{"id":5766,"date":"2022-10-19T16:20:13","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2022-10-19T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T15:20:52","slug":"herman-hitson-let-the-gods-sing-video-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=5766","title":{"rendered":"Herman Hitson &#8216;Let The Gods Sing&#8217; \u2013 Video Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vintage singer HERMAN HITSON&#8217;s title track from his new album of\u00a0psychedelic-inspired soul,\u00a0<em>Let The Gods Sing\u00a0<\/em>(Big Legal Mess)<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Herman Hitson - Let The Gods Sing (Official Music Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0zfvkkJ8TN8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hitson has lived a wild life. Cousin of Dave Prater (of Sam &amp; Dave), he grew up sharecropping in Georgia; grieved his cousin after his murder by white supremacists, started a doo-wop band, toured the chitlin circuit with a who\u2019s who of headliners, befriended and collaborated with Jimi Hendrix, hung with Mohammad Ali, worked at the same radio station where Martin Luther King, Jr. used to speak on the air, fell into acid and heroin, converted to The Nation Of Islam, and released a series of \u201cmemorable 45s\u201d (Wax Poetics) through the \u201860s and \u201870s. More recently, he has performed at the Ponderosa Stomp, joined the Music Maker Foundation artist roster, and last year hit the stage at Telluride Blues &amp; Brews. Order the album via <a href=\"https:\/\/biglegalmessrecords.com\/products\/let-the-gods-sing\">Big Legal Mess<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"synved-social-container synved-social-container-share\"><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F5766&#038;t=Herman%20Hitson%20%E2%80%98Let%20The%20Gods%20Sing%E2%80%99%20%E2%80%93%20Video%20Premiere&#038;s=100&#038;p&#091;url&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F5766&#038;p&#091;images&#093;&#091;0&#093;=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F10%2FHermon-Hitson.jpeg&#038;p&#091;title&#093;=Herman%20Hitson%20%E2%80%98Let%20The%20Gods%20Sing%E2%80%99%20%E2%80%93%20Video%20Premiere\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-twitter nolightbox\" data-provider=\"twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F5766&#038;text=New%20post%20on%20our%20site\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/twitter.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-24 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Herman%20Hitson%20%E2%80%98Let%20The%20Gods%20Sing%E2%80%99%20%E2%80%93%20Video%20Premiere&#038;body=New%20post%20on%20our%20site:%20https%3A%2F%2Fshindig-magazine.com%2Findex.php%3Frest_route%3D%252Fwp%252Fv2%252Fposts%252F5766\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:24px;height:24px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" style=\"display: inline;width:24px;height:24px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/48x48\/mail.png\" \/><\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vintage singer HERMAN HITSON&#8217;s title track from his new album of\u00a0psychedelic-inspired soul,\u00a0Let The Gods Sing\u00a0(Big Legal Mess) &nbsp; Hitson has lived a wild life. Cousin of Dave Prater (of Sam &amp; Dave), he grew up sharecropping in Georgia; grieved his cousin after his murder by white supremacists, started a doo-wop band, toured the chitlin circuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1044],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-videos","tag-soul-music","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}