{"id":20306,"date":"2021-06-16T15:13:47","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=20306"},"modified":"2021-06-23T15:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T19:16:14","slug":"interview-ronnie-baker-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/interview-ronnie-baker-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Ronnie Baker Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"position: relative; padding-top: max(60%,326px); height: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position: absolute; border: none; width: 100%; height: 100%; left: 0; right: 0; top: 0; bottom: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/e.issuu.com\/embed.html?d=summerguide_2021&amp;pageNumber=138&amp;u=portlandmagazine\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" sandbox=\"allow-top-navigation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-downloads allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s going to surprise you July 11.<\/p>\n<p>By Colin W. Sargent<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to hearing you at the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Rockland on July 11. You know you\u2019ll be ducking seagulls because you\u2019ll be playing on the public landing. Any other considerations?<br \/>\nNot really. Enthusiastic crowds. That\u2019s all I plan for.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever thought of coming to your performance in Maine by train?<br \/>\nNo\u2014we\u2019re usually in a bus or a van or flying. One time after playing at the Blues Festival in Maine, I finished my gig and we started driving south to a show in Nantasket, near Hull, Massachusetts. On the way we caught a flat. Luckily my bus had dual wheels in back. I got the flat fixed. Two miles later we caught another flat. I knew I was going to be late to play at The C Note in Nantasket Beach. I had to call my manager. How could I tell him I\u2019d had two flats? I could just hear him: Sure, Ronnie. If you don\u2019t want to do the show, just tell me. I drove from Maine to Nantasket on three wheels.<br \/>\nBy the time we got there, a quarter of the people had left. I said, \u201cJust let me play for the people who are here\u2014for free.\u201d Some of them I see later still remember that night. We tried to make it count.<\/p>\n<p><em>See the full story\u00a0in the digital magazine above.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-20308\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin.jpg\" alt=\"ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin-200x105.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/ronnie-baker-brooks-by-paul_natkin-620x326.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazz royalty at North Atlantic Blues Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20310,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20306\/revisions\/20310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}