{"id":8807,"date":"2013-06-15T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=8807"},"modified":"2013-06-15T15:56:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T22:56:39","slug":"americana-music-heritage-in-city-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/06\/15\/americana-music-heritage-in-city-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"Americana Music Heritage in City Heights&#8217; Black Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Old-Time Rock Music<\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>The History in American Music Runs Deep at The Black Cat Bar<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8808\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-and-his-dad.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-and-his-dad.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"In City Heights at The Black Cat bar with club proprietor Matthew Parker and his father Linton, holding the 1962 slide guitar once owned by Matt&#039;s grandfather.\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-8808\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-and-his-dad.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-and-his-dad.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In City Heights at The Black Cat bar with club proprietor Matthew Parker and his father Linton, holding the 1962 slide guitar once owned by Matt&#8217;s grandfather.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8810\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-with-trailduster.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-with-trailduster.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"Matt Parker on stage last weekend at The Black Cat with Trailduster, Matthew Strachota&#039;s Americana-style band. The two of them were members of Bartender&#039;s Bible and had not played together in two and a half years before this set.\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-8810\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-with-trailduster.jpg?w=960&amp;ssl=1 960w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-matt-with-trailduster.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matt Parker on stage last weekend at The Black Cat with Trailduster, Matthew Strachota&#8217;s Americana-style band. The two of them were members of Bartender&#8217;s Bible and had not played together in two and a half years before this set.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8815\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8815\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-black-cat-neon-sign.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-black-cat-neon-sign.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"The Black Cat Bat is on University Avenue in City Heights, west of Fairmont Avenue and north of the freeway 15 offramp. If you have not driven by there yet it&#039;s in a historic 1920&#039;s building that was originally the site of San Diego's second Bank of America. This shot is of the neon sign in the window, from inside and over the stage in between bands.\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-8815\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-black-cat-neon-sign.jpg?w=643&amp;ssl=1 643w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bc-black-cat-neon-sign.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 643px) 100vw, 643px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8815\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Black Cat Bat is on University Avenue in City Heights, west of Fairmont Avenue and north of the freeway 15 offramp. If you have not driven by there yet it&#8217;s in a historic 1920&#8217;s building that was originally the site of San Diego&#8217;s second Bank of America. This shot is of the neon sign in the window, from inside and over the stage in between bands.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old-Time Rock Music Tweet The History in American Music Runs Deep at The Black Cat Bar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14219,"url":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2017\/01\/11\/14219\/","url_meta":{"origin":8807,"position":0},"title":"Beer Snob Rob&#8217;s beer review: &#8220;Agave Maria&#8221; from Lost Abbey","author":"Reviewer Rob","date":"January 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"[Beer Snob Rob] review: \"Agave Maria\" from Lost Abbey by Reviewer Rob So I was at this cozy little neighborhood bar called Live Wire tonight, having an arty short glass of \"Agave Maria\" (like \"Ave Maria\", the song?) from Lost Abbey brewery. 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