{"id":1090,"date":"2010-08-17T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2010-08-17T14:42:25","modified_gmt":"2010-08-17T21:42:25","slug":"various-artists-sweet-home-alabama-the-country-music-tribute-to-lynyrd-skynyrd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/various-artists-sweet-home-alabama-the-country-music-tribute-to-lynyrd-skynyrd\/","title":{"rendered":"VARIOUS ARTISTS + Sweet Home Alabama: The Country Music Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sweet<\/a>VARIOUS ARTISTS <\/strong><\/p>\n

Sweet Home Alabama: The Country Music Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

[Hip-O Records\/UMe]<\/p>\n

Lynyrd Skynyrd\u2019s iconic Southern rock songs fall victim to haphazard production and self-indulgent performances on this eight-song tribute disc released exclusively through Walmart. Produced by Jay Joyce, the album features Universal Music Group\u2019s roster of country young guns (along with Uncle Kracker) on a series of aesthetically unconnected recordings. Eric Church growls his way through a chunky, riff-heavy take on \u201cThe Ballad of Curtis Lowe\u201d that strips the song of its funky groove, while Randy Houser\u2019s aggressive version of \u201cSimple Man\u201d draws more from Shinedown\u2019s popular 2004 cover than from Skynyrd\u2019s original. Ashley Ray is a talented emerging artist, but her \u201cSweet Home Alabama\u201d transforms the original into an elevator-music version of its former self. The collection\u2019s lone bright spot comes courtesy of Jamey Johnson, whose soulful vocal on \u201cFour Walls of Raiford\u201d longs for release every bit as desperately as late Skynyrd leader Ronnie Van Zant\u2019s original. \u2013Jim Malec<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VARIOUS ARTISTS Sweet Home Alabama: The Country Music Tribute to Lynyrd Skynyrd [Hip-O Records\/UMe] Lynyrd Skynyrd\u2019s iconic Southern rock songs fall victim to haphazard production and self-indulgent performances on this eight-song tribute disc released exclusively through Walmart. Produced by Jay Joyce, the album features Universal Music Group\u2019s roster of country young guns (along with Uncle […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,664,171,623,665,663,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1092,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions\/1092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}