{"id":10932,"date":"2013-09-13T10:27:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:27:43","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T17:27:43","slug":"kim-lenz-and-the-jaguars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/09\/kim-lenz-and-the-jaguars\/","title":{"rendered":"KIM LENZ AND THE JAGUARS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10933\" alt=\"KIM-LENZ-AND-THE-JAGUARS-M-Review-No29\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KIM-LENZ-AND-THE-JAGUARS-M-Review-No29.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KIM-LENZ-AND-THE-JAGUARS-M-Review-No29.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/KIM-LENZ-AND-THE-JAGUARS-M-Review-No29-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>KIM LENZ AND THE JAGUARS<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><b><i>Follow Me<\/i><\/b><\/h1>\n<p>kimlenz.com<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy enough to make a passable rockabilly record. Every city has a few guys and gals who slap doghouse fiddles and set fire to Gretsch fretboards, and let\u2019s face it, penning neo-go-cat-go rave-ups is more pompadour sculpting than it is brain surgery. One way to stand out is to prop a pretty girl behind the vintage chrome microphone, but to go from Joanie B. Goode to Joanie B. Great, even the foxiest rockabilly vixen needs heart and soul and humor. That\u2019s why Kim Lenz is a genre superstar.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving on the heels of some personal setbacks\u2014Lenz recently discovered she was adopted and lost bandmate Nick Curran to cancer\u2014<i>Follow Me<\/i> is sad, silly, saucy and soulful. The disc is fat with fasties, but Lenz hints at her pain on tracks like \u201cDeejay,\u201d a noirish ballad whose twilight-twang guitar and barroom piano are just campy enough to keep things light. On \u201cGhost of You,\u201d she makes like a burlesque stripper as she dresses down an ex. During the piano solo, you can picture her removing opera gloves one finger at a time, easing real sorrow by putting on a real-gone show.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIM LENZ AND THE JAGUARS Follow Me kimlenz.com It\u2019s easy enough to make a passable rockabilly record. Every city has a few guys and gals who slap doghouse fiddles and set fire to Gretsch fretboards, and let\u2019s face it, penning neo-go-cat-go rave-ups is more pompadour sculpting than it is brain surgery. One way to stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,6005,10159,7093,7166,7167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10935,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions\/10935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}