{"id":2659,"date":"2002-09-09T07:37:03","date_gmt":"2002-09-09T05:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/09\/review-of-john-does-cd-doe-on-tour-cd-info\/"},"modified":"2002-09-09T07:37:03","modified_gmt":"2002-09-09T05:37:03","slug":"review-of-john-does-cd-doe-on-tour-cd-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2002\/09\/review-of-john-does-cd-doe-on-tour-cd-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of John Doe&#8217;s CD; Doe on tour &#038; CD Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Thanks to MyrnaLynne for this :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n(Boston) Metro newspaper, page 18, Sept 6, 2002, review of John Doe&#8217;s new CD<br \/>\n&#8220;Dim Stars, Bright Sky&#8221; by Ken Capobianco (small photo of Doe with glasses,<br \/>\ndroopy moustache and soul patch)<\/p>\n<p>The former leader of (band) X continues his solo career with a mostly acoustic<br \/>\nset of solid, if unspectacular, love songs. Doe adds the harmonies and co-lead<br \/>\nvocals of the likes of Juliana Hatfield, Aimee Man, Jane Wiedlin and Jakob<br \/>\nDylan. The problem is that the singer\/songwriter, with co-producers Joe Henry<br \/>\nand Dave Way, bury these artists in the mix and they barely register. The best<br \/>\nsongs like &#8220;Faraway (From the North Country)&#8221; and the country-tinged lament<br \/>\n&#8220;Employee of the Month&#8221; feature Doe alone and he gives them an emotional depth<br \/>\nsome of the other tunes don&#8217;t have. The music is spare &#8211; acoustic guitars and<br \/>\nlilting piano dominate and the record has an intimate quality more reflective of<br \/>\nX&#8217;s later years or Doe&#8217;s work with the Knitters. Ultimately, Doe has always had<br \/>\na keen understanding of how fragile relationships can be and how much love&#8217;s in<br \/>\nneed of love today and many of these songs get it right.<br \/>\n* * *<\/p>\n<p>John Doe is appearing September 24 in concert at Somerville (Mass.) Theatre.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to Stef for this :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nJohn Doe has a new CD, &#8220;Dim Stars Bright Sky&#8221; comes out, next Tuesday, September 10, 2002, if anyone is interested<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to MyrnaLynne for this :) (Boston) Metro newspaper, page 18, Sept 6, 2002, review of John Doe&#8217;s new CD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1147,92,1146],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-supporting","tag-cd","tag-john-doe","tag-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}