{"id":1136,"date":"2010-08-17T18:13:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T01:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2010-08-17T18:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T01:13:29","slug":"great-big-sea-safe-upon-the-shore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/great-big-sea-safe-upon-the-shore\/","title":{"rendered":"GREAT BIG SEA + Safe Upon the Shore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Safe-Upon-the-Shore-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1137\" title=\"Safe-Upon-the-Shore-M-Review-JulyAugust2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Safe-Upon-the-Shore-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg\" alt=\"Safe Upon the Shore \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Safe-Upon-the-Shore-M-Review-JulyAugust2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Safe-Upon-the-Shore-M-Review-JulyAugust2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>G<\/strong><strong>REAT BIG SEA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Safe Upon the Shore<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greatbigsea.com\" target=\"_blank\">greatbigsea.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 18 years and 10 albums, Newfoundland\u2019s leading musical proponents are newly independent and pared down to a core trio. The newfound flexibility becomes a launching point for Great Big Sea to veer from their usual overarching anthems. Recording in far-flung locales\u2014studios, buses and basements\u2014they welcome special guests, including producer Steve Berlin of Los Lobos. Following last year\u2019s solo turn by guitarist Sean McCann (the reflective <em>Lullabies for Bloodshot Eyes<\/em>), <em>Safe Upon the Shore<\/em> incorporates various folk and traditional styles, segueing seamlessly from playful sing-alongs like \u201cDon\u2019t Wanna Go Home\u201d to the carousing \u201cRoad to Ruin\u201d and \u201cWandering Ways.\u201d Its seamless diversity makes this jaunty return all the more memorable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BIG SEA Safe Upon the Shore greatbigsea.com After 18 years and 10 albums, Newfoundland\u2019s leading musical proponents are newly independent and pared down to a core trio. The newfound flexibility becomes a launching point for Great Big Sea to veer from their usual overarching anthems. Recording in far-flung locales\u2014studios, buses and basements\u2014they welcome special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,703,705,10159,623,704],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"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=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1138,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}