{"id":6971,"date":"2012-08-02T02:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6971"},"modified":"2012-08-02T02:02:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:02:44","slug":"jon-cleary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/jon-cleary\/","title":{"rendered":"JON CLEARY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6972\" title=\"JON-CLEARY-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JON-CLEARY-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JON-CLEARY-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JON-CLEARY-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>J<\/strong><strong>ON CLEARY<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Occapella<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>joncleary.com<\/p>\n<p>In the steamy, groove-drenched version of New Orleans presented on this album\u2014a tribute to legendary Crescent City songwriter Allen Toussaint\u2014Jon Cleary has but one rule: \u201cEverything I Do Gohn Be Funky.\u201d Well, not everything. The English-born session ace mellows out on Glen Campbell\u2019s 1977 hit \u201cSouthern Nights,\u201d but he gets toes tapping even as he gazes at the stars and plucks out a spare piano melody. Toussaint is a master of blues, jazz, soul and R&amp;B, styles among which Cleary glides effortlessly here while singing and playing every instrument himself in the more-is-more spirit of N\u2019awlins. On \u201cPoor Boy Got to Move\u201d he even drops a reggae riddim, honoring Toussaint\u2019s source material best by proving its adaptability.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JON CLEARY Occapella joncleary.com In the steamy, groove-drenched version of New Orleans presented on this album\u2014a tribute to legendary Crescent City songwriter Allen Toussaint\u2014Jon Cleary has but one rule: \u201cEverything I Do Gohn Be Funky.\u201d Well, not everything. The English-born session ace mellows out on Glen Campbell\u2019s 1977 hit \u201cSouthern Nights,\u201d but he gets toes [&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":[196,4411,10159,4408,4410,4300,4409],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971"}],"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=6971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6973,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6971\/revisions\/6973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}