{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Audius","provider_url":"https://audius.co","title":"Living In Vain (For Philip Lithman) by Unseen Victor • Audius","description":"So, an English guitarist falls in love with the Blues. Sounds like the most awful thing ever, right? Philip \"Snakefinger\" Lithman approached the situation with real imagination. He created a style of playing somewhere between Monk and the brevity of Post-Punk/New Wave. It's not greatly imitated today. Marc Ribot maybe? That's a shame. I'm not qualified to play his songs - so I did it anyway. \n\nYou should realize that, as a teenager, I had a hard-won stack of every Ralph Records release. Not so much The Residents as Tuxedomoon, Fred Frith and the Art Bears, Yello, Renaldo and the Loaf, The Club Foot Orchestra and, of course, Snakefinger. Later, as an adult, I got to see Snakefinger live a few times and even had a nice time hanging out with Richard Marriott of The Club Foot Orchestra.","html":"<iframe src=\"https://audius.co/embed/track/ZbjK2Pg?flavor=card\" width=\"100%\" height=\"480\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" style=\"border: none;\"></iframe>","width":500,"height":480,"thumbnail_url":"https://audius-content-1.figment.io/content/01KEAEZ7P37HE434J40DTE4SDD/480x480.jpg","thumbnail_width":480,"thumbnail_height":480,"author_name":"Unseen Victor","author_url":"https://audius.co/bucktooth","cache_age":3600}