{"id":6339,"date":"2025-09-05T15:06:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T20:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2025-11-09T19:22:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:22:02","slug":"jon-batiste-playing-for-big-money-on-his-2025-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6339","title":{"rendered":"Jon Batiste \u2014 Playing For Big Money On His 2025 Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jon Batiste may be playing for big money on his 2025 album, but the soulful collection betrays an artist less stressed about cleaning up at the poker table than about making sure everyone sitting around him is having a good time. Take the opening duet \u201cLEAN ON MY LOVE,\u201d which features Batiste and Andra Day singing their hearts out above organ swells, a shuffling drum groove, and inviting handclaps.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6341\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6341\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Music\/?p=6038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6341\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jon-Batiste.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jon-Batiste.jpg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jon-Batiste-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jon-Batiste-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Jon-Batiste-375x375.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6341\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Music\/?p=6038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><em>Stream Big Money<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/a> Image Courtesy Of Apple Services<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The track sounds like an Al Green lost cut as the vocalists croon: \u201cYou can lean on my love when there\u2019s no one to hold you.\u201d Elsewhere, the Louisiana songwriter invites Randy Newman to lend his vocals to \u201cLONELY AVENUE,\u201d which takes the Ray Charles classic and reimagines it as a bluesy piano ballad. Newman may be singing of love lost and endless heartbreak, but sadness has never sounded so sweet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Every product\/service is selected by editors. Products\/Services you buy through these links may earn &#8220;SMG&#8221; a commission or revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jon Batiste may be playing for big money on his 2025 album, but the soulful collection betrays an artist less stressed about cleaning up at the poker table than about making sure everyone sitting around him is having a good time. Take the opening duet \u201cLEAN ON MY LOVE,\u201d which features Batiste and Andra Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6342,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/6342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}