{"id":8008,"date":"2012-11-11T16:39:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T23:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8008"},"modified":"2012-11-11T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:55:19","slug":"anderson-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/11\/anderson-east\/","title":{"rendered":"ANDERSON EAST"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8009\" title=\"Anderson-East-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Anderson-East-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Anderson-East-SeptOct-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Anderson-East-SeptOct-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1>ANDERSON EAST<\/h1>\n<p>HOMETOWN: Athens, Ala.<br \/>\nINFLUENCES: Led Zeppelin, the Jackson 5,\u00a0Otis Redding<br \/>\nALBUM: <em>Flowers of the Broken Hearted<\/em>,\u00a0out now<br \/>\nWEBSITE: andersoneast.com<\/p>\n<p>Folk-rock singer-songwriter Anderson East didn\u2019t grow up in a musical household. \u201cThe only time I heard music in the house was Sunday morning before church, when my dad would listen to country music,\u201d he says. His hometown of Athens, Ala., wasn\u2019t exactly a hotbed of entertainment. \u201cIt was a tiny Southern town with no music scene at all,\u201d he says. \u201cAll I remember hearing was talk radio.\u201d No matter, East displayed promise when he began playing guitar and piano as a child. After graduating with an audio engineering degree from Middle Tennessee State University, East performed gigs throughout the Southeast. Eventually he released his debut album, <em>Flowers of the Broken Hearted<\/em>\u2014a two-disc set that ranges from blues to country to folk. The first half, <em>White<\/em>, was recorded in L.A. while the second, <em>Red<\/em>, was self-produced in Nashville. \u201cIt was very organic,\u201d East says of the recording process. \u201cThe song told\u00a0me what the music was going to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSON EAST HOMETOWN: Athens, Ala. INFLUENCES: Led Zeppelin, the Jackson 5,\u00a0Otis Redding ALBUM: Flowers of the Broken Hearted,\u00a0out now WEBSITE: andersoneast.com Folk-rock singer-songwriter Anderson East didn\u2019t grow up in a musical household. \u201cThe only time I heard music in the house was Sunday morning before church, when my dad would listen to country music,\u201d he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[5394,5397,5396,4315,3822,5395],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008"}],"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=8008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8013,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8008\/revisions\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}