{"id":5,"date":"2010-01-26T03:23:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimmy.katefox.biz\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-01-26T03:23:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T03:23:03","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Meet Jimmy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/headshot1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Jimmy Abraham\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/headshot1.png\" alt=\"Jimmy Abraham\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Jimmy Abraham\u2019s songs are examples and explorations of narrative in song.\u00a0 The deep connection between music and storytelling informs his work through styles that range from lyrical ballads to talking blues to raucous, sometimes bawdy, humor.\u00a0 From the smallest, most intimate tragedy to the wildest, most wide-flung comic forms, Abraham uses the voices of recognizable human characters to craft tales that transport his audience to settings as widely varied as his own experience.<\/p>\n<p>From his birthplace in Chicago and his home in New Mexico, from his childhood in Oklahoma and his years living in South America, Abraham brings a depth of life and a courage that turns away from neither the world\u2019s sorrows nor its joys.<\/p>\n<p>His political work has been featured on NBC and National Public Radio.\u00a0 His songs have won a variety of awards and been covered by bands from Seattle to New York and played on independent radio from Georgia to California.\u00a0 He presently plays with The Adobe Brothers, Cheap Shots, and the fabulous Fiasco Brothers as well as playing solo performances.\u00a0 His second CD,\u00a0 \u201cSongwriters\u2019 Notebook Vol. 2,\u201d came out in 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Abraham\u2019s songs are examples and explorations of narrative in song.\u00a0 The deep connection between music and storytelling informs his work through styles that range from lyrical ballads to talking blues to raucous, sometimes bawdy, humor.\u00a0 From the smallest, most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimmyabraham.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}