{"id":14427,"date":"2015-05-18T14:15:26","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=14427"},"modified":"2015-05-18T14:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T21:15:26","slug":"joel-rafael-old-portland-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2015\/05\/joel-rafael-old-portland-town\/","title":{"rendered":"JOEL RAFAEL \u201cOld Portland Town\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5O27rnFeH2A\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h1>JOEL RAFAEL \u201cOld Portland Town\u201d<\/h1>\n<p>Critically acclaimed, California songwriter and seminal folk artist Joel Rafael releases his ninth album today,\u00a0<em>Baladista<\/em>, on Inside Recordings. Inside Recordings, a label created by Jackson Browne and his management team, is distributed worldwide by Alternative Distribution Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoel Rafael\u2019s songs are filled with passion and compassion,\u201d says Jackson Browne. \u201cPassion for social justice, and compassion &#8211; for those among us who have to struggle for a place at the table of American prosperity. His voice is unmistakably his own, big, warm and strong, and a conductor for the human emotions that connect us all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album\u2019s first single and video, \u201cOld Portland Town,\u201d tells the tale of Rafael\u2019s experience being arrested in Portland as part of a city-wide sweep of the entire underground. He had migrated there from Los Angeles with a group of outlaws, artists, writers and mystics in an effort to avoid the impending military draft.<\/p>\n<p><em>Baladista<\/em>\u00a0is available today at all normal retail outlets, including Amazon and iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOEL RAFAEL \u201cOld Portland Town\u201d Critically acclaimed, California songwriter and seminal folk artist Joel Rafael releases his ninth album today,\u00a0Baladista, on Inside Recordings. Inside Recordings, a label created by Jackson Browne and his management team, is distributed worldwide by Alternative Distribution Alliance. \u201cJoel Rafael\u2019s songs are filled with passion and compassion,\u201d says Jackson Browne. \u201cPassion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1058],"tags":[7603,7604],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427"}],"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=14427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14428,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14427\/revisions\/14428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}