{"id":1607,"date":"2011-03-04T16:52:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2011-03-04T16:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T23:52:48","slug":"bobby-bare-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/bobby-bare-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"BOBBY BARE JR."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BOBBY-BARE-JR.-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1608\" title=\"BOBBY-BARE-JR.-M-Review-SeptOct2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BOBBY-BARE-JR.-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BOBBY-BARE-JR.-M-Review-SeptOct2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/BOBBY-BARE-JR.-M-Review-SeptOct2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>OBBY BARE JR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Storm, A Tree, My Mother\u2019s Head<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Thirty Tigers]<\/p>\n<p>Four years after his last studio album, Bobby Bare Jr. returns with his wry wit and droll eye for detail splendidly intact. Bare has never fit squarely into the country-singer mold of his father, but there\u2019s subtle twang here, along with a gentle throwback-soul sensibility on tunes that would make you cry if you weren\u2019t laughing. \u201cOne of Us Has Got to Go\u201d is one of those, with Bare singing over solo acoustic guitar as he catalogs ways to avoid seeing his ex-lover cavort with his successor. \u201cRock and Roll Halloween\u201d is flat-out funny, with incisive descriptions of a party full of outlandish costumes and booze-fueled antics: \u201cI saw Elvis make out with Jesus,\u201d he sings on a chorus that shows the influence of late friend and collaborator, poet Shel Silverstein. As his latest ably demonstrates, Bare has become something of a poet himself. \u2013ED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOBBY BARE JR. A Storm, A Tree, My Mother\u2019s Head [Thirty Tigers] Four years after his last studio album, Bobby Bare Jr. returns with his wry wit and droll eye for detail splendidly intact. Bare has never fit squarely into the country-singer mold of his father, but there\u2019s subtle twang here, along with a gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1107,1108,196,1106,1109,1062,328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607"}],"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=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}