{"id":143,"date":"2008-05-09T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=143"},"modified":"2008-05-09T15:38:22","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T03:38:22","slug":"at-the-birchmere-a-good-not-good-night-for-was-not-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/?p=143","title":{"rendered":"At the Birchmere, a Good (Not Good) Night for Was (Not Was)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the Birchmere, the set was occasionally weakened by stereotypical arrangements with obligatory guitar solos and generic saxophone interludes. The combo sounded best when the focus was on the vocalists: the raspy soul of Sweet Pea Atkinson, the middle range of Sir Harry Bowens, and the falsetto of Donald Ray Mitchell. Mitchell&#8217;s lead made the new tragic ballad &#8220;From the Head to the Heart&#8221; work, while the three added church-rooted harmonies on several cuts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Review by Steve Kiviat at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/07\/AR2008050703557.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;At the Birchmere, the set was occasionally weakened by stereotypical arrangements with obligatory guitar solos and generic saxophone interludes. The combo sounded best when the focus was on the vocalists: the raspy soul of Sweet Pea Atkinson, the middle range of Sir Harry Bowens, and the falsetto of Donald Ray Mitchell. Mitchell&#8217;s lead made the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldwidewas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}