{"id":126709,"date":"2023-02-27T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-27T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=126709"},"modified":"2023-02-22T14:04:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T20:04:16","slug":"john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-live-music-on-the-square-in-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/john-cofields-photo-of-the-week-live-music-on-the-square-in-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"John Cofield\u2019s Photo of the Week: \u201cLive Music on The Square in 1979\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Those never-to-be-forgotten <strong>Oxford<\/strong> 80s days were hosted by a cast of characters we&#8217;re not likely to ever see pass this way again. \u2014<strong>John Cofield<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Buried deep in my album is a photograph from the hot summer of 1979, of the boys playing music on a flatbed trailer. We appear to be laying down some pretty hot licks, going for the big $100 purse in the band contest on the Oxford square. Old John Bradley is thumping the stand-up bass; Mr. Cragin Knox frails the banjo. Randy Cross, staring off into the flawless summer sky, is on rhythm guitar; the immortal L. W. Thomas is playing lead, and I am sawing on the fiddle.\u00a0Our faces are solemn masks, the de rigueur expression of the old-time string band. WOOR Radio is flashing us out over the airwaves; the shirt-sleeved judges\u00a0lean on their elbows; and in the foreground, Mr. Jack Cofield himself is snapping our picture as if we\u00a0were very big dogs indeed.&#8221;\u00a0\u2014<strong>Howard Bahr<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>Southern Living<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-22-JohnCofield-HowardBahr.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-22-JohnCofield-HowardBahr.jpg?resize=640%2C422\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126710\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-22-JohnCofield-HowardBahr.jpg?w=828&amp;ssl=1 828w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-22-JohnCofield-HowardBahr.jpg?resize=300%2C198&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-22-JohnCofield-HowardBahr.jpg?resize=768%2C506&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those never-to-be-forgotten Oxford 80s days were hosted by a cast of characters we&#8217;re not likely to ever see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123475,"featured_media":126710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[23706],"tags":[24395,8299,24038,17093,24032,5,4,24396,3580,24397],"class_list":["post-126709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-john-cofield","tag-cragin-knox","tag-howard-bahr","tag-jack-cofield","tag-john-bradley","tag-l-w-thomas-2","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-randy-cross","tag-southern-living","tag-woor-radio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023-02-22-JohnCofield-HowardBahr.jpg?fit=828%2C546&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}