{"id":29451,"date":"2025-05-01T19:25:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=29451"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T19:26:25","slug":"matt-basile-hang-on-st-christopher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/?p=29451","title":{"rendered":"Matt Basile &#8211; Hang On St. Christopher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<br><p>The song &#8216;Hang On St. Christopher&#8217; is actually a cover version of the famous hit by Tom Waits but it sounds completely different when performed by Matt Basile. As the artist Matt Basile himself notes, this is not a Christian song, but rather a song about dangerous journeys and what adventures happen on the path of a brave traveler.&nbsp;<\/p><br><p>Musicaly, &#8216;Hang On St. Christopher&#8217; is a wonderful country western with its own musical arrangement where every instrument and every note is heard. Warm jazz organ and bright country guitar are wonderfully intertwined with a moving rhythm section and deep and velvety vocals. Matt Basile sings with a sense of knowledge of the business, because he also had to travel and take part in the most incredible adventures.&nbsp;<\/p><span style=\"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"><br><\/span><p><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">Matt Basile&#8217;s &#8216;Hang On St. Christopher&#8217; is a treat for country and Americana music lovers and we highly recommend listening to the track right now below on Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Hang on St. Christopher\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/0CcwJSIsuzQhnUngHmwSln?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 25, New York artist Matt Basile released his first single of the year, titled &#8216;Hang On St. Christopher&#8217;. Matt Basileis preparing to release his new record, which should be released in September, and by this time he plans to release singles from this album, and &#8216;Hang On St. Christopher&#8217; is one of them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,9],"class_list":["post-29451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-single-reviews","tag-country-rock","tag-usa"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/MB_PROMO-2-Hang_On_St_Christopher_V101.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29455,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29451\/revisions\/29455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiedockmusicblog.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}