{"id":3910,"date":"2014-09-30T14:02:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/christopher-owens-peddles-tepid-country-ballads-on-a-new-testament\/"},"modified":"2014-09-30T14:02:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T14:02:59","slug":"christopher-owens-peddles-tepid-country-ballads-on-a-new-testament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/30\/christopher-owens-peddles-tepid-country-ballads-on-a-new-testament\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Owens peddles tepid country ballads on A New Testament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Christopher Owens peddles tepid country ballads on A New Testament<\/strong><br \/>\nFor all of Owens&#39; more introspective <b>songwriting<\/b> tendencies, records like Girls&#39; debut, Album, benefited from bombast. That record&#39;s definitive and representative &#8230; There&#39;s \u201cIt Comes Back To You,\u201d a languid cut that mines that most clich\u00e9 <b>songwriting<\/b> <b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/review\/christopher-owens-peddles-tepid-country-ballads-ne-209617\">A.V. Club DC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Voice recap: We&#39;re all friends here<\/strong><br \/>\nBefore his performance, Blessing, despite his <b>soul<\/b> sound, expressed his interest in Blake&#39;s coaching on the basis of <b>songwriting<\/b>. Blessing seemed to continue to lean that way when he told Blake that he went to Belmont University in Nashville. It gets <b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/tvrecaps.ew.com\/recap\/the-voice-season-7-episode-3\/\">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Review: Sam Smith delights capacity crowd in Oakland<\/strong><br \/>\nThe 22-year-old British <b>soul<\/b> singer-<b>songwriter<\/b> is one of the year&#39;s big breakthrough artists, having sent the buzz machine into overdrive with the release of his debut full-length studio album, &quot;In the Lonely Hour.&quot; His success on the charts is <b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.contracostatimes.com\/breaking-news\/ci_26626621\/review-sam-smith-delights-capacity-crowd-oakland\">Contra Costa Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Writer of the Week: Jonah Tolchin<\/strong><br \/>\nWe caught up with him again recently and chatted with him about his new album Clover Lane, his <b>songwriting<\/b> heroes and his all-time \u201cdream co-writer.\u201d &#8230; Both of those songs are timeless and provoke a very nostalgic emotion in my <b>soul<\/b>\u2026 A feeling of <b>&#8230;<\/b><br \/>\n<i>Read more on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.americansongwriter.com\/2014\/09\/writer-week-jonah-tolchin\/\">American Songwriter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Owens peddles tepid country ballads on A New Testament For all of Owens&#39; more introspective songwriting tendencies, records like Girls&#39; debut, Album, benefited from [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildsongwriter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}