{"id":314,"date":"2007-07-17T21:38:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T05:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/07\/17\/blog-097-when-it-rains-it-soars\/"},"modified":"2007-07-17T21:38:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T05:38:22","slug":"blog-097-when-it-rains-it-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/07\/17\/blog-097-when-it-rains-it-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 097 &gt; When It Rains, It Soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlotte_Martin\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2007\/Images-photoshop\/xjaymanx_charlotte_martin_01a_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Martin\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Tori-esque Singer-Songwriter Charlotte Martin<\/em><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wow. I don&#8217;t usually rave over a musical artist. But in this case, I must make a startling exception for pianist-singer-songwriter <a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charlotte_Martin\">Charlotte Martin<\/a>. It&#8217;s barely two weeks since her song &#8220;Every Time It Rains&#8221; struck me on July 4th via the internet radio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2007\/06\/15\/blog-081-opening-pandoras-box\/\">Pandora.com<\/a>. Yet since then, I&#8217;ve been hooked by her heart-stopping resemblance to Tori Amos and to a lesser extent Kate Bush, whom she idolizes. Charlotte&#8217;s cover of Kate&#8217;s classic &#8220;Cloudbusting&#8221; is subdued yet piercingly refreshing. Tori yet not quite Tori. Kate yet not quite Kate. While some may deride her musical resemblance to her predecessors, Charlotte&#8217;s melodies and vocals are undeniably moving and clutching on a soul-stirring level that reaches their own. Fantastic! If you&#8217;re a fan of Tori or Kate and want to tread new paths that they themselves could&#8217;ve explored, then add Charlotte to your wish list. If you haven&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tori-esque Singer-Songwriter Charlotte Martin Wow. I don&#8217;t usually rave over a musical artist. But in this case, I must make a startling exception for pianist-singer-songwriter Charlotte Martin. It&#8217;s barely two weeks since her song &#8220;Every Time It Rains&#8221; struck me on July 4th via the internet radio Pandora.com. Yet since then, I&#8217;ve been hooked by &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2007\/07\/17\/blog-097-when-it-rains-it-soars\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}