{"id":4927,"date":"2012-02-17T20:57:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2012-02-17T20:57:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:57:40","slug":"mitch-ryder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/mitch-ryder\/","title":{"rendered":"MITCH RYDER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4928\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MITCH-RYDER-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MITCH-RYDER-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/MITCH-RYDER-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>M<\/strong><strong>ITCH RYDER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Promise<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Michigan Broadcasting Corporation]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Detroit\u2019s Mitch Ryder lays down old-school grooves with a vengeance on his first American album in nearly 30 years, singing the blue-collar blues over catchy bass and guitar riffs. Ryder lets out the Motor City funk on numbers such as \u201cThe Way We Were\u201d and \u201cJunkie Love,\u201d aided by producer and fellow Detroiter Don Was. Ryder addresses the personal and political with equal ease. On \u201cThank You Mama\u201d he poignantly eulogizes his mother and father, while the album\u2019s title track is a soulful ballad with a soaring chorus that has the soul pioneer making the case for better schools and health care. At 66, Ryder\u2019s voice isn\u2019t quite as powerful as it might have been when he scored with 1960s hits like \u201cLittle Latin Lupe Lu\u201d and \u201cDevil With a Blue Dress On\/Good Golly Miss Molly,\u201d but this latest effort proves he still has the goods. \u2013Erik Ofgang<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MITCH RYDER The Promise [Michigan Broadcasting Corporation] Detroit\u2019s Mitch Ryder lays down old-school grooves with a vengeance on his first American album in nearly 30 years, singing the blue-collar blues over catchy bass and guitar riffs. Ryder lets out the Motor City funk on numbers such as \u201cThe Way We Were\u201d and \u201cJunkie Love,\u201d aided [&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":[196,3032,3090,3089,3091],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927"}],"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=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4929,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/4929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}