{"id":9747,"date":"2013-05-08T09:37:42","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:37:42","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:37:42","slug":"the-rev-jimmie-bratcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/the-rev-jimmie-bratcher\/","title":{"rendered":"THE REV. JIMMIE BRATCHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9748\" alt=\"THE-REV-JIMMIE-BRATCHER-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/THE-REV-JIMMIE-BRATCHER-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/THE-REV-JIMMIE-BRATCHER-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/THE-REV-JIMMIE-BRATCHER-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE REV. JIMMIE BRATCHER<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Secretly Famous<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>jimmiebratcher.com<\/p>\n<p>The God-versus-devil dynamic one might expect from a Midwestern preacher who\u2019s also an ace blues guitarist doesn\u2019t really come into play here, and that\u2019s fine\u2014there are plenty of conflicted souls making the rounds, exorcising demons through music. Bratcher is mostly upbeat on these dozen tunes, and even when he\u2019s not\u2014\u201dWhen I Fall Apart,\u201d \u201cNowhere to Go but Down\u201d\u2014he\u2019s a long way from lowdown. For Bratcher, the blues signify comfort, and he\u2019s most natural on the optimistic pop-rock tune \u201cStarting All Over Again\u201d and funky barroom swingers \u201cFeels Like Friday\u201d and \u201cCheck Your Blues at the Door.\u201d His fretwork is fluid and assured, mean but never nasty. Come Sunday morning, there\u2019s nothing to atone for.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE REV. JIMMIE BRATCHER Secretly Famous jimmiebratcher.com The God-versus-devil dynamic one might expect from a Midwestern preacher who\u2019s also an ace blues guitarist doesn\u2019t really come into play here, and that\u2019s fine\u2014there are plenty of conflicted souls making the rounds, exorcising demons through music. Bratcher is mostly upbeat on these dozen tunes, and even when [&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":[196,10159,6488,6467,6487,6486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"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=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9749,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}