{"id":12402,"date":"2024-01-06T20:45:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12402"},"modified":"2024-01-06T20:46:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T09:46:23","slug":"trombone-shorty-on-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/?p=12402","title":{"rendered":"Trombone Shorty on writer&#8217;s block"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sometimes, I\u2019ll work through it, and sometimes, you know, you might have to make a couple of test bottles or test wines, and it helps you get closer.&nbsp; But if I don\u2019t stop, I might get on the machine here and make five tracks, but I know that they\u2019re not really worth anything.&nbsp; I\u2019m just working through it to emotionally open up the bigger picture.&nbsp; So, when I get to the stop, I just keep making things.&nbsp; It may be a track that has two notes, and there may not be anything but the hi-hat pattern I\u2019m proud of, man.&nbsp; I might be like, \u201cOh, you know what?&nbsp; Let\u2019s erase everything else, and let\u2019s build around this.\u201d&nbsp;<br><br>Or, ultimately, I just wait.&nbsp; I try to work through it most times, but if I can\u2019t get anywhere, I just wait, and I sit in quietness, and I ride in the car with no music or I walk down the street.&nbsp; The streetcar may be coming by, and the screeching might spark something.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<cite>Trombone Shorty (Troy Andrews)<br><br><em>Blending Jazz &amp; Wine featuring Trombone Shorty &amp; Winemaker Christopher Carpenter<\/em> [online video], Cardinale Winery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w27bZF4XIIE\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" class=\"rank-math-link\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=w27bZF4XIIE<\/a>, (accessed 6 January 2024).\u00a0<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, I\u2019ll work through it, and sometimes, you know, you might have to make a couple of test bottles or test wines, and it helps you get closer.&nbsp; But if I don\u2019t stop, I might get on the machine here and make five tracks, but I know that they\u2019re not really worth anything.&nbsp; I\u2019m just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[776,1625,1626],"class_list":["post-12402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-creative-process","tag-creative-process","tag-trombone-shorty","tag-writers-block"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12402"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12404,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12402\/revisions\/12404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wedgebillmusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}