{"id":950,"date":"2010-08-16T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T17:23:59","slug":"paul-thorn-pimps-and-preachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/paul-thorn-pimps-and-preachers\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUL THORN + Pimps and Preachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PAUL-THORN-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-953\" title=\"PAUL-THORN-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PAUL-THORN-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"PAUL THORN \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PAUL-THORN-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/PAUL-THORN-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>P<\/strong><strong>AUL THORN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pimps and Preachers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Perpetual Obscurity Records]<\/p>\n<p>Paul Thorn has been kicking around the edges of the Americana scene for years, opening for high-profile acts while never quite breaking through himself. It\u2019s not for lack of artistry. His latest is a collection of vivid songs that draw on the opposite impulses Thorn absorbed from his father and an uncle\u2014preacher and pimp, respectively\u2014and colored with his own wry outlook. Thorn takes comfort in human commonalities\u2014ups and downs, struggles and joys\u2014on opener \u201cYou\u2019re Not the Only One,\u201d extols a cure-all for heartache on \u201cTequila Is Good for the Heart\u201d and looks past hard times on \u201cBetter Days Ahead.\u201d Rootsy guitar lines drive these tunes, with accents here and there from piano, Hammond organ and mandolin. Thorn imparts wisdom in a gruff, soulful voice that has a playful edge on the twisted double entendre of \u201cWeeds in My Roses\u201d and takes on a respectful cast as he addresses his family influences on the title track.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAUL THORN Pimps and Preachers [Perpetual Obscurity Records] Paul Thorn has been kicking around the edges of the Americana scene for years, opening for high-profile acts while never quite breaking through himself. It\u2019s not for lack of artistry. His latest is a collection of vivid songs that draw on the opposite impulses Thorn absorbed from [&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":[196,80,553,555,554],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}