{"id":36426,"date":"2023-09-24T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=36426"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:35:20","slug":"eric-clapton-pays-tribute-to-willie-nelson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/eric-clapton-pays-tribute-to-willie-nelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton Pays Tribute To Willie Nelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Clapton has released a cover of the Willie Nelson hit, &#8220;Always on My Mind&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Along with the song, he dropped a video that includes a montage of photos and clips of Nelson through the years.<\/p>\n<p>The cover features guitar work by Ronnie Wood and is a collaboration with country singer Bradley Walker.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fo_YtYw_YKI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The song hit #5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned three Grammy awards in 1983. Earlier this year, Willie celebrated his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Always on My Mind&#8221; was written by Wayne Carson, Johnny Christopher and Mark James, and was first recorded by Brenda Lee and first released by Gwen McCrae. Elvis Presley was the first to have a hit with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton has released a cover of the Willie Nelson hit, &#8220;Always on My Mind&#8221;.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":30589,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4974,4975,4973,837],"class_list":["post-36426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-always-on-my-mind","tag-bradley-walker","tag-eric-clapton","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 01:07:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/eric-clapton-pays-tribute-to-willie-nelson\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36427,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36426\/revisions\/36427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}