{"id":680,"date":"2013-04-29T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T00:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/?p=680"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:42:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T22:42:37","slug":"cd-review-howard-emersons-it-aint-necessarily-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onemanz.com\/guitar\/cd-review-howard-emersons-it-aint-necessarily-so\/","title":{"rendered":"CD Review &#8211; Howard Emerson&#8217;s It Ain&#8217;t Necessarily So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Emerson&#8217;s <em>It Ain&#8217;t Necessarily So<\/em> offers tracks that are bluesier, while some are more poppy, or even churchy. Many are written in alternate tunings, and most of those are cross-tuned so the key is something other than the root of the tuning itself (no small feat when done with such mastery.) 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