{"id":4542,"date":"2012-02-08T00:35:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4542"},"modified":"2012-02-08T00:35:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T07:35:22","slug":"sugar-ray-and-the-bluetones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/sugar-ray-and-the-bluetones\/","title":{"rendered":"SUGAR RAY AND THE BLUETONES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4826\" title=\"SUGAR-RAY-AND-THE-BLUETONES-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SUGAR-RAY-AND-THE-BLUETONES-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SUGAR-RAY-AND-THE-BLUETONES-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/SUGAR-RAY-AND-THE-BLUETONES-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>UGAR RAY AND THE BLUETONES<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Evening<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>sugarrayandthebluetones.com<\/p>\n<p>Blues enthusiast John Mayer sometimes pokes fun at himself for being from Connecticut, a place few associate with the genre. Despite its lack of hardscrabble romance, the Constitution State has produced some fine bluesmen. Case in point: Sugar Ray Norcia, a soulful vocalist and powerhouse harmonica blower who years ago \u201ccame down with the blues,\u201d as he sings here. Norcia likes his blues Chicago-style, and he and the Bluetones get down with boogie piano, foghorn harp, and the scratchy Strat of \u201cMonster\u201d Mike Welch. Norcia has the chops to cover old standards, but it\u2019s more fun hearing him complain about calories and parking tickets on \u201cRules and Regulations,\u201d a blues anthem for the modern New Englander.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUGAR RAY AND THE BLUETONES Evening sugarrayandthebluetones.com Blues enthusiast John Mayer sometimes pokes fun at himself for being from Connecticut, a place few associate with the genre. Despite its lack of hardscrabble romance, the Constitution State has produced some fine bluesmen. Case in point: Sugar Ray Norcia, a soulful vocalist and powerhouse harmonica blower who [&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":[196,2921,10159,2864,2920,2922],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542"}],"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=4542"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4827,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4542\/revisions\/4827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}