{"id":8339,"date":"2014-01-14T19:44:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=8339"},"modified":"2014-01-14T19:44:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T19:44:23","slug":"tony-dekker-prayer-of-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/01\/14\/tony-dekker-prayer-of-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Dekker &#8211; Prayer of the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/tony2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8340\" alt=\"tony2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/tony2-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The press release for Prayer of the Woods takes great pains to reassure fans that Tony Dekker\u2019s first solo album is little more than a \u201cmusical interlude\u201d and \u201cpersonal tangent\u201d between Great Lakes Swimmers releases.<!--more--> Talk about an undersell \u2013 Dekker is at the top of his sad, folky game here. <em>Prayer<\/em> sees the musician in his comfort zone. After five albums with the Great Lake Swimmers \u2013the last of which was their first ever recorded in an actual studio \u2013 it\u2019s refreshing to hear Dekker settle in to his role as a stripped-down, twangy troubadour.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recorded in an old church in rural Ontario, the album is decidedly melancholy and unabashedly Canadian. Nowhere is this more evident than on the album\u2019s standout track, \u201cSomewhere Near Thunder Bay\u201d \u2013 which recounts a wintry, nighttime drive through the Shield. Perfect for a fall afternoon dozing at the cabin or driving down the highway, <em>Prayer<\/em> is a sparse and thoughtful ode to the Canadian wilderness. (Nettwerk,<a href=\"http:\/\/greatlakeswimmers.com\">greatlakeswimmers.com<\/a>\/) <strong>Andrew Friesen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The press release for Prayer of the Woods takes great pains to reassure fans that Tony Dekker\u2019s first solo album is little more than a \u201cmusical interlude\u201d and \u201cpersonal tangent\u201d between Great Lakes Swimmers releases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1056],"class_list":["post-8339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-utn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}