{"id":288,"date":"2008-07-09T11:12:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T14:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewlamarche.com\/news1\/?p=288"},"modified":"2009-08-16T00:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-08-16T04:45:47","slug":"jon-amor-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/2008\/07\/jon-amor-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Amor Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From The Ottawa Citizen<br \/>\nSaturday, July 6, 2008 &#8211; Page A9<br \/>\n<strong>REVIEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Artists work it together<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-969\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;\" title=\"Jon Amor - Photo by: Brian Goldschmied\" src=\"https:\/\/andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Jon-Amor_1755.jpg\" alt=\"Jon Amor - Photo by: Brian Goldschmied\" width=\"200\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Jon-Amor_1755.jpg 424w, https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/Jon-Amor_1755-141x200.jpg 141w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/> By Lynn Saxberg<\/p>\n<p>Another highlight of yesterday&#8217;s daytime festivities was a performance by British guitarist Jon Amor, who demonstrated the fruits of his own made-in-Ottawa collaboration. In a crisp white shirt, Amor, who grew up a few kilometers from Stonehenge. made a terrific impression on the River stage, thanks in part to the Ottawa band that accompanied him.<\/p>\n<p>As the tall, skinny Brit blazed the frets, pledging his allegiance to electric blues-rock, a rhythm section made up of Ottawa bassist Pat Giunta and drummer Andrew Lamarche made sure his playing was given a maximum punch. On songs like <em>Rose Coloured Glasses<\/em> and <em>I Can&#8217;t Keep Living Like This<\/em>, two of the expressive anthems from his latest disc, <em>Unknown Soldier<\/em>, they were cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, Amor has a knack for getting along with people. One high-profile gues on his disc is Robert Plant, who dropped by the studio to contribute some bluesy harmonica.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Ottawa Citizen Saturday, July 6, 2008 &#8211; Page A9 REVIEWS Artists work it together By Lynn Saxberg Another highlight of yesterday&#8217;s daytime festivities was a performance by British guitarist Jon Amor, who demonstrated the fruits of his own made-in-Ottawa collaboration. In a crisp white shirt, Amor, who grew up a few kilometers from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29,319],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-jon-amor","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewlamarche.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}