{"id":5744,"date":"2012-04-25T01:28:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5744"},"modified":"2012-04-25T01:28:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T08:28:01","slug":"amy-ray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/amy-ray\/","title":{"rendered":"AMY RAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5745\" title=\"AMY-RAY-M-Review-JanFeb2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AMY-RAY-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AMY-RAY-M-Review-JanFeb2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/AMY-RAY-M-Review-JanFeb2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>A<\/strong><strong>MY RAY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Lung of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>amy-ray.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A few songs after \u201cFrom Haiti,\u201d whose stabbing guitars evoke \u201cLondon Calling,\u201d Amy Ray makes an even more direct reference to that classic\u2019s creators in the Clash. \u201cThere\u2019s a little Joe Strummer in my DNA,\u201d she sings on \u201cLittle Revolution,\u201d an organ-driven pop nugget about embracing\u2014and therefore overcoming\u2014pain and suffering. Indeed, the longtime Indigo Girl shares much in common with Strummer\u2014most notably his no-rules musical philosophy. <em>Lung of Love<\/em>, Ray\u2019s sixth solo album, has highway blues, poppy punk and even an Appalachian gospel jamboree. Ray also has her hero\u2019s moral code: On the title track she mentions her \u201ccompass of the heart,\u201d an instrument every bit as important as her guitar.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMY RAY Lung of Love amy-ray.com A few songs after \u201cFrom Haiti,\u201d whose stabbing guitars evoke \u201cLondon Calling,\u201d Amy Ray makes an even more direct reference to that classic\u2019s creators in the Clash. \u201cThere\u2019s a little Joe Strummer in my DNA,\u201d she sings on \u201cLittle Revolution,\u201d an organ-driven pop nugget about embracing\u2014and therefore overcoming\u2014pain and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,3451,3453,10159,3185,3452],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744"}],"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=5744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5746,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5744\/revisions\/5746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}