{"id":4600,"date":"2012-02-03T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2012-02-03T18:09:07","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T01:09:07","slug":"rich-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/rich-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"RICH ROBINSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RICH-ROBINSON-M-Review-November2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4694\" title=\"RICH-ROBINSON-M-Review-November2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RICH-ROBINSON-M-Review-November2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RICH-ROBINSON-M-Review-November2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/RICH-ROBINSON-M-Review-November2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>ICH ROBINSON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Through a Crooked Sun<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Circle Sound\/Thirty Tigers]<\/p>\n<p>This second solo album from Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson finds him drawing from the usual sources\u2014the Stones and Faces, in particular\u2014but more dominant are some old-school rock influences that rarely surface in the Crowes\u2019 music. The strummy \u201cI Don\u2019t Hear the Sound of You\u201d evokes the breezy shimmer of the Hollies, but mostly Robinson works in darker colors. \u201cFollow You Forever\u201d could have fit snugly alongside the pastoral pop on Big Star\u2019s <em>Third<\/em>album; likewise, \u201cBye Bye Baby\u201d wouldn\u2019t sound out of place on a Daniel Lanois disc. Fans of Robinson\u2019s stinging electric guitar will find moments to savor as well. The jazzy, ethereal \u201cIt\u2019s Not Easy\u201d is equal parts Santana, Traffic and the Doors, while his cover of Fleetwood Mac\u2019s \u201cStation Man\u201d incorporates the best aspects of Mick Taylor-era Rolling Stones. Robinson\u2019s voice, while lacking the serrated edge of older brother Chris, gives everything here an offhand charm. \u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RICH ROBINSON Through a Crooked Sun [Circle Sound\/Thirty Tigers] This second solo album from Black Crowes guitarist Rich Robinson finds him drawing from the usual sources\u2014the Stones and Faces, in particular\u2014but more dominant are some old-school rock influences that rarely surface in the Crowes\u2019 music. The strummy \u201cI Don\u2019t Hear the Sound of You\u201d evokes [&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":[196,2972,2864,2970,2971],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"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=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}