{"id":4941,"date":"2012-02-17T21:07:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4941"},"modified":"2012-02-17T21:07:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T04:07:51","slug":"candi-staton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/candi-staton\/","title":{"rendered":"CANDI STATON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4942\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CANDI-STATON-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CANDI-STATON-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/CANDI-STATON-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>C<\/strong><strong>ANDI STATON<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Who\u2019s Hurting Now?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Honest Jon\u2019s]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Candi Staton earned the title \u201cfirst lady of Southern soul\u201d for the sides she recorded 40 years ago before turning to disco and then forsaking the secular for gospel music. Her sublime 2006 comeback record, <em>His Hands<\/em>, begged for a follow-up. <em>Who\u2019s Hurting Now?<\/em> came out overseas in 2009, but label and licensing complications prevented its release stateside until now. Better late than never\u2014it\u2019s every bit as good as its predecessor. Staton is again working with Lambchop\u2019s Mark Nevers as producer, and together the pair brushes up against the vintage Southern soul sound of her Muscle Shoals records while avoiding any hint of by-the-numbers retro. Witness her subdued, almost weary version of Mary Gauthier\u2019s \u201cMercy Now,\u201d her spectacular personification of loneliness with \u201cLonely Don\u2019t,\u201d or her eye-opening reworking of the Cox Family\u2019s \u201cCry Baby Cry\u201d that turns the acoustic country of the original into a smoldering fire. This is intense, timeless soul music. \u2013Stuart Munro<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANDI STATON Who\u2019s Hurting Now? [Honest Jon\u2019s] Candi Staton earned the title \u201cfirst lady of Southern soul\u201d for the sides she recorded 40 years ago before turning to disco and then forsaking the secular for gospel music. Her sublime 2006 comeback record, His Hands, begged for a follow-up. Who\u2019s Hurting Now? came out overseas in [&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":[196,3097,3032,3099,3098],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941"}],"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=4941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4943,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4941\/revisions\/4943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}