{"id":789,"date":"2010-04-07T11:02:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=789"},"modified":"2010-04-07T11:02:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T17:02:53","slug":"review-ben-sollee-daniel-martin-moore-dear-companion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/04\/07\/review-ben-sollee-daniel-martin-moore-dear-companion\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Ben Sollee &#038; Daniel Martin Moore &#8211; Dear Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-790\" title=\"ben sollee and daniel martin moore\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/ben-sollee-and-daniel-martin-moore.jpg\" alt=\"ben sollee and daniel martin moore\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>Billed as something of a tribute record to the music of their home state Kentucky, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore\u2019s <em>Dear Companion<\/em> is a soft acoustic record that flirts well with its Appalachian heritage. Consisting of songs built primarily around Sollee\u2019s cello and Moore\u2019s acoustic guitar, the record is a joy to listen too, despite of its total lack of roughage featuring very little, if any, dissonance or risky harmonic structures.\u00a0 It\u2019s a safe record that includes highlights such as the Sollee composition \u201cMy Wealth Comes to Me\u201d and Moore\u2019s \u201cSweet Marie.\u201d\u00a0 The two know what their strengths are\u2014solid vocal harmonies accompanied by gentle instrumentation\u2014and use them well.\u00a0 Thus, while <em>Dear Companion<\/em> certainly won\u2019t ever blow your mind, it certainly won\u2019t disappoint either.\u00a0 (Sub Pop, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.subpop.com\">www.subpop.com<\/a>) <strong>Jeff Friesen<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billed as something of a tribute record to the music of their home state Kentucky, Ben Sollee and Daniel Martin Moore\u2019s Dear Companion is a soft acoustic record that flirts well with its Appalachian heritage. Consisting of songs built primarily around Sollee\u2019s cello and Moore\u2019s acoustic guitar, the record is a joy to listen too, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[99,233],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ben-sollee","tag-daniel-martin-moore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}