u00a0 Video posted to social media shows the\u00a0duo\u00a0being introduced by Harris\u2019 husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff,\u00a0who admitted he was<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/michael-stipe-sings-r-e-m-songs-with-jason-isbell-at-harris-walz-rally-in-pittsburgh\/\">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":[50,42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537"}],"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=30537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}