{"id":26111,"date":"2016-06-02T06:31:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=26111"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:31:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T14:31:53","slug":"watch-marlon-williams-perform-dark-child-on-kcrw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2016-06\/watch-marlon-williams-perform-dark-child-on-kcrw\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Marlon Williams Perform &#8220;Dark Child&#8221; on KCRW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-26113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n-450x600.jpg\" alt=\"13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n-450x600.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/13312600_1370265539653936_3745155811643392615_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday night New Zealand&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marlonwilliams.co.nz\/\"><strong>Marlon Williams<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0majorly impressed while opening for the great<strong> Sam Beam<\/strong> and <strong>Jesca Hoop<\/strong> at the <strong>Fonda<\/strong> in LA (review soon to come).\u00a0<strong>Williams<\/strong> and bass accompanist (with their expert <strong>Everly Brothers<\/strong> harmonies) took the Fonda audience through a compelling mini-history of country music and out the other side. <strong>Williams<\/strong> is impressive on many fronts, but wowed with his well-honed vocalese (which at times, bizarrely, reminded us of <strong>Antony Hegarty<\/strong>&#8211;now <strong>Anohni<\/strong>). <strong>Williams<\/strong> released his critically-acclaimed debut solo album last year and is clearly headed to higher heights. \u00a0Though <strong>Williams<\/strong> regaled the Fonda audience with deep-cut murder ballads and other Lomaxian fare, it was his own songs that truly impressed. To get a feel, watch below as <strong>Williams<\/strong> performs <em><strong>Dark Child<\/strong><\/em> on <strong>KCRW<\/strong>. To hear the entire <strong>KCRW<\/strong> session go\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/music\/shows\/morning-becomes-eclectic\/marlon-williams\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. For more, afterwards check out <strong>Williams&#8217;<\/strong>\u00a0four-song\u00a0<strong>KEXP<\/strong> session with full band. \u00a0Wow.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gv5gmV7MyJ4\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KACOtGxdsjI\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday night New Zealand&#8217;s\u00a0Marlon Williams\u00a0majorly impressed while opening for the great Sam Beam and Jesca Hoop at the Fonda in LA (review soon to come).\u00a0Williams and bass accompanist (with their expert Everly Brothers harmonies) took the Fonda audience through a compelling mini-history of country music and out the other side. Williams is impressive on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26111"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26115,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26111\/revisions\/26115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}