{"id":16581,"date":"2019-03-30T05:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T09:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=16581"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:38:12","slug":"single-review-y-dan-rubenstein-dont-break-what-you-cannot-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/30\/single-review-y-dan-rubenstein-dont-break-what-you-cannot-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: Y. Dan Rubenstein \u2013 \u201cDon\u2019t Break What You Cannot Fix\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16582\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/y_dan_rubenstein.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/y_dan_rubenstein.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/y_dan_rubenstein-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/y_dan_rubenstein-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>An alluring Latin jazz feel provides the foundation of Rubenstein\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Break What You Cannot Fix.\u201d intricate guitar lines flit in and out of the arrangement, but as alluring as the music is, the Bay Area singer would have listeners focus on his lyrics. The song is a spoken-sung conversation between two lovers, but it\u2019s really more of an allegory for something larger. The dialogue doesn&#8217;t really ring true for an informal conversation (\u201cYou\u2019ll tire my dear of this constant fear\u201d); perhaps it should be thought of more as a vignettes from series of handwritten letters sent through the mail. That idea \u2013 quaint as it is in 2019 \u2013 feels about right for the tune. Without hearing more \u2013 only this single was provided for review \u2013 it\u2019s hard to get a handle on this artist\u2019s musical worldview. But there are enough subtle hints here to suggest that it\u2019s literate and perhaps worthy of further investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An alluring Latin jazz feel provides the foundation of Rubenstein\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Break What You Cannot Fix.\u201d intricate guitar lines flit in and out of the arrangement, but as alluring as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,42,49,65],"tags":[3807],"class_list":["post-16581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-folk","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-y-dan-rubenstein","cat-30-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581","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=16581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16583,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16581\/revisions\/16583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}