{"id":9775,"date":"2013-05-08T10:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9775"},"modified":"2013-05-08T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:03:35","slug":"john-murry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/john-murry\/","title":{"rendered":"JOHN MURRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9776\" alt=\"JOHN-MURRY-M-Review-No26\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JOHN-MURRY-M-Review-No26.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JOHN-MURRY-M-Review-No26.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JOHN-MURRY-M-Review-No26-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>JOHN MURRY<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>The Graceless Age<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>johnmurry.com<\/p>\n<p>On one level, there\u2019s a shuffling, off-the-cuff feel to John Murry\u2019s music. Singing songs about heartache and heroin addiction, he\u2019s got the laid-back strum and rough, jaded delivery of a been-there, took-that, lived-to-tell troubadour. But there\u2019s nothing casual about <i>The Graceless Age<\/i>, an album of dense, meticulous sonic collages masquerading as alt-country tunes. Murry\u2019s backstory is as cluttered\u2014or rich, rather\u2014as his arrangements. Born in Tupelo, he\u2019s the second cousin of novelist William Faulkner. He nearly died in San Francisco of an overdose, and he stuffs this album with personal baggage and Southern Gothic imagery invoking his family history. It\u2019s a lot to unpack, but it\u2019s well worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHN MURRY The Graceless Age johnmurry.com On one level, there\u2019s a shuffling, off-the-cuff feel to John Murry\u2019s music. Singing songs about heartache and heroin addiction, he\u2019s got the laid-back strum and rough, jaded delivery of a been-there, took-that, lived-to-tell troubadour. But there\u2019s nothing casual about The Graceless Age, an album of dense, meticulous sonic collages [&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":[196,10159,6507,6509,6467,6508],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775"}],"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=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9778,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}