{"id":11413,"date":"2016-09-05T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11413"},"modified":"2016-09-06T07:56:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T11:56:46","slug":"album-mini-review-paul-kelly-seven-sonnets-a-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/05\/album-mini-review-paul-kelly-seven-sonnets-a-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Paul Kelly &#8212; Seven Sonnets &#038; a Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paul_kelly_sonnets.jpg\" alt=\"paul_kelly_sonnets\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paul_kelly_sonnets.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/paul_kelly_sonnets-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe style=\"float: right; 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=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01DO5UCXW&#038;asins=B01DO5UCXW&#038;linkId=8b2adb3d3dcdae59d87a77839926f048&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File next to: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/04\/16\/ask-me-some-questions-the-graham-parker-interview-part-1\/\"><strong>Graham Parker<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Richard Thompson<\/strong>, <strong>Davey Graham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Australian treasure <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/26\/album-review-paul-kellys-greatest-hits\/\">Paul Kelly<\/a> has long been recognized as a consummate songwriter; more than most others who&#8217;ve tried, he bridges the chasm between singer\/songwriter, country\/roots artist and rocker. In recent years, he&#8217;s moved in some rather ambitious directions, including 2014&#8217;s <i>The Merri Soul Sessions<\/i> in which he largely ceded vocal duties to other singers. Kelly&#8217;s outside-the-box aesthetic shines with his latest, an EP-length project that sets the poetry of one <strong>William Shakespeare<\/strong> to music. With a decidedly Americana-esque musical sensibility \u2013 as opposed to the more obvious UK folk\/Elizabethan angle \u2013 Kelly sings familiar lines like \u201cShall I compare thee to a summer&#8217;s day?\u201d (\u201cSonnet 18\u201d) in a manner that suggests the bard wrote those lines to be sung, not spoken. <i>The Merri Soul Sessions<\/i> guest <strong>Vika Bull<\/strong> returns to sing an adaptation of \u201cMy True Love Hath My Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Graham Parker, Richard Thompson, Davey Graham Australian treasure Paul Kelly has long been recognized as a consummate songwriter; more than most others who&#8217;ve tried, he bridges the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[1662],"class_list":["post-11413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-paul-kelly","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413","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=11413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11415,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11413\/revisions\/11415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}