{"id":485,"date":"2010-08-10T16:29:34","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=485"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:42:25","slug":"carrie-newcomer-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/carrie-newcomer-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"CARRIE NEWCOMER + Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Carrie-Newcomer-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-486\" title=\"Carrie-Newcomer-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Carrie-Newcomer-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"CARRIE NEWCOMER - Before and After \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Carrie-Newcomer-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Carrie-Newcomer-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>CARRIE NEWCOMER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Before and After<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rounder]<\/p>\n<p>In the acknowledgements for her 11th solo studio album, folk singer\/songwriter Carrie Newcomer thanks several friends for passing down stories that inspired various songs. It\u2019s just the first in a series of nods to folkloric tradition: These 13 original compositions also boast quietly uncomplicated arrangements and minimalist metaphors. This simplistic approach is occasionally twee, as when Newcomer borrows from nursery rhymes on \u201cHush\u201d and \u201cCoy Dogs.\u201d But elsewhere the plainness proves transcendent, as on the deceptively deep \u201cI Meant to Do My Work Today,\u201d which begins as a lighthearted ode to procrastination and grows more introspective. Throughout, the most compelling moments are those in which Newcomer uses traditional techniques to convey more modern messages\u2014for example, \u201cIf Not Now\u201d employs the most basic of song structures in a contemporary call to action. <em>Before and After<\/em>, its title invoking both the past and the future, reminds us that the best music embraces both. \u2013Katie Dodd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CARRIE NEWCOMER Before and After [Rounder] In the acknowledgements for her 11th solo studio album, folk singer\/songwriter Carrie Newcomer thanks several friends for passing down stories that inspired various songs. It\u2019s just the first in a series of nods to folkloric tradition: These 13 original compositions also boast quietly uncomplicated arrangements and minimalist metaphors. This [&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":[196,189,188,32,164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}