{"id":3684,"date":"2011-10-09T18:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3684"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:15:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:15:59","slug":"robert-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/robert-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT ELLIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ROBERT-ELLIS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3685\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ROBERT-ELLIS.jpg\" alt=\"ROBERT ELLIS\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ROBERT-ELLIS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-ROBERT-ELLIS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>OBERT ELLIS <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Photographs<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[New West]<\/p>\n<p>He may be only 22, but Houston native Robert Ellis displays an impressive ability to channel influential elders while nimbly shifting his own style. The first five songs on his debut find him in singer-songwriter mode a la the early \u201970s, with Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Paul Simon and the Laurel Canyon crowd serving as obvious reference points. Mellow acoustic ballads with occasional strings offer the impression he\u2019s one of those wistful retiring types, prone to songs about idyllic settings and forgotten friends. But \u201cComin\u2019 Home\u201d signals an obvious transition, its restless energy building toward a rousing conclusion. From that point on, Hank Williams and George Jones take over the template, as Ellis utilizes steel guitar, fiddles and a spirited sound to assert his down-home demeanor. <em>Photographs<\/em> captures some sweet sentiments and evokes a welcome flood of musical memories. \u2014Lee Zimmerman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBERT ELLIS Photographs [New West] He may be only 22, but Houston native Robert Ellis displays an impressive ability to channel influential elders while nimbly shifting his own style. The first five songs on his debut find him in singer-songwriter mode a la the early \u201970s, with Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Paul Simon and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,2482,299,2526,2527],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684"}],"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=3684"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3790,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3684\/revisions\/3790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}