{"id":10575,"date":"2016-04-06T05:45:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10575"},"modified":"2016-04-01T16:34:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-01T20:34:38","slug":"album-mini-review-bill-pritchard-mother-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/06\/album-mini-review-bill-pritchard-mother-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Bill Pritchard &#8212; Mother Town Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pritchard_town.jpg\" alt=\"pritchard_town\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pritchard_town.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/pritchard_town-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nFile next to: Ray Davies, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/04\/20\/lloyd-cole-standards-and-deviation\/\"><b>Lloyd Cole<\/b><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/10\/some-words-with-martin-newell-the-greatest-living-englishman-part-one\/\"><b>Martin Newell<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=ss_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B018J9VJHQ&#038;asins=B018J9VJHQ&#038;linkId=5277PU7HQHL5HPDM&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite having released nine albums since 1987, England-based Bill Pritchard isn&#8217;t well-known at home , much less here in the USA: he&#8217;s developed a sizable following in France, of all places. His music has the wry storytelling vibe of Nick Lowe, and his expressive baritone has been described as midway between Squeeze&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/10\/album-review-chris-difford-cashmere-if-you-can\/\"><b>Chris Difford<\/b><\/a> and<b> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/19\/robyn-hitchcock-vinyl-is-forever\/\">Robyn Hitchcock<\/a><\/b>. His songwriting is sharp and focused. Songs like <i>Mother Town Hall<\/i>&#8216;s opening track \u201cSaturn and Co.\u201d \u2013 slyly referencing his late 80s minor hit \u201cTommy &amp; Co.\u201d \u2013 have deeply memorable hooks, often helped along by some lovely vocal la-la-las. Though his jangling style has roots in the 80s alternative pop world, there&#8217;s a timeless feel to his songs that elevates them far beyond genre. The left-handed guitarist makes superb use of subtle textures \u2013 tinkling electric pianos, brushed drums \u2013 to deliver his winning melodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Ray Davies, Lloyd Cole, Martin Newell Despite having released nine albums since 1987, England-based Bill Pritchard isn&#8217;t well-known at home , much less here in the USA: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[2660],"class_list":["post-10575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-bill-pritchard","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10577,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10575\/revisions\/10577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}