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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Christmas Cards sent out this year included the usual \u2018<\/span>Season\u2019s Greetings<\/span><\/i>\u2019 but an added sentiment there are no emojis for:\u00a0 \u2018<\/span>Here is to a brighter 2021<\/span><\/i>.\u2019\u00a0 <\/span>Peggy James<\/b> seems to have an uncanny knack for writing music to fit my feelings – think \u2018musical emoji on demand\u2019.\u00a0 <\/span>Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music <\/b>sent<\/span> along the first 2021 single release for Peggy James, <\/span>Guardian Angel<\/b> and she has nailed it again.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>James plans to release a string of singles in 2021, culminating with a full length LP in Q3 of 2021.<\/span>. <\/span>The single Guardian Angel, releases January 15th via all digital formats on<\/span> Happy Growl Records.<\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0When <\/span>Hard Times, <\/b>\u00a0James’ last single of 2020, came our way in the fall, we likened it to musical therapy:\u00a0 just what we needed to get through the last months of the presidential campaign.\u00a0 If Hard Times found Peggy in \u2018therapist\u2019 mode, surely Guardian Angel brings out another persona –\u00a0 \u2018street preacher\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The lyrics delivered over a bed of strings state how everyone feels after the beat down of the last year.\u00a0 With the galloping drums that enter around the 1:20 mark bring you up – \u2018<\/span>Guardian Angel guide me tonight through the streets of this town\u2019.\u00a0 \u2018All I\u2019ve got left is my soul, fragile as glass, so easy to break\u2019<\/span><\/i>, isn\u2019t the downer it looks like in print. \u00a0 It is a sober realization that we need to overcome the darkness with a little help.\u00a0 The entire song\u2019s profound narrative is delivered with Peggy\u2019s angel clear voice.\u00a0 How can we feel lost in the world\u2019s struggles when we have someone like Peggy James to plead our case with a Guardian Angel?<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0There are many reasons I am looking forward to the stalled time frame of 2020 to speed up through the early months of 2021, but the release of Peggy\u2019s full length LP in Q3 vaults to the top of the list, right under \u2018vaccine\u2019 and \u2018normalizing\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Top Piece Video:\u00a0 Sorry, got around to posting this later than planned, but in the excitement of getting our dayshift on the air and kicking off this year’s Strive 4 a Safer Drive PSA campaign, I let Peggy’s magnificent new tune slip through the cracks – never too late to get a dose of ‘HOPE’!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0The Christmas Cards sent out this year included the usual \u2018Season\u2019s Greetings\u2019 but an added sentiment there are no emojis for:\u00a0 \u2018Here is to a brighter 2021.\u2019\u00a0 Peggy James seems to have an uncanny knack for writing music to fit my feelings – think \u2018musical emoji on demand\u2019.\u00a0 Gary Tanin at Daystorm Music sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11,8,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bands-musicians","category-education","category-from-the-vaults","category-new-music","category-woas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2091,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}