{"id":2498,"date":"2025-10-28T14:15:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2025-10-28T14:15:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:15:59","slug":"americana-from-alabama-americana-from-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/americana-from-alabama-americana-from-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Americana From Alabama &#8211; Americana From Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Songwriter David Oberman, a Birmingham native and Auburn University graduate, has a lifelong passion for music. Trained in classical piano from an early age and later a trumpet player in his high school marching band, he recently had the unique honor of conducting the Alabama Symphony during a Christmas concert. Now retired after a successful 40-year career in finance, David devotes his time to playing piano, ballroom dancing, traveling, and writing country music.\u000f\u000fThe song \u201cBaked and Buzzed\u201d originated while I was on vacation recently at the beach. I was people watching and noticed a young man sitting in his beach chair and enjoying several beers with limes. He didn\u2019t realize how red he was getting from the sun- but he was definitely having a good time! It seemed like a good beginning to a song.\u000f\u000fI wanted a Jimmy Buffet sound combined with a slant towards country. A fun danceable, singable song that might be enjoyed without a deep message. Craig Brandwein, my co-write\/producer and I had a good time writing this song. We hope others enjoy it as much as we did composing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Songwriter David Oberman, a Birmingham native and Auburn University graduate, has a lifelong passion for music. Trained in classical piano from an early age and later a trumpet player in his high school marching band, he recently had the unique honor of conducting the Alabama Symphony during a Christmas concert. Now retired after a successful &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/10\/28\/americana-from-alabama-americana-from-alabama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Americana From Alabama &#8211; Americana From Alabama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2499,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zfmcountry.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}