{"id":478,"date":"2010-08-10T16:23:47","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=478"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:42:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:42:51","slug":"allison-moorer-crows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/allison-moorer-crows\/","title":{"rendered":"ALLISON MOORER  + Crows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Allison-Moorer-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-479\" title=\"Allison-Moorer-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Allison-Moorer-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"ALLISON MOORER - Crows  \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Allison-Moorer-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Allison-Moorer-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>ALLISON MOORER <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Crows<\/em><\/strong><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rykodisc]<\/p>\n<p>For an artist whose career has been built on darkly gorgeous\u00a0 hymns to melancholy, suddenly finding yourself happily married is an occupational hazard. Allison Moorer\u2019s 2006 album <em>Getting Somewhere<\/em> found her working with new husband Steve Earle, and some measure of inspiration was lost between the earnest sunniness of the songs and Earle\u2019s overbearing production stamp. Last year\u2019s covers album <em>Mockingbird<\/em> was a lovely diversion, but <em>Crows<\/em> is an all-out return to sweetly dolorous form. Producer R.S. Field frames with delicate care a loose song cycle tracing the journey from solipsism (\u201cDon\u2019t expect a twirl, she\u2019s not that kind of girl\/She reserves the right to be sullen,\u201d she jabs in \u201cJust Another Fool\u201d) to hard-earned hope. Moorer has always been a master at finding beauty in pain, but <em>Crows<\/em> makes clear that she also has a knack for finding pain in beauty. \u2013CN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALLISON MOORER Crows [Rykodisc] For an artist whose career has been built on darkly gorgeous\u00a0 hymns to melancholy, suddenly finding yourself happily married is an occupational hazard. Allison Moorer\u2019s 2006 album Getting Somewhere found her working with new husband Steve Earle, and some measure of inspiration was lost between the earnest sunniness of the songs [&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":[196,181,182,32,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478"}],"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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}