{"id":11092,"date":"2013-10-28T19:27:52","date_gmt":"2013-10-29T02:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=11092"},"modified":"2013-10-28T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T02:28:07","slug":"lee-dewyze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/10\/lee-dewyze\/","title":{"rendered":"LEE DEWYZE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11093\" alt=\"Lee-Dewyze-Issue-No29\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lee-Dewyze-Issue-No29.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lee-Dewyze-Issue-No29.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Lee-Dewyze-Issue-No29-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>LEE DEWYZE<\/h1>\n<p><b>HOMETOWN:<\/b> Chicago, Ill.<br \/>\n<b>INFLUENCES:<\/b> Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, \u00a0 Simon and Garfunkel<br \/>\n<b>ALBUM:<\/b> <i>Frames<\/i>, out now<br \/>\n<b>WEBSITE:<\/b> leedewyzeofficial.com<\/p>\n<p>Lee DeWyze, winner of 2010\u2019s <i>American Idol<\/i>,\u00a0recorded his new album, <i>Frames<\/i>, with one goal in mind. \u201cI wanted to take it back to what I\u2019m really about, which is writing emotionally charged, meaningful songs,\u201d he says. \u201cIt feels really good to get back to the grass roots of what I\u2019m about.\u201d Building off his reality-show success, DeWyze, 27, has been able to establish himself as a writer and multi-instrumentalist who has no interest following trends. \u201cIt\u2019s like that lane is open now,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m finally in the lane I belong in, and I feel like I can just go.\u201d In fact, DeWyze played piano, guitar, banjo, mandolin and drums during the recording sessions. \u201cI\u2019ve never felt a connection with my music more than I do right now,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m excited for people to hear it because I know what I\u2019m doing is honest and authentic. There may be pressure, but\u00a0there are definitely no regrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEE DEWYZE HOMETOWN: Chicago, Ill. INFLUENCES: Cat Stevens, Kris Kristofferson, \u00a0 Simon and Garfunkel ALBUM: Frames, out now WEBSITE: leedewyzeofficial.com Lee DeWyze, winner of 2010\u2019s American Idol,\u00a0recorded his new album, Frames, with one goal in mind. \u201cI wanted to take it back to what I\u2019m really about, which is writing emotionally charged, meaningful songs,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[7093,7257],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092"}],"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=11092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11095,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11092\/revisions\/11095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}