{"id":21230,"date":"2024-07-31T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=21230"},"modified":"2024-07-31T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T16:05:18","slug":"grace-pettis-i-take-care-of-me-now-video-web-exclusive-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2024\/07\/grace-pettis-i-take-care-of-me-now-video-web-exclusive-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"GRACE PETTIS &#8220;I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW&#8221; Video &#038; Web-Exclusive Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Video Feature &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h2>Musician:\u00a0 <strong>GRACE PETTIS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3>Video Premiere:\u00a0 \u201c<strong>I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW<\/strong>\u201d<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Avjv1j3Xql0?si=YEIK2nCuIMjAw0E1\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1><strong><em>DOWN TO THE LETTER<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><strong>WITH AMERICANA\u2019S <em>WORKING WOMAN <\/em>GRACE PETTIS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>by Rodeo Marie Hanson<\/p>\n<p>An American juvenile cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9, reminiscent of 1985\u2019s <em>The Breakfast Club,<\/em> unfolds within every school\u2019s granite and brick corridors, monochromatic carpeted classrooms and institutionalized cafeterias. In this microcosm, young people embark on a quest for their holy grail\u2014self-identity and a way to carve out a place for themselves in the world much like initials etched fervently underneath students\u2019 desks.<\/p>\n<p>Jocks\u2019 muscular bodies wrapped in impervious armor, otherwise known as varsity sweaters, proudly promenade; their victories on the field framed in the main hallway\u2019s trophy case create an inescapable penumbra companion. Valedictorians, draped in academic achievements with the slightest tint of intellectual superiority, wear their laurels like badges of honor. Members of student government, led by the direction of ever-changing political winds, wield influence over their peers\u2014this is the curriculum vitae presented to the youth of America, a steady diet of mixed messages, power-struggles and compulsory conformity resulting in the malnutrition of individuality.<\/p>\n<p>Singer-songwriter\u00a0Grace\u00a0Pettis is intimately acquainted with the unforgiving\u00a0<em>Lord of the Flies<\/em>\u2019\u00a0politics of high school and navigating the horizontal labyrinth of tables reflective of social status in the lunchroom. Describing herself as one of those weird, artsy and nerdy kids, Pettis didn\u2019t enjoy membership in the popular\u00a0cliques or the privileges associated with them. Utilizing the strength in numbers strategy, Pettis unofficially and loosely aligned herself with kids, who like herself,\u00a0didn\u2019t neatly fit into a mold, dancing dangerously along the curves and fringes outside of societal norms.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21231\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-02.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-02-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pettis commits pen to paper crafting personal lyrics within the Americana\/folk musical framework for that table of kids in the lunchroom relegated to external points of view; residents of the periphery, eloquently and succinctly captured by the lyrics of Rush\u2019s \u201cSubdivisions\u201d: \u201c<em>In the high school halls \/ In the shopping malls \/ Conform or be cast out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/em>Acknowledged by several of the nation\u2019s songwriting competitions such as NPR\u2019s Mountain Stage NewSong Contest, and receiving endowments from The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation,\u00a0Grace\u00a0Pettis is a woman on a mission, fueled by many intersecting desires on the highway of the music industry to bring her songs and commitment to social-justice awareness to all those non-conformists and souls adrift at the high school lunch table.\u00a0<em>Down to the Letter<\/em>, Pettis\u2019 most recent effort and follow up to\u00a0<em>Working Woman<\/em>, is a stripped down, unapologetic, unflinching and raw exploration of self-identity and self-worth following the end of a marriage and aftermath of a divorce\u2014a musical diary offering self-help to others in similar romantically complicated and challenging situations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><em>\u201cI Take Care of Me Now\u201d is\u00a0Grace\u2019s first single\/video from the album <\/em><\/strong><strong>Down to the Letter<em>, and is an anthem of self-awareness, self-identity and self-empowerment\u2014breaking the shackles associated with co-dependent relationships.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Untamed tresses ablaze in curls of crimson frame, her youthful face accentuated by soft contours and cherub cheeks, pigmented by the delicate flush of rose. Cream-colored knock around sweater, undiluted blue straight cut jeans, and vegan cherry-red oxblood Doc Martens are Pettis\u2019 fashion ensemble conveying an attractive, yet attainable, girl next door aura. Pouty full lips and a curled up smile suggests there is much more substance bubbling underneath the innocent fa\u00e7ade\u2014her body language boldly proclaims <em>enter at your own risk<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAny Kind of Girl\u201d &#8211; Growing Up In Atlanta with a Musical Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born into a musical family,\u00a0Grace\u2019s paternal grandmother went to music school and was an organist and pianist. Pierce Pettis, her father, was a staff writer at Muscle Shoals and PolyGram. Sharing family stories, Pettis explains how she found music and discovered her early