{"id":77,"date":"2005-07-25T01:06:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-25T08:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=77"},"modified":"2005-07-25T01:06:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-25T08:06:00","slug":"from_down_under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/07\/from_down_under\/","title":{"rendered":"From Down Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is a challenge to create eleven songs on demand, which is why so many albums consisting entirely of originals are less than compelling. The success rate is  high in <a href=\"http:\/\/db.cadencebuilding.com\/searchresults\/?any_last_names_option=starts&#038;any_last_names=&#038;any_first_names_option=contains&#038;any_first_names=&#038;title_option=contains&#038;title=sense+of+wonder&#038;label_option=contains&#038;Label=&#038;price_option=lte&#038;Price=&#038;Number=&#038;type=&#038;max_count=100&#038;offset_count=1&#038;sort_order=artist&#038;Search=Search&#038;action=advancedsearch\"target=\"_blank\"><em>A Sense Of Wonder<\/em><\/a>, a compact disc of songs written by the veteran Australian tenor saxophonist Laurie Lewis and his lyricist wife Alwyn. Young Heather Stewart sings the songs with a sweet innocence. She handles lyrics well and has good intonation, not an epidemic among vocalists.  The jewel of the collection is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Ask.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I am also taken with the regretful \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rather Than Love\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the title song. Lewis, pianist Mark Fitzgibbon and guitarist Doug de Vries have relaxed solos throughout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is a challenge to create eleven songs on demand, which is why so many albums consisting entirely of originals are less than compelling. The success rate is high in A Sense Of Wonder, a compact disc of songs written by the veteran Australian tenor saxophonist Laurie Lewis and his lyricist wife Alwyn. Young Heather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}