{"id":4532,"date":"2012-02-08T00:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4532"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:25:16","slug":"alyssa-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/alyssa-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"ALYSSA CARLSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4815\" title=\"ALYSSA-CARLSON-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ALYSSA-CARLSON-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ALYSSA-CARLSON-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ALYSSA-CARLSON-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>LYSSA CARLSON\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>This Side of Innocence\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>myspace.com\/alyssacarlsonmusic<\/p>\n<p>Nashville-based singer and songwriter Alyssa Carlson takes her cues from heroes like John Mellencamp, Mary Chapin Carpenter and fellow native Minnesotan Bob Dylan\u2014her acoustic-dominated settings gently frame poetic and carefully observed lyrics about far-off dreams and close-up heartaches. Producer Neilson Hubbard (known for his work with tunesmiths like Glen Phillips and Kim Richey) keeps the sound glisteningly tasteful and the focus clearly on Carlson\u2019s willowy vocals. Carlson demonstrates her commitment to her forebears\u2019 show-don\u2019t-tell ethos through evocative details in songs like the gently roiling \u201cJealous of the Night\u201d and the faintly psychedelic \u201cCastle in a Carnival,\u201d not to mention the all-too-timely closing cover of Mellencamp\u2019s hard-times hymn \u201cJackie Brown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALYSSA CARLSON\u00a0 This Side of Innocence\u00a0 myspace.com\/alyssacarlsonmusic Nashville-based singer and songwriter Alyssa Carlson takes her cues from heroes like John Mellencamp, Mary Chapin Carpenter and fellow native Minnesotan Bob Dylan\u2014her acoustic-dominated settings gently frame poetic and carefully observed lyrics about far-off dreams and close-up heartaches. Producer Neilson Hubbard (known for his work with tunesmiths like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,2905,10159,2907,2864,2906],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532"}],"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=4532"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4816,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4532\/revisions\/4816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}