{"id":3650,"date":"2011-10-09T18:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2011-10-09T18:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:33:38","slug":"tommy-keene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/tommy-keene\/","title":{"rendered":"TOMMY KEENE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-TOMMY-KEENE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3651\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-TOMMY-KEENE.jpg\" alt=\"TOMMY KEENE\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-TOMMY-KEENE.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-TOMMY-KEENE-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>OMMY KEENE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Behind the Parade<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Second Motion]<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d think that after 25 years of plying his trade, Tommy Keene might have run out of ideas\u2014or worse, inspiration. After all, that\u2019s an awfully long time to labor below the radar. But if Keene\u2019s dismayed, there\u2019s no evidence of it here. <em>Behind the Parade<\/em> is brimming with enthusiasm, as reflected in the earworm hooks and enticing melodies that have long since become his stock in trade. The muted trumpets on album opener \u201cDeep Six Saturday,\u201d the driving delivery of \u201cRunning for Your Life,\u201d the exhilarating rush of \u201cFactory Town\u201d and the nagging sentiment behind the title track all offer examples of how Keene\u2019s music effectively gets under the skin. That\u2019s an element all his songs have in common: the knack for sounding fresh yet timeless. Keene may not have yet found the wide audience he richly deserves, but <em>Behind the Parade<\/em> finds him as welcoming to new and open ears as ever. \u2013Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOMMY KEENE Behind the Parade [Second Motion] You\u2019d think that after 25 years of plying his trade, Tommy Keene might have run out of ideas\u2014or worse, inspiration. After all, that\u2019s an awfully long time to labor below the radar. But if Keene\u2019s dismayed, there\u2019s no evidence of it here. Behind the Parade is brimming with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2511,2482,2512,2510],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650"}],"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=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3653,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}