{"id":13010,"date":"2017-07-25T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13010"},"modified":"2017-07-25T08:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T12:11:33","slug":"album-mini-review-russ-tolman-compass-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/25\/album-mini-review-russ-tolman-compass-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Russ Tolman &#8212; Compass &#038; Map"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13011\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tolman_compass_map.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tolman_compass_map.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tolman_compass_map-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/tolman_compass_map-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>File next to: Dream Syndicate, late-period Byrds<\/p>\n<p>True West swam in the rootsier, countrified end of the 1980s \u201cpaisley underground\u201d pool. Once that band folded, founder-guitarist-singer Russ Tolman began a solo career; to date he&#8217;s released seven albums of new music and several singles. But most of that material was released in Europe and largely unavailable in the U.S. <i>Compass &amp; Map<\/i> isn&#8217;t a greatest-hits collection \u2013 Tolman&#8217;s always been a semi-underground artist \u2013 but taken together, the 20 track on the disc sound a lot like one. Tolman&#8217;s sometimes wobbly vocals suit his jangling, often proto-Americana tunes, and quite a few of the songs rock, too. Almost certainly designed as a reintroduction of his work ahead of a new album schedule for release later this year, <em>Compass &amp; Map<\/em> succeeds on that level as well as a collection of new (or new to most listeners) songs from this fine songwriter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Dream Syndicate, late-period Byrds True West swam in the rootsier, countrified end of the 1980s \u201cpaisley underground\u201d pool. Once that band folded, founder-guitarist-singer Russ Tolman began a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13011,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,19,49,62,65],"tags":[3105,3106],"class_list":["post-13010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americana","category-compilation","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-russ-tolman","tag-true-west","cat-6-id","cat-19-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010","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=13010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13012,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13010\/revisions\/13012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}