{"id":8606,"date":"2020-01-24T18:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T18:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/01\/24\/getting-to-know-emily-scott-robinson\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:31:43","slug":"getting-to-know-emily-scott-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/getting-to-know-emily-scott-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting to know Emily Scott Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter, Emily Scott Robinson, a 2009 Furman University Spanish and history alumna, is featured in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/yesweekly.com\/getting-to-know-emily-scott-robinson\/\">Yes! Weekly<\/a><\/strong>, a publication out of her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina. The story describes her cross-country journey collecting material for her music &#8211; in an RV with her husband. &#8220;Chasing big dreams while living in small spaces,&#8221; Robinson released her first album in 2016. Inspiration and creative funding led to her second, &#8220;Traveling Mercies&#8221; (2019),\u00a0 which made it to No. 21 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country-lists\/40-best-country-and-americana-albums-of-2019-920497\/emily-scott-robinson-traveling-mercies-920528\/\">Rolling Stone&#8217;s Top 40 Country and Americana Albums of 2019<\/a>. The track &#8220;The Dress,&#8221; took the No. 13 spot on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country-lists\/best-country-music-songs-2019-924433\/emily-scott-robinson-the-dress-924489\/\">Rolling Stone&#8217;s 25 Best Country and Americana Songs of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson&#8217;s work can be heard on digital platforms such as Spotify and Amazon Music. She has nearly 200,000 listeners on Spotify. Her ballad, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bing.com\/videos\/search?q=youtube+emily+scott+robinson+better+with+time&amp;view=detail&amp;mid=FB418C3455464DC9661AFB418C3455464DC9661A&amp;FORM=VIRE\">Better With Time<\/a>,&#8221; has over 2 million listeners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter, Emily Scott Robinson, a 2009 Furman University Spanish and history alumna, is featured in Yes! Weekly, a publication out of her hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina. The story describes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,42,6,16,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-history","category-in-the-news","category-modern-languages-and-literature","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}