{"id":2878,"date":"2011-08-01T21:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T04:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2878"},"modified":"2011-08-01T21:54:04","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T04:54:04","slug":"lauren-pritchard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/lauren-pritchard\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUREN PRITCHARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2879\" title=\"Lauren-Pritchard-QandA\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lauren-Pritchard-QandA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lauren-Pritchard-QandA.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Lauren-Pritchard-QandA-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>LAUREN PRITCHARD<\/h2>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Jackson, Tenn.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Wasted in Jackson<\/em>, out now digitally; \t\tCD release due in February 2011<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> laurenpritchard.com<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Pritchard came to Los Angeles from Tennessee as a teenager, determined to make her name in the music business\u2014but before long found herself broke and resigned to returning home defeated. Then a friend\u2019s mother intervened, convincing her to move into their family home until she got on her feet. The mom in question? None other than Lisa Marie Presley. \u201cI know that all of the things that have happened to me since then wouldn\u2019t have happened if the Presleys hadn\u2019t offered me a place to stay,\u201d says Pritchard, who eventually found her big break when she struck up a fruitful collaboration with successful English songwriter Eg White. The title of her debut, <em>Wasted in Jackson<\/em>, refers to her now-fulfilled desire to escape her hometown for the wider world. \u201cI love where I\u2019m from so much,\u201d she says. \u201cBut I needed to get away from that place to get to the place where I am now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUREN PRITCHARD HOMETOWN: Jackson, Tenn. INFLUENCES: Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Al Green ALBUM: Wasted in Jackson, out now digitally; CD release due in February 2011 WEBSITE: laurenpritchard.com Lauren Pritchard came to Los Angeles from Tennessee as a teenager, determined to make her name in the music business\u2014but before long found herself broke and resigned to [&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":[2220,2221,1175,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878"}],"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=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}