{"id":10752,"date":"2016-05-09T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10752"},"modified":"2016-05-08T15:41:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T19:41:00","slug":"album-mini-review-charles-bradley-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/09\/album-mini-review-charles-bradley-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Charles Bradley &#8212; Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10753\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/charles_bradley_changes.jpg\" alt=\"charles_bradley_changes\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/charles_bradley_changes.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/charles_bradley_changes-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01AH77AT4&amp;asins=B01AH77AT4&amp;linkId=a9775ef7c0480226f1c407c8d2b19cf1&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <b>James Brown<\/b>, <b>Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-kings<\/b>, <b>Eli Paperboy Reed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/18\/concert-review-charles-bradley-and-the-extraordinaires-ashevile-nc-april-18-2013\/\"><strong>Charles Bradley<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s third full length, the \u201cscreaming eagle of soul\u201d shows himself to be a fascinating interpreter of diverse material, as evidenced in his soulful reading of <b>Black Sabbath<\/b>&#8216;s \u201cChanges.\u201d Bradley mines a sense of pathos that Ozzy&#8217;s vocal merely hinted at; he truly makes the song his own. A rare misstep is the disc opener: doubtless Bradley is sincere with his reading of \u201cGod Bless America,\u201d but it comes off a bit maudlin. Throughout <i>Changes<\/i>, he&#8217;s ably backed by a Memphis-styled brass section; they dip into the <b>Seals &amp; Crofts<\/b> playbook for \u201cNobody But You,\u201d and the band chugs along sounding very much like the <b>Jimi Hendrix Experience<\/b> (plus horns) on the fiery \u201cAin&#8217;t it a Sin.\u201d <i>Changes<\/i> shows that Fitzgerald was wrong about American lives; there actually <i>can<\/i> be second acts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: James Brown, Sharon Jones &amp; the Dap-kings, Eli Paperboy Reed On Charles Bradley&#8216;s third full length, the \u201cscreaming eagle of soul\u201d shows himself to be a fascinating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65,69],"tags":[493],"class_list":["post-10752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-review","category-soul","tag-charles-bradley","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752","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=10752"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10755,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10752\/revisions\/10755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}