{"id":21260,"date":"2021-07-11T05:30:07","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T09:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=21260"},"modified":"2021-07-09T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T18:53:18","slug":"album-review-josh-hoyer-soul-colossal-natural-born-hustler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/11\/album-review-josh-hoyer-soul-colossal-natural-born-hustler\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal \u2013 Natural Born Hustler"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Color Red label has quickly and effectively established itself as the home of current-day retro-soul\/boogaloo, issued on good ol\u2019 vinyl. Some of the artists \u2013 Color Red\u2019s founder Eddie Roberts, for example \u2013 are well-known. Others, like Josh Hoyer, less so. The thing is, Color Red\u2019s track record is such that I\u2019m more than inclined to check out a new (or new-to-me) artist if said artist has the label\u2019s effective seal of approval.<\/p>\n

Lucky me. Because this album is rock solid. With a voice that reminds ever-so-slightly of David Clayton-Thomas (Blood Sweat & Tears) crossed with a less histrionic Joe Cocker, Hoyer is a commanding presence. And the band is, in a word, supatight<\/i>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all beefy, fur-on-the-floor music, either. The aptly-titled \u201cWhisper\u201d is a sultry slow burn that underscores the fact that subtlety can speak loudly. There\u2019s a Southern soul\/pop vibe to these songs, one that suggests Stax\/Hi influence, but in its execution, the music doesn\u2019t ape the tropes or sonic cues of Memphis (great and immortal as they may be). Time spent with this album will be rewarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Color Red label has quickly and effectively established itself as the home of current-day retro-soul\/boogaloo, issued on good ol\u2019 vinyl. Some of the artists \u2013 Color Red\u2019s founder Eddie […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65,69,73],"tags":[4585],"class_list":["post-21260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-review","category-soul","category-vinyl","tag-josh-hoyer","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-69-id","cat-73-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260","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=21260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21262,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21260\/revisions\/21262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}