{"id":1453,"date":"2012-02-24T00:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T00:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2012-03-05T07:11:02","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T07:11:02","slug":"gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-ep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/?p=1453","title":{"rendered":"Gary Clark Jr: Bright Lights EP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-cover-art1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-cover-art1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-cover-art\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-cover-art1.jpg 500w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-cover-art1-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/gary-clark-jr-bright-lights-cover-art1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Album: Bright Lights EP<br \/>\nArtist: Gary Clark Jr.<br \/>\nReleased: Aug 08, 2011<\/p>\n<p>I believe this young kid strapped with a mean guitar is from another time that is the origin of all music. He plays the blues with a sharp rock and roll sound that is heavy, moving, and will make your jaw drop. <strong>Gary<\/strong> has gotten the attention of <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>B.B. King<\/strong> and <strong>Buddy Guy<\/strong>, also anyone else that listens to music. I would definitely compare his fast, hard playing, noise-soaked, psych style to the likes of <strong>Jimi Hendrix<\/strong>. He will be playing at SXSW this year and is said to be one of the most talked about acts to be there. Releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/the-bright-lights-ep\/id455141519\">Bright Lights EP<\/a> late last year has taken some time for the Texas native to make some waves but they won&#8217;t stop now.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Crusty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Album: Bright Lights EP Artist: Gary Clark Jr. Released: Aug 08, 2011 I believe this young kid strapped with a mean guitar is from another time that is the origin of all music. He plays the blues with a sharp rock and roll sound that is heavy, moving, and will make your jaw drop. Gary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1453"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1453\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/illsocietymag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}