{"id":1739,"date":"2011-03-17T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2011-03-17T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T04:50:00","slug":"trace-adkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/trace-adkins\/","title":{"rendered":"TRACE ADKINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/TRACE-ADKINS-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1740\" title=\"TRACE-ADKINS-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/TRACE-ADKINS-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/TRACE-ADKINS-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/TRACE-ADKINS-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>RACE ADKINS <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Cowboy\u2019s Back in Town <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Show Dog\/Universal]<\/p>\n<p>Trace Adkins\u2019 new album begins with a punchline about the wah-wah guitar lines that once dominated porn soundtracks (\u201cBrown Chicken Brown Cow\u201d) and ends with a hillbilly brawl (\u201cWhoop a Man\u2019s Ass\u201d). In between, the rest of this underwhelming set might make you forget the fact that Adkins, with his profound baritone, is one of modern country music\u2019s most powerful voices. When he gets hold of a song worthy of him, you hear a man who can express tenderness (the Conway Twitty-esque \u201cStill Love You\u201d) and toughness (\u201cThis Ain\u2019t No Love Song\u201d) with equal resolve. His carefree sense of humor works, too: \u201cHell, I Can Do That\u201d is a gently strutting tale of redneck fantasies. But <em>Cowboy\u2019s Back in Town<\/em>, Adkins\u2019 first release on fellow country star Toby Keith\u2019s Show Dog imprint, is a disappointing effort from an artist who\u2019s capable of much more maturity and focus than is heard here. \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRACE ADKINS Cowboy\u2019s Back in Town [Show Dog\/Universal] Trace Adkins\u2019 new album begins with a punchline about the wah-wah guitar lines that once dominated porn soundtracks (\u201cBrown Chicken Brown Cow\u201d) and ends with a hillbilly brawl (\u201cWhoop a Man\u2019s Ass\u201d). In between, the rest of this underwhelming set might make you forget the fact that [&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":[196,1262,1175,1263,1261,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739"}],"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=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}