{"id":426,"date":"2010-08-10T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=426"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:44:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:44:11","slug":"patty-griffin-downtown-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/patty-griffin-downtown-church\/","title":{"rendered":"PATTY GRIFFIN + Downtown Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_427\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PATTY-GRIFFIN-Downtown-Church-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-427\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-427\" title=\"PATTY-GRIFFIN-Downtown-Church-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PATTY-GRIFFIN-Downtown-Church-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"PATTY GRIFFIN + Downtown Church\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PATTY-GRIFFIN-Downtown-Church-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PATTY-GRIFFIN-Downtown-Church-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-427\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PATTY GRIFFIN + Downtown Church<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Patty Griffin is, by her own religious estimation, a lapsed Catholic of no certain faith. So she might seem like an odd duck to be doing a \u201cgospel album\u201d\u2014except that hers is a voice you hope to hear sing not only the phone book but also the Bible, Koran and Bhagavad Gita, if possible. In any case, there\u2019s nothing pat or predictable about the quietly stunning <em>Downtown Church<\/em>, which finds Griffin focusing on black gospel material but also tackling vintage spirituals ranging from Hank Williams\u2019 haunting \u201cHouse of Gold\u201d at the beginning to the traditional \u201cAll Creatures of Our God and King\u201d at the close. In between, she contributes a couple of stirring original ballads that admittedly would only count as gospel in the eye of the beholder. No matter her actual faith or lack thereof, when Griffin sings about the afterlife in \u201cWe Shall All Be Reunited,\u201d you\u2019ll believe that she believes. \u2013Chris Willman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patty Griffin is, by her own religious estimation, a lapsed Catholic of no certain faith. So she might seem like an odd duck to be doing a \u201cgospel album\u201d\u2014except that hers is a voice you hope to hear sing not only the phone book but also the Bible, Koran and Bhagavad Gita, if possible. In [&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":[196,165,158,32,157],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}