{"id":5432,"date":"2012-10-02T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=5432"},"modified":"2012-10-02T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T18:55:07","slug":"lindi-ortega-cigarettes-truckstops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/10\/02\/lindi-ortega-cigarettes-truckstops\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindi Ortega &#8211; Cigarettes &#038; Truckstops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5433\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/10\/02\/lindi-ortega-cigarettes-truckstops\/cigarettes-and-truckstops\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5433\" title=\"Cigarettes-and-Truckstops\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cigarettes-and-Truckstops-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6368983210995793\"><br \/>\nFrom the first tune through the final cut of <em>Cigarettes &amp; Truckstops<\/em>, Lindi Ortega\u2019s voice cuts through Colin Linden\u2019s thoughtful and bucolic production like a shot of 151.<!--more--> Vocal and production take centre stage on Ortega\u2019s sophomore release, giving nods to country music\u2019s blues roots while placing the characters in Ortega\u2019s tunes somewhere between then and now, at times with one foot in each camp. Ortega\u2019s songwriting is strong throughout. Opening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dxVh7D2aoJ0\" target=\"_blank\">title track<\/a> is one of those hard travelling ballads, followed up by the fed-up lover\u2019s last fuck-offs of \u201cThe Day You Die\u201d and \u201cLead Me On.\u201d \u201cDemons Don\u2019t Get Me Down\u201d is a great booze and dope track, the chorus of which rings \u201cI don\u2019t feel good, but I feel alright \/ I ain\u2019t gonna cry myself to sleep tonight,\u201d while \u201cUse Me\u201d goes even further, straddling the line between dope tune and sexy-times tune. \u201cMurder of Crows\u201d is as contemporary a murder ballad as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nWMu2BE_z6A\" target=\"_blank\">Fred Eaglesmith\u2019s \u201cKatie.\u201d<\/a> Colin Linden\u2019s contribution should also be mentioned, as the veteran producer and blues player gives the album a consistent, backwoods feel throughout, with top notch players highlighting Ortega\u2019s mean pipes. Worth picking up if you\u2019re into roots, or just into great female vocalists performing at the top of their game. (Last Gang Entertainment, <a href=\"http:\/\/lindiortega.ca\" target=\"_blank\">lindiortega.ca<\/a>) <strong>Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the first tune through the final cut of Cigarettes &amp; Truckstops, Lindi Ortega\u2019s voice cuts through Colin Linden\u2019s thoughtful and bucolic production like a shot of 151.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[213,432,540],"class_list":["post-5432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-country","tag-hillbilly-highway","tag-last-gang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}