{"id":23306,"date":"2023-02-16T19:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=23306"},"modified":"2023-02-16T10:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T15:22:27","slug":"why-chris-jason-started-playing-the-harmonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/why-chris-jason-started-playing-the-harmonica\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Chris Jason Started Playing The Harmonica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Janson has made playing the harmonica an integral part of his live shows, but he admits when he first started playing it, he was just trying to make enough money to live.<\/p>\n<p>But now, the harmonica has taken on a whole new life and a new purpose for Chris.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe truth of the matter is, I was playing downtown at Tootsie\u2019s, and I was singin\u2019 and playing guitar my first year in town, and I was making okay tips. I was gettin\u2019 by. But I thought, what can I do to up my game? So I picked up a harmonica and learned it, and I took it in the very next day to Tootsies and my tips doubled. And the next day it\u2019s like they tripled, and then they quadrupled. And I was like damn, this is workin\u2019. So I just did it for the money. But then you know like, I\u2019m not a good lead guitar player, I\u2019m not a good lead piano player or anything, but I\u2019ve always been a fan of like boogie-woogie music, like Jerry Lee Lewis. And so I can, in my head, I can play those parts on a harmonica, which I know it doesn\u2019t make any sense, but in my head, I\u2019d shut my eyes and turn it into a different instrument, and just play, which takes on a whole new life for the harmonica.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CmDOb0ZjdKr\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Janson has made playing the harmonica an integral part of his live shows, but he admits when he first started playing it, he was just trying to make enough money to live.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[554,4511,62],"class_list":["post-23306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-chris-janson","tag-harmonica","tag-nashville"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 22:13:39","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/02\/why-chris-jason-started-playing-the-harmonica\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}