{"id":1645,"date":"2011-03-04T20:12:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2011-03-04T20:12:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T03:12:18","slug":"aj-jansen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/aj-jansen\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ JANSEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AJ-JANSEN-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1646\" title=\"AJ-JANSEN-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AJ-JANSEN-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AJ-JANSEN-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/AJ-JANSEN-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>AJ JANSEN <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bars, Scars and Old Guitars <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajjansenmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\">ajjansenmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New England singer and songwriter AJ Jansen is in full strut on <em>Bars, Scars and Old Guitars<\/em>, a punchy EP that further refines the contemporary country sound she explored on her previous two albums. The sweetly vulnerable ballad \u201cI\u2019ll Let You\u201d and pensive slow-burner \u201cAll Over This Town\u201d are appealing in their own terms, but the comparably raucous remaining four songs set the overall tone. Insistent rhythms and impeccably catchy lead guitar lines make tracks like the down-and-dirty \u201cSmoke It,\u201d the assertive \u201cSouth of Utah\u201d and the reflective title cut instantly memorable. \u201cYou\u2019re Gonna Love Me,\u201d Jansen promises on the closing track of <em>Bars, Scars and Old Guitars<\/em>, and there\u2019s no reason to doubt her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJ JANSEN Bars, Scars and Old Guitars ajjansenmusic.com New England singer and songwriter AJ Jansen is in full strut on Bars, Scars and Old Guitars, a punchy EP that further refines the contemporary country sound she explored on her previous two albums. The sweetly vulnerable ballad \u201cI\u2019ll Let You\u201d and pensive slow-burner \u201cAll Over This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[1138,1141,1139,1140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"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=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1647,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/1647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}