{"id":7786,"date":"2012-10-29T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2012-10-29T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:17:00","slug":"janis-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/10\/janis-martin\/","title":{"rendered":"JANIS MARTIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7787\" title=\"JANIS-MARTIN-M-Review-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JANIS-MARTIN-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JANIS-MARTIN-M-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/JANIS-MARTIN-M-Review-SeptOct-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>JANIS MARTIN<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>The Blanco Sessions<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>cowislandmusic.com<\/p>\n<p>Rockabilly pioneer Janis Martin\u2014dubbed \u201cthe female Elvis\u201d during her brief \u201950s heyday\u2014died in 2007, but not before teaming with producer Rosie Flores, one of the genre\u2019s finest revivalists, for one final session. After Martin\u2019s death, Flores struggled for years to shop the album, and she ultimately financed this release via a Kickstarter campaign. The result is a bittersweet 11-song set\u2014proof that this overlooked Virginia singer still had something to give. She\u2019s great on the sock-hop rockers, keeping pace with the zippy guitars and chattering piano, but it\u2019s the country ballad \u201cSweet Dreams\u201d that inspires her bluest\u2014and perhaps therefore truest\u2014notes. May they ring out for years.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANIS MARTIN The Blanco Sessions cowislandmusic.com Rockabilly pioneer Janis Martin\u2014dubbed \u201cthe female Elvis\u201d during her brief \u201950s heyday\u2014died in 2007, but not before teaming with producer Rosie Flores, one of the genre\u2019s finest revivalists, for one final session. After Martin\u2019s death, Flores struggled for years to shop the album, and she ultimately financed this release [&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":[196,5165,10159,5163,5077,5164],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786"}],"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=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7788,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/7788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}