{"id":2441390,"date":"2019-03-06T07:45:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=803898"},"modified":"2019-03-06T07:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T14:45:42","slug":"watch-hozier-honor-jazz-greats-with-almost-sweet-music-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-hozier-honor-jazz-greats-with-almost-sweet-music-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Hozier Honor Jazz Greats With \u2018Almost (Sweet Music)\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Screen-Shot-2019-03-06-at-9.18.05-AM-11.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hozier\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hozier\" data-tag=\"hozier\">Hozier<\/a> delivered a snappy rendition of \u201cAlmost (Sweet Music)\u201d on <em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert\/\" id=\"auto-tag_late-show-with-stephen-colbert\" data-tag=\"late-show-with-stephen-colbert\">Late Show With Stephen Colbert<\/a><\/em> Tuesday. The stripped-down cut is centered around prickly guitar lines and an energetic beat of claps and snaps that steadily builds to a soulful peak tinged with organ and choral vocals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAlmost\u201d is a tender love song that also finds Hozier paying homage to an array of jazz greats in his lyrics: \u201cThe numbered lovers of Duke Ellington,\u201d he sings, \u201cDo I owe each kiss to lip and cheek as soft as Chet can sing\/Let\u2019s get lost and let the good times roll.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAlmost\u201d appears on Hozier\u2019s new album, <em>Wasteland, Baby!,<\/em> which the Irish musician released earlier this month. The album follows Hozier\u2019s 2018 EP, <em>Nina Cried Power<\/em> \u2013 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/hozier-on-how-political-insanity-nina-simones-example-fueled-his-new-music-714478\/\">featured Mavis Staples<\/a> on the title track \u2013 and his breakout self-titled debut, which arrived in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hozier will embark on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hozier-2019-north-american-tour-767010\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of <em>Wasteland, Baby!<\/em> this weekend. The 26-date trek kicks off March 10th in Buffalo, New York and wraps April 14th in Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hozier-almost-sweet-music-perform-colbert-803898\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hozier delivered a snappy rendition of \u201cAlmost (Sweet Music)\u201d on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Tuesday. The stripped-down cut is centered around prickly guitar lines and an energetic beat of claps and snaps that steadily builds to a soulful peak tinged with organ and choral vocals. \u201cAlmost\u201d is a tender love song that also [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2441390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 02:27:39","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}