{"id":908,"date":"2010-08-16T09:10:48","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=908"},"modified":"2010-08-16T09:10:48","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T16:10:48","slug":"jim-lauderdale-patchwork-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/jim-lauderdale-patchwork-river\/","title":{"rendered":"JIM LAUDERDALE + Patchwork River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Patchwork-River-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-909\" title=\"Patchwork-River-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Patchwork-River-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Patchwork River\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Patchwork-River-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Patchwork-River-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>J<\/strong><strong>IM LAUDERDALE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Patchwork River<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Thirty Tigers]<\/p>\n<p>Veteran singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale collaborated with legendary Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter for <em>Patchwork River<\/em>, and the result is a lovably twisted genre piece. Always an evocative singer, Lauderdale clearly relishes biting off existential verses such as \u201cWhat do you get when you cross the street against the light with a cyclone fence?\u201d In the best Dead tradition, Lauderdale and Hunter\u2019s songs vividly conjure up a sense of time and place. The dusty-sounding \u201cEl Dorado\u201d evokes the arid landscape of Twentynine Palms, \u201cLouisville Roll\u201d transplants a slow-cooking Memphis groove to the shores of the Ohio River, and the Cosmic American sound of \u201cFar in the Far Away\u201d could have been cooked up in Gram Parsons\u2019 old motel room at Joshua Tree (thanks in part to former Parsons sidemen Al Perkins on steel and James Burton on guitar). In his unassuming fashion, Lauderdale has turned in another delicious set of tunes whose roots run commendably deep.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Bob Cannon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIM LAUDERDALE Patchwork River [Thirty Tigers] Veteran singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale collaborated with legendary Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter for Patchwork River, and the result is a lovably twisted genre piece. Always an evocative singer, Lauderdale clearly relishes biting off existential verses such as \u201cWhat do you get when you cross the street against the light [&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":[196,518,80,519,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908"}],"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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}