{"id":1253,"date":"2010-04-01T00:06:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T06:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2011-08-07T08:44:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T14:44:34","slug":"spiritual-songs-by-the-wayside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/spiritual-songs-by-the-wayside\/","title":{"rendered":"Spiritual Songs by The Wayside"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1254\" title=\"the-wayside-spiritual-songs\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/08\/the-wayside-spiritual-songs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/08\/the-wayside-spiritual-songs.jpg 300w, https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/08\/the-wayside-spiritual-songs-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Wayside is back. If you like Americana, Rock, or folk in any kind of combination, then that one statement should make you rejoice. Starting off as Vag and Vague and a few other band names that I can\u2019t remember back in the 1980s, John and Michelle Thompson and their merry rotating band of minstrels finally settled on their current name in the 1990s and have been releasing quality albums ever since. Now, I am not saying that they are releasing those albums at a rapid pace as Spiritual Songs is only their third studio album. Throw in a couple live albums and you have their entire catalogue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spiritual Songs<\/em> finds The Wayside covering, well\u2026 spiritual songs. These are all songs written by someone else \u2013 often even classic hymns and spirituals. You can listen to the entire album streaming at BandCamp.com. (I swear someday the Internet is going to make album reviews obsolete\u2026) Fans of the last Wayside album <em>Farm<\/em> (which came out in 1852, I believe) will find many sounds here to love. The Thompson\u2019s both have great voices that work incredibly well together. As usual, they have surrounded themselves with excellent musicians.<\/p>\n<p><em>Spiritual Songs<\/em> is available in many formats \u2013 downloads, special editions, physical CDs, and streaming. There is even a bonus vinyl 7\u201d if you are so inclined. The special editions are going fast, so don\u2019t miss out on those. But no matter how you get one, get your copy today and support the finest in independent music.<\/p>\n[2010 Independent | Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/thewayside.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BandCamp.com<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wayside is back. If you like Americana, Rock, or folk in any kind of combination, then that one statement should make you rejoice. Starting off as Vag and Vague and a few other band names that I can\u2019t remember &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/spiritual-songs-by-the-wayside\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[98,258],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2010","category-music-review","tag-independent","tag-the-wayside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1255,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}