{"id":7010,"date":"2012-08-02T02:22:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7010"},"modified":"2012-08-14T12:10:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T19:10:44","slug":"sophie-b-hawkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/sophie-b-hawkins\/","title":{"rendered":"SOPHIE B. HAWKINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7011\" title=\"SOPHIE-B-HAWKINS-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOPHIE-B-HAWKINS-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOPHIE-B-HAWKINS-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/SOPHIE-B-HAWKINS-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>OPHIE B. HAWKINS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Crossing<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Lightyear]<\/p>\n<p>Sophie B. Hawkins, best known for the 1992 sleeper hit \u201cDamn I Wish I Was Your Lover\u201d and 1995\u2019s adult-contemporary staple \u201cAs I Lay Me Down,\u201d has completed her transformation from young spunky performer to cool, assured vet with <em>The Crossing<\/em>. Hawkins pulls triple duty on her first album in eight years, acting as producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist while recording entirely in her home studio. Hawkins\u2019 incisive lyrics hint at a spiritual awakening driven by the birth of her son in 2008, just one of the ways in which experience has clearly forced her to examine life from a variety of angles. She sounds bruised and wary on \u201cMissing,\u201d a tender tribute to her late father, and stubbornly defiant on \u201cGone Baby,\u201d a folk ballad written with Mary Steenburgen. Hawkins considers the heart\u2019s mysterious ways on the album\u2019s centerpiece, \u201cDream Street &amp; Chance,\u201d a torch song that preaches the power of self-acceptance. It\u2019s the sound of someone wishing for more enduring pleasures than\u00a0being anyone\u2019s lover. \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOPHIE B. HAWKINS The Crossing [Lightyear] Sophie B. Hawkins, best known for the 1992 sleeper hit \u201cDamn I Wish I Was Your Lover\u201d and 1995\u2019s adult-contemporary staple \u201cAs I Lay Me Down,\u201d has completed her transformation from young spunky performer to cool, assured vet with The Crossing. Hawkins pulls triple duty on her first album [&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":[196,4525,4300,4445,4443,4444],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010"}],"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=7010"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7127,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7010\/revisions\/7127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}