{"id":2252,"date":"2008-09-15T11:44:48","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/attend-a-sam-phillips-concert.html"},"modified":"2008-09-15T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T11:44:48","slug":"attend-a-sam-phillips-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/attend-a-sam-phillips-concert.html","title":{"rendered":"Attend a Sam Phillips Concert for Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"samphillipspicforic.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/import\/imgs\/samphillipspicforic.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right;margin: 0 0 20px 20px\" \/><\/span>Though I am <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/idolchatter\/2008\/05\/sam-phillips-dont-do-anything.html\" target=\"_blank\">a huge fan<\/a>, I have never made it to a Sam Phillips concert&#8211;not even when she played a Christian college a few hours away from me last week&#8211;but Monday night I will have a chance and I urge anyone who is not familiar with her amazing music to join me.<br \/>\nNPR will be streaming an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=94503430\" target=\"_blank\">entire Sam Phillips concert<\/a> tonight on the web as part of their &#8220;All Songs Considered&#8221; music series. At approximately 8:30 p.m. EST Phillips will be performing live from a venue in Annapolis, Maryland, and will be singing many of the songs off of her latest release, as well as some of her older works.<br \/>\nNPR also is featuring a brief interview with the singer on their website in which she expresses that  her artistic influences still include religion&#8211; as well as 1950s and 60s advertisements and explains her career this way: &#8220;At this point, I am much more interested in the things that are bigger than TV, smaller than mass culture.&#8221;<br \/>\nNow, is anyone out there <em>still<\/em> wondering why I am such a fan?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though I am a huge fan, I have never made it to a Sam Phillips concert&#8211;not even when she played a Christian college a few hours away from me last week&#8211;but Monday night I will have a chance and I urge anyone who is not familiar with her amazing music to join me. NPR will&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","category-music"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Attend a Sam Phillips Concert for Free!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2008\/09\/attend-a-sam-phillips-concert.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Attend a Sam Phillips Concert for Free!\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Though I am a huge fan, I have never made it to a Sam Phillips concert&#8211;not even when she played a Christian college a few hours away from me last week&#8211;but Monday night I will have a chance and I urge anyone who is not familiar with her amazing music to join me. 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