{"id":1267,"date":"2017-03-14T14:30:03","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2017-03-06T17:22:37","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T17:22:37","slug":"emily-barker-sweet-kind-of-blue-19may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/emily-barker-sweet-kind-of-blue-19may\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-sale of the week: Emily Barker \u2013 <em>Sweet Kind Of Blue<\/em>, out 19 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-sale of the week is <a title=\"Emily Barker - Sweet Kind Of Blue\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r170519_7\"><strong><em>Sweet Kind Of Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Emily Barker<\/strong>, out on <strong>19 May<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Emily Barker - Sweet Kind Of Blue\" href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r170519_7\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"centre aligncenter\" title=\"Emily Barker - Sweet Kind Of Blue\" src=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/img\/rls\/offer\/1705\/7.jpg\" alt=\"Emily Barker - Sweet Kind Of Blue\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emily Barker<\/strong>\u2019s new album was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all-star cast of Memphis session players. <strong><em>Sweet Kind Of Blue<\/em><\/strong> is her first full studio album since 2013\u2019s critically lauded <em>Dear River<\/em> and marks a new sound for Barker as she returns to the soul and blues influences that first inspired her to become a songwriter and musician.<\/p>\n<p>Emily Barker is best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to BBC crime drama Wallander starring Kenneth Branagh. She has released music as a solo artist as well as with various bands including The Red Clay Halo, Vena Portae and Applewood Road. In 2015 she composed her first full feature film soundtrack for Jake Gavin\u2019s Hector, which won a Scottish BAFTA for its lead actor, Peter Mullan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Blues meets country meets gospel \u2026 a sweet and tender distillation of Americana influences<\/em>\u201d \u2013 Clash<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Emily Barker has a gift for great melodies<\/em>\u201d \u2013 The Guardian<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re offering <em>Sweet Kind Of Blue<\/em> at <strong class=\"darkred\">special pre-sale prices<\/strong>, which won\u2019t be available after release. <a href=\"http:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/offers.php#r170519_7\">Click here<\/a> for more details and to order your copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pre-sale of the week is Sweet Kind Of Blue by Emily Barker, out on 19 May. Emily Barker\u2019s new album was recorded at Sam Phillips Recording Service in Memphis with Grammy winning producer Matt Ross-Spang (Jason Isbell, Margo Price) and an all-star cast of Memphis session players. Sweet Kind Of Blue is her first full&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,159],"tags":[871,36,829,830,194],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-promotions","tag-emily-barker","tag-new-release","tag-pre-sale-of-the-week","tag-pre-sale-offers","tag-special-offer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hundredrecords.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}