{"id":328,"date":"2004-02-09T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T00:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=328"},"modified":"2022-02-23T01:19:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:19:34","slug":"new-artist-discovery-joss-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2004\/02\/09\/new-artist-discovery-joss-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"New Artist Discovery &#8211; Joss Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"438\" height=\"328\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-30.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-30.png 438w, https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-30-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For those who I somehow did not talk to since I came back from Taiwan (SORRY SHAWN AND JACKY!), here is a quick update:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Returned home on Tuesday, 1\/27&#8230; spent a few days in Minneapolis, and the following week went on a whirlwind cross-country installation trip first an installation in Washington, D.C., and then in New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The past weekend I decided to spend in Bernardsville, N.J. with my friends Bill and Linda (Thanks for letting me stay at your home!), before flying out this morning to Pittsburgh, PA &#8211; then drove two hours to Butler, PA for an installation tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now the quick explanation of this post &#8211; being that the Fairfield Inn is offering free high-speed internet, I was surfing around, and discovered this incredible talent &#8211; a SOUL (as in Aretha Franklin) singer called Joss Stone. I listened to a sample of her song, and fell in love with her voice. What amazed me even more is that this talented singer&nbsp;is only&nbsp;<strong>sixteen<\/strong>&nbsp;years old&nbsp;(!),&nbsp;white&nbsp;(!!), and from Devon,&nbsp;England&nbsp;(!!!) What the&#8230;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/yhif\/stone_joss\/photos\/images\/flip8.jpg\">Looks like Britney Spears<\/a>, sounds like&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/stores\/artist\/glance\/-\/132953\/ref=pd_ap_sr\/103-8080489-5310254\">Eva Cassidy<\/a>. Simply amazing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out her album,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B0000C0FKA\/qid=1076390075\/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl15\/103-8080489-5310254?v=glance&amp;s=music&amp;n=507846\">Soul Sessions<\/a>, if you have a few minutes. Promise you won&#8217;t go wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who I somehow did not talk to since I came back from Taiwan (SORRY SHAWN AND JACKY!), here is a quick update: Returned home on Tuesday, 1\/27&#8230; spent a few days in Minneapolis, and the following week went on a whirlwind cross-country installation trip first an installation in Washington, D.C., and then in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/image-30.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}