{"id":7660,"date":"2012-10-29T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2012-10-29T15:36:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T22:36:46","slug":"tift-merritt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/10\/tift-merritt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFT MERRITT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7661\" title=\"TIFT-MERRITT-M-Review-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/TIFT-MERRITT-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/TIFT-MERRITT-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/TIFT-MERRITT-M-Review-SeptOct-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>IFT MERRITT<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Traveling Alone<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Yep Roc]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Although Tift Merritt has always shown a knack for vivid, poignant songs, her albums have occasionally ducked nuance in favor of emphasizing her robust voice. That changes on Merritt\u2019s latest, a collection that draws much of its power from the quieter moments. She embraces the dusty romance of a solitary life on the road in the title track, sighs through curtains of steel guitar on \u201cFeeling of Beauty\u201d and all but bites her lower lip as her voice drops to a throaty murmur on the sensual \u201cSweet Spot.\u201d It\u2019s Merritt\u2019s most collaborative effort, with contributions from guitarist Marc Ribot, Calexico drummer John Convertino, journeyman steel guitarist Eric Heywood and Andrew Bird, who sounds startlingly like Roy Orbison when he sings on the chorus of \u201cDrifted Apart.\u201d It\u2019s an imposing lineup of top-notch players, and with some of her strongest songs and a wider versatility than she\u2019s previously shown, Merritt demonstrates that she\u2019s\u00a0very much at home among them. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TIFT MERRITT Traveling Alone [Yep Roc] Although Tift Merritt has always shown a knack for vivid, poignant songs, her albums have occasionally ducked nuance in favor of emphasizing her robust voice. That changes on Merritt\u2019s latest, a collection that draws much of its power from the quieter moments. She embraces the dusty romance of a [&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":[196,5077,438,5096,398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660"}],"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=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7663,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}