{"id":778,"date":"2026-06-06T00:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/?p=778"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:59:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:59:14","slug":"zion-rodman-the-lives-ive-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/zion-rodman-the-lives-ive-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Rodman &#8211; The Lives I&#8217;ve Kept"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/5hd2NsNn8UC2Zz6rANb6kH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen on Spotify<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Single\/3 tracks <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Boston-based (by way of Cape Cod and Chicago) artist Zion Rodman brings a refreshing authenticity to New England&#8217;s music scene. His soulful voice and melodic guitar work knit together a genre-bending repertoire of originals that include introspective acoustic ballads that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place in the closing minutes of an episode of &#8220;Scrubs&#8221; or &#8220;Ted Lasso&#8221; (&#8220;Whatever Happens&#8221;\/&#8221;Everybody That You Know\u201d), powerful songs with a message (\u201cDid Not Wake Up Today\u201d), and up-tempo roots-rock (&#8220;Parking Lot at Night&#8221;\/&#8221;Into the Night&#8221;) anchored by an excellent rhythm section. The tracks on the 2024 three-song EP\/single &#8220;The Lives I&#8217;ve Kept&#8221; add retro nods to alt-pop influences from the early 90s but shorn of the pretensions that relegated Counting-Gin-Blossoms-in-the-Soul-Asylum to nostalgia playlists. The result is an updated and fresh indie-folk sound grounded in good songwriting and yet rooted in tradition. (Jay Jenne)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen on Spotify Single\/3 tracks Boston-based (by way of Cape Cod and Chicago) artist Zion Rodman brings a refreshing authenticity to New England&#8217;s music scene. His soulful voice and melodic guitar work knit together a genre-bending repertoire of originals that include introspective acoustic ballads that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place in the closing minutes of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews","tag-spring-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":779,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}