{"id":68868,"date":"2016-09-28T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/singer-songwriter-performs-oct-7-at-pub\/"},"modified":"2016-09-28T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T20:49:11","slug":"singer-songwriter-performs-oct-7-at-pub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/singer-songwriter-performs-oct-7-at-pub\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer songwriter performs Oct. 7 at pub"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=5b4f9a52-1cec-46ea-936f-8ad7253769ed&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1778\" alt=\"Abney\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Abney<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Musician John Calvin Abney will play the Dolores River Brewery the evening of Oct. 7.<\/p>\n<p>Abney originally made his name as a rowdy sideman, playing guitar, pedal steel, keys and drums for a number of other acts. \u201cThanks to years of extensive touring, both solo and as a gun for hire, Abney is possessed of some impressive instrumental stage chops,\u201d states his website.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, it\u2019s lyricism where Abney finds his inspiration, with encouragement from a host of Oklahoma songwriters in close proximity.<\/p>\n<p>His 2014 and 2015 releases, \u201cEmpty Candles\u201d and \u201cBetter Luck,\u201d find him abandoning his backseat post in favor of plaintive love songs and the misadventures of a handful of colorful invented characters.<\/p>\n<p>There are glimpses of technical prowess in this new chapter, but now with an intent focus on storytelling. \u201cVice Versa Suite\u201d marked his second release of 2015, and placed Abney further into a realm of introspective songwriting and piano composition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFew songwriters can weave so seamlessly in and out of genre that listeners are left wondering if they indeed heard what they thought they heard. And if they listen again, they\u2019re likely to hear something else,\u201d according to his website. \u201cAbney\u2019s songs can be both frenetic and meditative, deeply affectionate and mired in loneliness, and, like Abney himself, both road-weary and ready for adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a review, No Depression says Abney is a promising young singer songwriter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbney is long in the tooth by way of licks, melodies, and catchy bubblegum-laced indie folk,\u201d the review says. \u201cThese songs are modern folk gems, filtered through Guthrie haunted Oklahoma dust and a well traveled young troubadour\u2019s modern thoughts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sideman takes center stage at brewery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[44,5334],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dolores","tag-folk-music"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68868"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}