{"id":165,"date":"2008-06-01T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T22:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2008-06-01T10:29:36","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T22:29:36","slug":"was-not-was-returns-to-its-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Was (Not Was) returns to its roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don Was positively flourished in the years following his band&#8217;s demise.<br \/>\nWas (Not Was), the open-ended musical collective with Detroit roots, had called it quits in 1992, launching Was into a career as one of music&#8217;s most in-demand studio producers. The roll call of names became towering: The Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan. Bonnie Raitt. Willie Nelson. Randy Newman.<\/p>\n<p>But amid the creative flowering, the man born Don Fagenson found himself unable to muster the will to write. Daunted by the immense talent now surrounding him, Was caught himself thinking, &#8220;What&#8217;s the point? These guys are so much better at this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was during a conversation with country icon Nelson that Was had his epiphany: Willie Nelson might be Willie Nelson, but Don Was was Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>Interview with the &#8220;Brothers&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20080530\/GCLIVE01\/305300027\/1075\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coasting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don Was positively flourished in the years following his band&#8217;s demise. Was (Not Was), the open-ended musical collective with Detroit roots, had called it quits in 1992, launching Was into a career as one of music&#8217;s most in-demand studio producers. The roll call of names became towering: The Rolling Stones. Bob Dylan. Bonnie Raitt. Willie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}