{"id":4211,"date":"2011-05-21T01:37:35","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=4211"},"modified":"2011-05-21T01:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T23:37:35","slug":"ben-arnold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2011\/05\/ben-arnold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Arnold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4212\" title=\"ben arnold\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ben-arnold.jpg\" alt=\"ben arnold\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>Het was in 1995 dat ik totaal verslingerd raakte aan Soar, het schitterende nummer van Almost Speechless, het debuut \u2013 op major Sony \u2013 van Ben Arnold. Zestien jaar en zes platen later treffen we Ben met <strong>Simplify<\/strong> aan op het Duitse rootslabel Blue Rose (Sonic Rendezvous). Nog steeds is de man uit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania gezegend met dat prachtige, donker-hese stemgeluid, waardoor de songs op Simplify vertrouwd klinken. Verder vraag ik mij wel af of Arnold anno 2011 voldoende in huis heeft om potten te kunnen breken. Vooral in de uptempo-songs klinken zijn liedjes <!--more-->mij te vrijblijvend en te weinig onderscheidend. In de ballads echter (Slow Learner, Fishin&#8217;, Watching The Wheels) en ook in de slepende rocker Woman&#8217;s Intuition komt bij mij het oude Ben Arnold-gevoel in zijn volle glorie naar boven.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Het was in 1995 dat ik totaal verslingerd raakte aan Soar, het schitterende nummer van Almost Speechless, het debuut \u2013 op major Sony \u2013 van Ben Arnold. Zestien jaar en zes platen later treffen we Ben met Simplify aan op het Duitse rootslabel Blue Rose (Sonic Rendezvous). Nog steeds is de man uit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4211\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}