{"id":6587,"date":"2013-03-20T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T16:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=6587"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T17:52:36","slug":"new-music-revue-billy-bragg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/03\/20\/new-music-revue-billy-bragg\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>New Music Revue<\/em>: Billy Bragg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-6588 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg-110x110.jpg 110w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg-180x179.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/bragg.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Billy Bragg<\/p>\n<p><i>Tooth and Nail<\/i><\/p>\n<p>(Dine Alone Records)<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><i>Tooth and Nail<\/i>, Billy Bragg\u2019s first studio solo album in five years, is definitely a lot more listenable and thoughtful than past albums, but it doesn\u2019t quite stand up next to the three <i>Mermaid Avenue<\/i> albums he did with Wilco, where they used Woody Guthrie lyrics.<\/p>\n<p>Bragg writes the kind of protest songs that are usually heard mid-day at folk festivals. The new album is a little outdated and is clearly not targeted towards the modern youth, but it does have a lot to say.<\/p>\n<p>The album is politically charged and has clear inspirational and anti-establishment messages about empowering the people and not being tied down by the illusions of being dependent on society\u00c9 if you\u2019re into that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p>Much better than the protest songs are the romantic songs on the album: they are charmingly corny, humbly hokey, and quite thoughtful.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s very apparent that <i>Tooth and Nail<\/i> is the album of an aging freedom fighter.<\/p>\n<p>-Nick Joy<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billy Bragg Tooth and Nail (Dine Alone Records) 3.5\/5 &nbsp; Tooth and Nail, Billy Bragg\u2019s first studio solo album in five years, is definitely a lot more listenable and thoughtful than past albums, but it doesn\u2019t quite stand up next to the three Mermaid Avenue albums he did with Wilco, where they used Woody Guthrie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-20-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6587"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6591,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6587\/revisions\/6591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}