{"id":2856,"date":"2011-08-01T21:16:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T04:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2011-08-01T21:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T04:20:20","slug":"brendan-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/brendan-james\/","title":{"rendered":"BRENDAN JAMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2860\" title=\"Brendan-James-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Brendan-James-QandA1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Brendan-James-QandA1.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Brendan-James-QandA1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>BRENDAN JAMES<\/h2>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Derry, N.H.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, \t\t\tStevie Wonder<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Brendan James<\/em>, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> brendanjames.com<\/p>\n<p>After the release of his 2008 debut, <em>The Day Is Brave<\/em>, singer and pianist Brendan James toured relentlessly for 18 months. Along the way (by his count), he performed in 40 states, stayed in 210 hotels and ate at 330 restaurants. The goal was to build a fan base the old-fashioned way, one convert at a time. \u201cThe tour gave me a new understanding of myself as a performer,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019ve definitely evolved as a musician, which gave me the confidence to be more adventurous on my new record.\u201d James recorded his<\/p>\n<p>self-titled sophomore effort with producer Warren Huart in Los Angeles, where he now lives. \u201cPursuing a career in music has been one hell of a challenge,\u201d he says. \u201cBut everyone has their own individual pursuit they are trying to achieve, and for me it is sharing my music with as many people as humanly possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRENDAN JAMES HOMETOWN: Derry, N.H. INFLUENCES: Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder ALBUM: Brendan James, out now WEBSITE: brendanjames.com After the release of his 2008 debut, The Day Is Brave, singer and pianist Brendan James toured relentlessly for 18 months. Along the way (by his count), he performed in 40 states, stayed in 210 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[2210,2211,1062,2212,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856"}],"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=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}