{"id":3739,"date":"2011-10-09T19:26:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3739"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:03:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:03:42","slug":"lauren-lucas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/lauren-lucas\/","title":{"rendered":"LAUREN LUCAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-LAUREN-LUCAS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3740\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-LAUREN-LUCAS.jpg\" alt=\"LAUREN LUCAS\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-LAUREN-LUCAS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-LAUREN-LUCAS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>L<\/strong><strong>AUREN LUCAS <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>On With the Show <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>laurenlucas.com<\/p>\n<p>The cover portrait for Nashville-based Lauren Lucas\u2019 first new music since 2007 (illustrated by noted comic-book artist Jim Starlin) finds the South Carolina native cutting herself free of puppet strings. While it\u2019s a not-so-subtle metaphor for Lucas\u2019 frustration with her wranglings with Music City\u2019s oft-maddening business machine, it\u2019s also representative of the broader and more organic musical scope demonstrated on the six tracks of this independent EP. Never before has Lucas allowed the natural streak of R&amp;B and soul always implied in her rich voice to the fore as it does here, supported by a steady thrum of B-3 organ and (on the clever music-biz deconstruction \u201cFollow the Leader\u201d) a proudly blaring horn section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAUREN LUCAS On With the Show laurenlucas.com The cover portrait for Nashville-based Lauren Lucas\u2019 first new music since 2007 (illustrated by noted comic-book artist Jim Starlin) finds the South Carolina native cutting herself free of puppet strings. While it\u2019s a not-so-subtle metaphor for Lucas\u2019 frustration with her wranglings with Music City\u2019s oft-maddening business machine, it\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2482,2567,2565,2566],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739"}],"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=3739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3774,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3739\/revisions\/3774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}