{"id":808110,"date":"2020-06-05T08:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=1010633"},"modified":"2020-06-05T08:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T14:21:36","slug":"johnny-irion-recruits-jeff-bridges-for-ravi-shankar-tribute-song-inside-the-endless-om","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/johnny-irion-recruits-jeff-bridges-for-ravi-shankar-tribute-song-inside-the-endless-om\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Irion Recruits Jeff Bridges for Ravi Shankar Tribute Song \u2018Inside the Endless Om\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/shutterstock_editorial_10296438a.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ravi-shankar\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ravi-shankar\" data-tag=\"ravi-shankar\">Ravi Shankar<\/a>, the Indian composer, sitar musician, and collaborator of artists like George Harrison. In honor of the milestone, folk-rock singer Johnny Irion has assembled a group of all-stars to record a new song for Shankar, \u201cInside the Endless Om.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Written by Irion and songwriter John Goodwin, the cosmic journey features contributions from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jeff-bridges\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jeff-bridges\" data-tag=\"jeff-bridges\">Jeff Bridges<\/a>, Stone Temple Pilots\u2019 Robert DeLeo, Wilco\u2019s Mikael Jorgensen, Tim Bluhm, and Alan Kozlowski, a student of Shankar\u2019s. All of the musicians recorded their parts remotely in accordance with social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was Alan who heard the vibe of \u2018Inside the Endless Om\u2019 in its infancy,\u201d Irion says in a statement. \u201cJust the guitar hook and melody, and encouraged me to finish it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInside the Endless Om\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blackwing602.com\/pages\/inside-the-endless-om\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">will be released<\/a> digitally and on limited-edition vinyl via Blackwing Music, the record label of the seminal pencil company. Blackwing is also releasing a special Shankar pencil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople scratch their heads when they hear a company known for pencil making has its own record label,\u201d says Grant Christensen, Blackwing\u2019s managing director, \u201cbut our vision has always been to inspire creative expression, and support deserving artists, like Johnny, whose work does the same.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Irion has been on a creative streak these past few months, and recorded and released his own version of the German Sixties hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/johnny-irion-german-pop-song-984295\/\">\u201cMarmor, Stein und Eisen bricht\u201d<\/a> in April.<\/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\/johnny-irion-ravi-shankar-song-inside-endless-om-1010633\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ravi Shankar, the Indian composer, sitar musician, and collaborator of artists like George Harrison. In honor of the milestone, folk-rock singer Johnny Irion has assembled a group of all-stars to record a new song for Shankar, \u201cInside the Endless Om.\u201d Written by Irion and songwriter [&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-808110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-07 04:38:46","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\/808110","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=808110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}