{"id":26819,"date":"2024-01-28T05:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=26819"},"modified":"2024-01-17T12:46:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:46:00","slug":"album-review-david-greenberger-the-huckleberries-universal-preservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/28\/album-review-david-greenberger-the-huckleberries-universal-preservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: David Greenberger &#038; the Huckleberries \u2013 Universal Preservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26820\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/greenberger_universal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/greenberger_universal.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/greenberger_universal-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>David Greenberger is a most singular artist. His music features his spoken-word vocals, backed by spare, tuneful instrumentation. This set is based on conversations Greenberger had with residents of two senior citizen residences. The music often delivers a character in keeping wit the subject matter, but these pieces are often more vignettes than actual songs.<\/p>\n<p>Greenberger\u2019s approach leans toward the deadpan side, though he\u2019s never, ever disrespectful of those from whom he has drawn these \u201cstorylets.\u201d If one doesn\u2019t listen closely, there are elements of Garrison Keillor in the music and voice. But this artist is so unique that it\u2019s unfair to liken his work to anything any else is doing.<\/p>\n<p>Far, far, <i>far<\/i> from the mainstream, <i>Universal Preservation<\/i> is nonetheless intriguing, inviting and endearing. Listeners who are up for something <i>very<\/i> different are advised to give this disc \u2013 or any of the prolific Greenberger\u2019s other releases \u2013 a spin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Greenberger is a most singular artist. His music features his spoken-word vocals, backed by spare, tuneful instrumentation. This set is based on conversations Greenberger had with residents of two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65,71],"tags":[636],"class_list":["post-26819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-review","category-spoken-word","tag-david-greenberger","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","cat-71-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26819","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=26819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26821,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26819\/revisions\/26821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}