influences, \u201cMy dad\u2019s mother played piano when she was going to Auburn University, and she was working this waitressing job and she was so good at it. She was so entertaining that the other waitresses pooled their tips and paid her to just play the piano instead of wait tables. My other grandmother got into Juilliard, but didn\u2019t go\u2014she was a really good pianist as well and they both sang and played in church. It\u2019s like a mini-generational thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pierce Pettis, the patriarch, toured a lot when\u00a0Grace\u00a0was a little girl, and other musicians would hang out\u2014so she got to know a lot of songwriters, guitar players and performers. Growing up in Atlanta,\u00a0Grace\u00a0was the only white student during four years of elementary school. She attended church with a lot of her friends who were black, and found a lot of black southern gospel, R&amp;B, hip hop and jazz, which became a part of her musical upbringing. Monica, Nelly, Lauryn Hill, Destiny\u2019s Child and Mary J. Blige coexisted on Pettis\u2019 musical landscape with gospel, country, bluegrass and folk\u2014the latter, a result of Pierce being a folk singer-songwriter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21236\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-01.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-01-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSo Far Away\u201d \u2013 Pierce Pettis on Tour &amp; Trading CDs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pierce had a unique way of sharing music before the advent of the internet\u2014he would go on tour and take a full box of CDs, and then swap them out with other musicians. He would come back with a box full of new music from different musicians who weren\u2019t on the radio\u2014underground folk singer-songwriters. Grace reaped the creative rewards, finding before anyone else\u2014yet to be discovered talent, subsequently forging an artistic and special bond with her father.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cSpeak Tenderly\u201d \u2013 Songwriters, Lyrics &amp; the Beatles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Lots of songwriters and lyric-intensive material were creative fixtures at the Pettis household. Both of\u00a0Grace\u2019s parents loved the Beatles, so she grew up singing Beatles\u2019 songs. Joni Mitchell\u2019s<em>\u00a0Blue\u00a0<\/em>is Pettis\u2019 mom\u2019s favorite album, and a preteen\u00a0Grace\u00a0drowned in it. George,\u00a0Grace\u2019s brother, spent time harmonizing, playing the piano and singing Beatles\u2019 songs with her. Writers like Paul Simon, Tom Petty and Bob Dylan also occupied young\u00a0Grace\u2019s ears, adding to her literary aspirations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cYou Are the Cowboy\u201d &#8211; Pierce Pettis Staff Writer for PolyGram<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pierce Pettis was a staff writer for PolyGram, which now exists as a publishing arm of Universal Music Group. PolyGram was ahead of its time because they married music with movies in a way that was commercially viable before MTV became part of the mainstream of consciousness. Elaborating on her father\u2019s role at PolyGram, \u201cHis first cut was with Joan Baez on a song called \u2018The Song at the End of the Movie\u2019\u2014that was his first real cut. Then Dar Williams recorded a song of his called \u2018Family.\u2019 He had a couple early cuts that got him into the national co-writing, publishing world and then his real big hit was Garth Brooks\u2019 \u2018You Move Me\u2019 which happened in the 90s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After signing a publishing or record deal, Pierce experienced some perils associated with the music business when those with whom he made the agreement would be bought out by somebody bigger, \u201cThere would be some little record company or outfit that would believe in him like Windham Hill or High Street Records\u2014the bigger the fish got, the less important he seemed to be. There were some tragedies in that. A warehouse where a lot of copies of one of his early records were stored (PolyGram), burned the entire warehouse because it was stock that they couldn\u2019t sell. He had a lot of major successes that helped him maintain a career that he\u2019s been able to live off of for decades now. It\u2019s been an interesting ride for him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21233\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-04.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-04-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cTurning Too\u201d \u2013 Avoiding the Sophomore Curse with\u00a0<em>Down to the Letter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Down to the Letter\u00a0<\/em>is Pettis\u2019 follow-up to\u00a0<em>Working Woman<\/em>. When an artist releases a second record, there\u2019s an added pressure to avoid the dreaded sophomore curse. Pettis demystifies the potential jinx,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI guess there is some pressure because on the first one I felt like it was pretty well received in spite of the fact that we put it out during COVID, which definitely didn\u2019t help in some ways, but in other ways it meant that we had a lot of available, really cool guests: Indigo Girls, Ruthie Foster, Dar Williams, the Watson Twins, and Gina Chavez. All that kind of brought a lot of attention for the record, which was great. It was kind of hard to tour because it was in 2021, so there were pros and cons of putting out a record at that time. This one has been so organic and straight out of life experience. It\u2019s a divorce record. It\u2019s really different from my last record. My last record was big, pandemic, live rock band record, and this one we made it from a home studio. That one (<em>Working Woman)<\/em>\u00a0was a big commercial, national studio; this one (<em>Down to the Letter)\u00a0<\/em>is a friend\u2019s home studio. I sat around with a couple of friends and we made it in five days.