{"id":807585,"date":"2020-05-19T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1002160"},"modified":"2020-05-19T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T12:22:24","slug":"billy-corgan-delivers-acoustic-rendition-of-hard-times-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/billy-corgan-delivers-acoustic-rendition-of-hard-times-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Corgan Delivers Acoustic Rendition of \u2018Hard Times\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/billy-corgan-jimmy-fallon.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/smashing-pumpkins\/\" id=\"auto-tag_smashing-pumpkins\" data-tag=\"smashing-pumpkins\">Smashing Pumpkins<\/a>\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billy-corgan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billy-corgan\" data-tag=\"billy-corgan\">Billy Corgan<\/a> shared a stripped-down performance of his solo song \u201cHard Times\u201d on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The original version of the song, from Corgan\u2019s 2019 record <em>Cotillions<\/em>, is a lonesome but lush country tune that lends itself nicely to a fully acoustic rendition. And the lyrics are, of course, particularly relevant at this moment. On <em>The Tonight Show<\/em>, Corgan picked up the pace of his strumming a bit as he moved effortlessly through the song\u2019s grandiose verses to reach the simple but potent hook: \u201cAlbion sweeps limb from limb\/As plucked by poison quill\/But don\u2019t stand still\/It\u2019s hard, it\u2019s hard times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Corgan released <em>Cotillions<\/em> last November. The record followed his 2017 solo effort <em>Ogilala<\/em>, as well as the Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 2018 record, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-smashing-pumpkins-shiny-and-oh-so-bright-vol-1-lp-no-past-no-future-no-sun-is-infinite-sad-756290\/\">Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 \/ LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun<\/a>.<\/em> The band was set to embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/smashing-pumpkins-spring-2020-tour-960450\/\">North American tour<\/a> in April that would\u2019ve served as a sequel of sorts to their 1993 Rock Invasion run, although those dates have since been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/smashingpumpkins\/posts\/10158549788967642\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">postponed until October<\/a> because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3>Popular on Rolling Stone<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billy-corgan-hard-times-acoustic-jimmy-fallon-tonight-show-1002160\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smashing Pumpkins\u2019 Billy Corgan shared a stripped-down performance of his solo song \u201cHard Times\u201d on The Tonight Show Monday. The original version of the song, from Corgan\u2019s 2019 record Cotillions, is a lonesome but lush country tune that lends itself nicely to a fully acoustic rendition. And the lyrics are, of course, particularly relevant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 18:19:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}