{"id":2447587,"date":"2019-08-15T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=872034"},"modified":"2019-08-15T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T15:34:03","slug":"hear-robbie-robertsons-swampy-john-lennon-inspired-let-love-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/hear-robbie-robertsons-swampy-john-lennon-inspired-let-love-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Robbie Robertson\u2019s Swampy, John Lennon-Inspired \u2018Let Love Reign\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Robbie-Robertson.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/robbie-robertson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_robbie-robertson\" data-tag=\"robbie-robertson\">Robbie Robertson<\/a> is gearing up to release <em>Sinematic<\/em>, his first studio album in more than seven years that marks a shift in the legendary Band guitarist\u2019s writing: while he wrote mainly character songs for years, his 2016 bestselling autobiography <em>Testimony<\/em> pushed Robertson to more personal territory. \u201cThere is something blatantly honest about this period I\u2019m in now, what I\u2019m drawn to,\u201d Robertson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/robbie-robertson-new-album-interview-861278\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2019s David Browne<\/a>. \u201cI guess I\u2019m at an age now \u2013 a place in my journey \u2013 where I don\u2019t care what you think. I\u2019ll tell you anyway!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That sentiment is clear on \u201cLet Love Reign,\u201d the latest release from the album, where Robertson talks about remaining optimistic in an age of paranoia and fear. \u201cWoke up in a cold sweat,\u201d Robertson sings over a swampy shuffle, \u201cwas that thunder that I heard, or bombs dropping from a jet?\u201d He ultimately pushes these thoughts aside for a hopeful chorus, where he\u2019s joined by Irish balladeer Glen Hansard.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Robertson says the message of \u201cLet Love Reign\u201d was inspired by John Lennon. \u201cSome people think John Lennon\u2019s dream about love and togetherness went up in flames,\u201d said Robertson. \u201cI think that\u2019s wrong. It\u2019s everlasting. There was something a little naive about John Lennon going around singing about peace, but in that period young people celebrating love and peace helped end a war.\u201d The song\u2019s snaky groove was inspired by the sounds of some of Robertson\u2019s other heroes: \u201cI thought of Dale Hawkins and \u2018Susie Q,\u2019 just as far as a groove and guitar riff,\u201d he said, \u201clike James Burton or Roy Buchanan. That song has cobwebs all over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robertson teams up with other friends on <em>Sinematic<\/em>, including Van Morrison and Citizen Cope. He also scored Martin Scorsese\u2019s upcoming film <em>The Irishman<\/em>, out later this year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/robbie-robertson-let-love-reign-song-872034\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robbie Robertson is gearing up to release Sinematic, his first studio album in more than seven years that marks a shift in the legendary Band guitarist\u2019s writing: while he wrote mainly character songs for years, his 2016 bestselling autobiography Testimony pushed Robertson to more personal territory. \u201cThere is something blatantly honest about this period I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2447587","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-26 07:14:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}