{"id":9767,"date":"2013-05-08T09:47:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9767"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T16:47:01","slug":"charles-walker-the-dynamites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/charles-walker-the-dynamites\/","title":{"rendered":"CHARLES WALKER &#038; THE DYNAMITES"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9768\" alt=\"CHARLES-WALKER-and-THE-DYNAMITES-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHARLES-WALKER-and-THE-DYNAMITES-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHARLES-WALKER-and-THE-DYNAMITES-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/CHARLES-WALKER-and-THE-DYNAMITES-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>CHARLES WALKER &amp; THE DYNAMITES<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Love Is Only Everything<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>thedynamites.net<\/p>\n<p>Pair a 70-something soul survivor with a pack of reverent young virtuosos, and you\u2019ve got a couple of options. One is to make gritty, lo-fi recordings slavishly indebted to some romanticized past. The other is to admit the times have changed and go slightly more modern, and that\u2019s what Nashville\u2019s Dynamites and their veteran frontman do here. Walker was buds with James Brown back in the day, and at times\u2014the gnawed-on, elongated syllables he strings together on \u201cPlease Open Up the Door\u201d\u2014he barks with something resembling the Godfather\u2019s hanky-soaking ferocity. Mostly, though, Walker and the \u2019Mites smooth it out, doing funky vintage soul with designs on making us dance, not marvel at their authenticity. Wise choice.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHARLES WALKER &amp; THE DYNAMITES Love Is Only Everything thedynamites.net Pair a 70-something soul survivor with a pack of reverent young virtuosos, and you\u2019ve got a couple of options. One is to make gritty, lo-fi recordings slavishly indebted to some romanticized past. The other is to admit the times have changed and go slightly more [&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":[196,6501,10159,6502,6467,6503],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767"}],"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=9767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9769,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9767\/revisions\/9769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}