{"id":4175,"date":"2011-11-04T11:36:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4175"},"modified":"2011-11-04T11:36:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T18:36:38","slug":"mr-lewis-and-the-funeral-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/11\/mr-lewis-and-the-funeral-5\/","title":{"rendered":"MR. LEWIS AND THE FUNERAL 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-MR-LEWIS-AND-THE-FUNERAL-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4176\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-MR-LEWIS-AND-THE-FUNERAL-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-MR-LEWIS-AND-THE-FUNERAL-5.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-MR-LEWIS-AND-THE-FUNERAL-5-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>MR. LEWIS AND THE FUNERAL 5<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Delirium Tremendous<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>myspace.com\/mrlewisthefuneral5<\/p>\n<p>A pulp novel set to music, the second album by this Austin sextet is overrun with losers, boozers and other lowlifes. They\u2019re all given voice by Gregory Lewis, a scenery-eating thespian of a frontman with Tom Waits\u2019 taste for gallows humor and gutter poetics. Lewis opens the disc by singing, \u201cThere\u2019s murder and cheap canned beer all around the highway,\u201d and just like that, the band is off and running\u2014sax honking seedily, circus piano mimicking the on-off blink of a trashy neon bar sign. \u201cI don\u2019t need no woman to save me,\u201d Lewis sings on the woozy waltz \u201cVilla Nocturne,\u201d setting up one of his best punch lines. \u201cI could be helped by three or four.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MR. LEWIS AND THE FUNERAL 5 Delirium Tremendous myspace.com\/mrlewisthefuneral5 A pulp novel set to music, the second album by this Austin sextet is overrun with losers, boozers and other lowlifes. They\u2019re all given voice by Gregory Lewis, a scenery-eating thespian of a frontman with Tom Waits\u2019 taste for gallows humor and gutter poetics. Lewis opens [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,2774,10159,2775,2773,2615],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175"}],"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=4175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4177,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4175\/revisions\/4177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}