{"id":23025,"date":"2015-10-08T14:41:30","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T14:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23025"},"modified":"2015-10-11T21:04:59","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T21:04:59","slug":"listening-to-39","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=23025","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>David Rawlings Machine - Nashville Obsolete<\/strong>. Oh, how this pains me. Their first record as the D.R.M. took a good while to really click with me. I wasn't quite sure I dug the sillier tunes, and the slower tunes seemed <i>too<\/i> slow. But over time I came to like it quite a bit. And while their live shows are always fantastic, I've been hoping they'd put out a new record so they can have some <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=22218\">new material to play<\/a>. Now they have a new record! And it's full of stuff they've been playing for years. And, most of these songs are and slow and long - and not in the hypnotic style of Gillian Welch's \"I Dream A Highway\", just, <i>sigh<\/i>, plodding. Of the seven songs on this, only one comes in under four minutes. One is nearly 11 minutes long, one takes 8 minutes, two are six minutes. And 30 minutes go by before you get to a song with a tempo approaching toe-tapping speed. And, there are strings: not fiddles, but <i>violins<\/i> and <i>cellos<\/i>! Of all the things to put next to simple acoustic guitars and vocals, a string section would be pretty far from my first choice. I find it totally distracting. I still love the band, but, sadly, this doesn't satisfy.\n<li><strong>Kurt Vile - B'lieve I'm Going Down<\/strong>. Have you ever wondered what a cross between The Meat Puppets, Iron And Wine and the slower side of Modest Mouse would sound like?\n<\/ul>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Rawlings Machine - Nashville Obsolete. Oh, how this pains me. Their first record as the D.R.M. took a good while to really click with me. I wasn't quite sure I dug the sillier tunes, and the slower tunes seemed too slow. But over time I came to like it quite a bit. And while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23025"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23047,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23025\/revisions\/23047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}