{"id":495,"date":"2008-02-29T06:41:03","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/soft-jazz-folk-blue-moon-white-and-miller-lite\/"},"modified":"2008-02-29T06:41:03","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T13:41:03","slug":"soft-jazz-folk-blue-moon-white-and-miller-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/soft-jazz-folk-blue-moon-white-and-miller-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft jazz, folk, Blue Moon White and Miller Lite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joesixpack.net\/currentColumn.htm\">Don Russell compares<\/a> the <strong>Miller Lite Brewers Collection<\/strong> to Kenny G.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve previously <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/blue-moon-peter-paul-mary-or-trini-lopez\/\">written something similar<\/a> about <strong>Coors Blue Moon White Ale<\/strong> and Peter, Paul &#038; Mary.<\/p>\n<p>The difference would be that I was arguing Peter Paul &#038; Mary are authentic, and Don is making no such case for Kenny G. Just that his stuff sells. So a more parallel analogy would be to pick an &#8220;folk&#8221; artist similar to Miller Lite Wheat since the press material compares it to Blue Moon. Perhaps Trini &#8220;If I Had a Hammer&#8221; Lopez. (He&#8217;s in the Latin Music Hall of Fame, but what the heck was he doing singing Pete Seeger&#8217;s stuff?)<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s not the question of the day.<\/p>\n<p>The question is what music genre does that leave for Anheuser-Busch&#8217;s <strong>Shock Top Belgian White<\/strong>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Don Russell compares the Miller Lite Brewers Collection to Kenny G. I&#8217;ve previously written something similar about Coors Blue Moon White Ale and Peter, Paul &#038; Mary. The difference would be that I was arguing Peter Paul &#038; Mary are authentic, and Don is making no such case for Kenny G. Just that his &#8230; <a title=\"Soft jazz, folk, Blue Moon White and Miller Lite\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/soft-jazz-folk-blue-moon-white-and-miller-lite\/\" aria-label=\"More on Soft jazz, folk, Blue Moon White and Miller Lite\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}