{"id":783,"date":"2008-03-06T08:04:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T08:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=783"},"modified":"2008-03-06T08:04:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T08:04:02","slug":"in_concert_sara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_sara.html","title":{"rendered":"In Concert:  Sara Bareilles \/ James Blunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought the tickets mainly for <strong>Sara <\/strong>(the opener):  she introduced herself and pronounced her name Bare-el-ess.  Good to know since I was putting some random French pronunciation on it! \ud83d\ude42  Her album is nice, pretty, kinda calm.  In person she has a MUCH bigger voice \/ she can really fill up an auditorium (and we were at the Riviera so not a v. small area!) \/ seems like on the album they mixed her kinda bland and quiet compared to her actual voice.  I described her to someone as a &#8220;less husky (and perhaps less sultry?) version of Rachael Yamagata&#8221; \/ not as electronic-based as Beth Orton or Dido, not as ballad-y as Sarah McLachlan.  Sounds like she hasn&#8217;t gotten much support from her record company, but she&#8217;s certainly got a great voice.<br \/>\n<strong>James Blunt<\/strong> sounded good, all the songs sounded really pretty, but the cheesiness does get to you after a bit.  Also he&#8217;s quite comically awkward on stage, I think maybe it&#8217;s the soldier in him?  His &#8220;rockin&#8217; out&#8221; moves really cracked me up.  Still &#8211; he played almost the entire first album with doses of the second, everything sounded pretty, and the crowd was SOOO into it (and it wasn&#8217;t all 12 year old girls either; one of the most mixed crowds generation-wise I&#8217;ve ever seen at a late show, groups of 50 to 60 years olds in attendance as well).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought the tickets mainly for Sara (the opener): she introduced herself and pronounced her name Bare-el-ess. Good to know since I was putting some random French pronunciation on it! \ud83d\ude42 Her album is nice, pretty, kinda calm. In person she &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/03\/in_concert_sara.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}