{"id":7620,"date":"2026-02-27T10:40:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T10:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7620"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:00:41","slug":"box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/?p=7620","title":{"rendered":"Box"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Box\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DzLesuHP3pQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/distrokid.com\/hyperfollow\/rickwesthorpe\/box?ref=release\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"202\" height=\"40\" class=\"wp-image-7591\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/group.jpg\" alt=\"Buy \/ Stream\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tune is old &#8211; back from Hare Krishna days in the 70s, but I reworked the lyrics in 1978 after a particularly disturbing dream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a curious echo of the lyrics, I found the scrap of paper with the song just before Christmas 2025. I&#8217;ve tweaked the words somewhat, but kept the meaning and feel. It was always haunting, but Phil&#8217;s saxophone has really brought it alive, and in a strange way, taken me right back to the original dream\/nightmare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When we had finished, both Phil and I felt like we anted to do more with the music. I was reluctant to tamper with what we already had &#8211; it was always a bit of a museum piece for me and it&#8217;s tight structure worked very well for me. The answer was to just lift the tune and use it for something else &#8211; a new song altogether: Dancing in Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tune is old &#8211; back from Hare Krishna days in the 70s, but I reworked the lyrics in 1978 after a particularly disturbing dream. In a curious echo of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7625,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7620\/revisions\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westsongs.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}