{"id":443,"date":"2011-04-13T18:41:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-13T22:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=443"},"modified":"2011-04-13T19:11:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-13T23:11:08","slug":"play-it-sam-play-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/04\/play-it-sam-play-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Play It, Sam, Play It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some music critics have <a href=\"http:\/\/nightafternight.blogs.com\/night_after_night\/2006\/05\/sitting_and_spi.html\">a habit<\/a> of making public <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therestisnoise.com\/2011\/04\/playlist.html\">lists<\/a> of what they&#8217;re listening to, but even the <a href=\"http:\/\/sohothedog.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/weekend-insomnia-playlist.html\">self-described obsessives<\/a> with &#8220;short&#8221; lists on repeat got nothin&#8217; on me, a frequent one-album-at-a-time-thank-you-very-much kinda girl. This is something of a twisted truth, since it doesn&#8217;t count the listening I do specifically for work. Personal preferences aside, the realities there dictate that music consumption be done in a very organized, task-oriented manner. Writing a record review or preparing for an interview, etc. is another business altogether. And perhaps my after-hours listening habits are just my brain&#8217;s way of pleading for a little stability in the old ear pans once the day&#8217;s work is done, but I like to dig around when left to my own devices&#8230;and dig, and dig, and dig.<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am seriously stuck on Holcombe Waller&#8217;s <em>Into the Dark Unknown<\/em>. His voice has a very distinct timbre that appeals to me, and his lyrics resonate inside generally delicate orchestration, delivering meaning that grows and morphs on repeated listenings. <\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/20923358?portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/8786400?portrait=0\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>On balance and whatever my neighbors might tell you, this album-on-repeat is still better than my last rut, which consisted of a single song. What can I say: I was Suzuki trained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some music critics have a habit of making public lists of what they&#8217;re listening to, but even the self-described obsessives with &#8220;short&#8221; lists on repeat got nothin&#8217; on me, a frequent one-album-at-a-time-thank-you-very-much kinda girl. This is something of a twisted truth, since it doesn&#8217;t count the listening I do specifically for work. Personal preferences aside, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,42,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-443","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-holcombe-waller","9":"tag-into-the-dark-unknown","10":"tag-music-critics","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}