{"id":6832,"date":"2014-12-15T05:38:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6832"},"modified":"2014-12-15T05:38:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:38:38","slug":"album-review-bill-frisell-guitar-in-the-space-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/15\/album-review-bill-frisell-guitar-in-the-space-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Bill Frisell &#8212; Guitar in the Space Age!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/frisell_space.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Bill Frisell \u2013 <\/strong><em><strong>Guitar in the Space Age!<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s some free advice: don&#8217;t get into a discussion with a hardcore fan if you&#8217;re underwhelmed by their hero&#8217;s latest album. I made that mistake. Though the guitarist is widely revered for his work in countless styles, here he traffics in what I would have to call \u201ceasy listening.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4242\">Frisell<\/a> covers songs that have influenced him, and while he does so in note-perfect fashion, his arrangements are&#8230;inoffensive. Frisell&#8217;s playing can be mightily exciting when he wishes it to be; on this outing, that goal seems to have been far from his mind. Excellent for what it is, yet somewhat dull.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Frisell \u2013 Guitar in the Space Age! Here&#8217;s some free advice: don&#8217;t get into a discussion with a hardcore fan if you&#8217;re underwhelmed by their hero&#8217;s latest album. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,65],"tags":[313],"class_list":["post-6832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-review","tag-bill-frisell","cat-49-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","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=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}