{"id":6839,"date":"2014-12-15T05:41:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6839"},"modified":"2014-12-15T05:41:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:41:55","slug":"album-review-thom-douvan-brother-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/15\/album-review-thom-douvan-brother-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Thom Douvan &#8212; Brother Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/thom_douvan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Thom Douvan \u2013 <\/strong><em><strong>Brother Brother<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nA (perhaps) surprising number of the Detroit players known as <strong>The Funk Brothers<\/strong> were actually white guys. One of &#8217;em was guitarist Thom Douvan. In this 2014 album Douvan pays tribute to the team of session players in the form of an album full of cover tunes. Mostly done in a smooth (but not too smooth) jazz style, <em>Brother Brother<\/em> features readings of classic soul (and\/or soulful) tunes from the likes of <strong>The Isley Brothers<\/strong>, <strong>Hall and Oates<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=2981\"><strong>Donny Hathaway<\/strong><\/a> and other greats. Imagine if <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> played instro jazz covers, and you&#8217;ll have an idea of how this sounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><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>Thom Douvan \u2013 Brother Brother A (perhaps) surprising number of the Detroit players known as The Funk Brothers were actually white guys. One of &#8217;em was guitarist Thom Douvan. In [&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":[40,42,49,65],"tags":[2201],"class_list":["post-6839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-new-release","category-review","tag-thom-douvan","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}