{"id":40,"date":"2007-11-14T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T02:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-01-02T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:31:30","slug":"veronica-puleoread-between-the-livesmmi-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Veronica Puleo\/Read Between The Lives\/MMI Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/cover-art.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This singer-songwriter, originally from NJ, moved to Miami and is now a fixture in LA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s live music scene for the past 8 years. She chose the folk-rock idiom for her autobiographical retrospective on the various \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she has lived, first growing up a subjugated daughter in a Sicilian home then through various stages of liberation, maturation and artistic success. Her wide-ranging vocals are sweet and supple, reminiscent of Tracy Chapman. People in her past who tried to suppress her personal fulfillment are given retroactive castigations in darkly poetic pieces like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Rearview Mirror,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m Still Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Light of Truth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Although the overall attitude is often bitter, the compositions, her voice and her arrangements are always beautiful. All is not accusation. Some tracks are retrospectives of gratitude and admiration. The finale is a jaunty, ironic Italian folksong song that makes peace between Veronica and the past that she does not totally reject.<br \/>\nB+ In a word: Bittersweet<!--002f4b5d9ab8b39a531c28f62eaa0ee4--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This singer-songwriter, originally from NJ, moved to Miami and is now a fixture in LA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s live music scene for the past 8 years. She chose the folk-rock idiom for her autobiographical retrospective on the various \u00e2\u20ac\u0153lives\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she has lived, first growing up a subjugated daughter in a Sicilian home then through various stages of liberation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doktorjohn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}