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Down to the Letter<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>possesses the angst of Alanis Morissette\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Jagged Little Pill<em>\u00a0<\/em><em>and the passion of Sarah McLachlan\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Fumbling Towards Ecstasy<em>.\u00a0<\/em><em>Like Fleetwood Mac\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Rumours<em>,<\/em><em>\u00a0its material is introspective and explores the dynamics of relationships turned sour.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cWorking Women\u201d \u2013 Females Underrepresented In the Music Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the 21st century, women are still underpaid for the same jobs that men perform.\u00a0Pettis opens up about the importance of female empowerment in the digital\/online world, and why women are underrepresented in the music industry, \u201cWell, I think it is sexism and the patriarchy, obviously. Rachael Sage, the head of my label (MPress Records), she\u2019s been doing this since the Lilith Fair days and was involved in some of those tours. She toured with Ani DiFranco, and people have been trying to change this industry for a long time. It\u2019s really hard to be taken seriously\u2014it\u2019s hard to get the opportunities. A lot of women graduate at the same rate as men, when it comes to being sound engineers or producers, and then there\u2019s just this tiny fraction of the work that is out there available in the commercial music world. You really have to try to hear a song produced by a woman. Less than 2% of music is produced by women that you hear on the radio. We\u2019re out there and we\u2019re good at what we do, but the opportunities aren\u2019t always as forthcoming, and there are a lot of reasons for that. When a culture has just been a way that it\u2019s been for a long time, sometimes change can be cumbersome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cMean Something\u201d \u2013 Defining the Elusive Genre of Americana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are three music genres that defy definition: garage rock, heavy metal and Americana. Although there are artists that fit those genres, no one can effectively deconstruct what those genres are.\u00a0Grace\u00a0interprets what Americana means to her,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cWell, I think the reason that nobody can articulate what Americana is because Americana is just whatever isn\u2019t. It\u2019s whatever isn\u2019t country, or pop or whatever. Americana is everything from blues to rock to bluegrass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21235\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"991\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-06.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-06-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cAnd the Cradle Will Rock\u2026\u201d \u2013 Upcoming Gig at the Iconic Cafe Wha?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Currently on tour in support of\u00a0<em>Down to the Letter\u00a0<\/em>on the Numbers &amp; Letters tour<em>,\u00a0<\/em>Grace\u00a0is scheduled to play at Cafe Wha? in New York City, which was founded by Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth\u2019s uncle Manny Roth. Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor all performed at Cafe Wha? before they were known. Pettis shares her thoughts about doing a gig at such an iconic spot with an intriguing history, \u201cIt sounds awesome! I love traveling. I love getting to see parts of the country that other people don\u2019t get to see. People spend their whole lives saving for retirement so they can travel just a little bit, and I get to travel all the time! Yes, a lot of what I see are gas stations, but every now and then I get to play a show somewhere like that\u2014a place that\u2019s iconic and has real history. I\u2019m so interested in that history. The stuff that\u2019s not necessarily the broad strokes of history but the details that every town has that are so interesting. I\u2019m actually going to be playing with Robby Hecht. He has a brand new record that just came out as well, and it\u2019s called\u00a0<em>Not a Number<\/em>, and my record is\u00a0<em>Down to the Letter<\/em>\u2014so we\u2019re calling the tour Numbers &amp; Letters. It\u2019s been really fun and we both made divorce records around the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t You Worry None\u201d \u2013 Advice for a Thick Skin &amp; Open Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Grace\u00a0offers her\u00a0advice to the next generation who want to pursue music as a career, \u201cSome of the most important lessons I\u2019ve learned from other musicians and experiences include trying to be collaborative and not competitive. When you first start out, you have this\u00a0<em>American Idol\u00a0<\/em>mindset\u2014I need to beat everybody\u2014and yes, it\u2019s good to practice your instrument every day and try to be the best you can be. If you\u2019re competing against anybody, just compete against yourself and past versions of yourself. Find other musicians, find other writers, find other people who understand the work that you\u2019re trying to do, who have different life experiences. You have to have a combination of a thick skin and an open heart. You have to be able to handle rejection, not take it personally when people don\u2019t get what you do, or like what you do, which is so hard because we\u2019re all so sensitive. At the same time, as a songwriter, as an artist, you have to keep your heart open to the world. You have to be tender-hearted. You have to care about other people\u2019s experiences and be empathetic. Music is worth doing because music is worth doing, period. Whatever way that you do it in your life, that feels sustainable and enriching to you, is the right way to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21234\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-05.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-05-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review: <em>Down to the Letter:<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/strong><em>Down to the Letter\u00a0<\/em>possesses the angst of Alanis Morissette\u2019s\u00a0<em>Jagged Little Pill\u00a0<\/em>and the passion of Sarah McLachlan\u2019s\u00a0<em>Fumbling Towards Ecstasy.\u00a0<\/em>Like Fleetwood Mac\u2019s\u00a0<em>Rumours,<\/em>\u00a0its material is introspective and explores the dynamics of relationships turned sour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Better and the Worst\u201d could be the flip side to Sarah McLachlan\u2019s song \u201cIce Cream,\u201d the symbolism of matrimonial vows are highly overt\u2014a romance that once blossomed has veered off the rails and is now acidic and remorseful in nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI Take Care of Me Now\u201d is\u00a0Grace\u2019s first single\/video from the album and is an anthem of self-awareness, self-identity and self-empowerment\u2014breaking the shackles associated with co-dependent relationships.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRain,\u201d \u201cI Didn\u2019t Break This,\u201d and \u201cSobering Up\u201d progress the album\u2019s narrative in a linear format and are successful in conveying Pettis\u2019 pain due to her expressive and authentic vocal interpretations of the material.<\/p>\n<p>Pettis offers confessions from the studio while making\u00a0<em>Down to the Letter<\/em>, \u201cIt\u2019s personal\u2014I had to get it out of my system when I was going through my divorce, which is a really complicated and hard experience. I left the studio crying and sobbed in my car after recording sessions on multiple days. It was a really raw experience for me. My job was to show up and be an artist, and be a human and experience the song on tape for other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thematic elements on\u00a0<em>Down to the Letter\u00a0<\/em>include: loss, betrayal and self-empowerment. The song lyrics are based on real life and was both a cathartic and painful experience for Pettis who cried in the guest room at her mom\u2019s house every day for half a year\u2014and then the other half in other people\u2019s guest rooms.<\/p>\n<p>When she first left her marriage, Pettis was devastated and wasn\u2019t going to use the experience as subject matter for songs, choosing instead to keep her personal life private. After a lot of conversations with her therapist, Pettis wrote 27 songs about all of it.<\/p>\n<p>Waking up every day, Pettis just started writing and crying, lying around the house and being miserable and just getting it all out. It was time to make another record and Pettis\u2019 therapist encouraged her to make something useful out of that pain. Pettis viewed the creative process as a privilege, a gift to be able to tell her own story and have that suffering be useful in some way, \u201cAs much as I\u2019m able to give to the audience, I want to because that\u2019s them giving it back to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gracepettis.com\">https:\/\/www.gracepettis.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gracepettismusic\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gracepettismusic<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gracepettis\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gracepettis\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpressrecords.com\/\">https:\/\/www.mpressrecords.com\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/27KvaH85g9IRIFX3KGGvu7\">https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/27KvaH85g9IRIFX3KGGvu7<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gracepettis?lang=en\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gracepettis?lang=en<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/@GracePettisVideos\">https:\/\/www.YouTube.com\/@GracePettisVideos<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21232\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-03.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Grace-Pettis-03-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Feature &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview Musician:\u00a0 GRACE PETTIS Video Premiere:\u00a0 \u201cI TAKE CARE OF ME NOW\u201d &nbsp; \u00a0\u00a0 DOWN TO THE LETTER WITH AMERICANA\u2019S WORKING WOMAN GRACE PETTIS &nbsp; by Rodeo Marie Hanson An American juvenile cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9, reminiscent of 1985\u2019s The Breakfast Club, unfolds within every school\u2019s granite and brick corridors, monochromatic carpeted classrooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":21238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7725],"tags":[12159,14892,14893,12160,4537,1354,13510,14894,3155,14895,6580,24,3658,3592,969,14896,2328,4857,2714,14897,14898,14899,12180,14900,5261,14901,4953,14902,5140,5142,12624,14903,14904,14905,2294,12188,14906,310,3593,991,3952,14847,149,14907,7566,14908,168,14909,3010,7978,14910,9127,10198,7277,9043,2716,14911,8811,14912,14913,1857,12200,12641,483,14914,14915,7849,13243,7769,1113,3141,81,12886,14916,14917,8725,14918,3818,14920,14919,14921,14922,11239,14923,1609,14924,14925,3279,12657,14926,14927,14928,14929,12210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230"}],"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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21237,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21230\/revisions\/21237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}