{"id":1782,"date":"2011-03-17T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1782"},"modified":"2011-03-17T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T05:23:13","slug":"ryan-montbleau-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/ryan-montbleau-band\/","title":{"rendered":"RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/RYAN-MONTBLEAU-BAND-M-Review-November2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1783\" title=\"RYAN-MONTBLEAU-BAND-M-Review-November2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/RYAN-MONTBLEAU-BAND-M-Review-November2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/RYAN-MONTBLEAU-BAND-M-Review-November2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/RYAN-MONTBLEAU-BAND-M-Review-November2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>R<\/strong><strong>YAN MONTBLEAU BAND<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Heavy on the Vine<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ryanmontbleauband.com<\/p>\n<p>Credit Ryan Montbleau with the ability to sound folksy without being folk-y. His down-home shuffles belie an uptown sound, and given his casual vocals and the feast of fiddles that weave their way into the mix, Montbleau\u2019s breezy presentation provides a jam-band feel without that genre\u2019s tendency toward overindulgence. Take the low-key \u201cSlippery Road,\u201d a pleasing paean to procrastination, the jaunty reggae rhythms of \u201cSongbird\u201d and the engaging instrumental \u201cHands,\u201d which add diversity while hewing to a tuneful template.<br \/>\nProducer Martin Sexton\u2019s presence behind the board helps to keep <em>Heavy on the Vine<\/em> easy on the ear. \u201cI want to run up every mountain\/I want to wade through every ocean,\u201d Montbleau declares on \u201cChariot (I Know),\u201d and sounds as if he could well do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RYAN MONTBLEAU BAND Heavy on the Vine ryanmontbleauband.com Credit Ryan Montbleau with the ability to sound folksy without being folk-y. His down-home shuffles belie an uptown sound, and given his casual vocals and the feast of fiddles that weave their way into the mix, Montbleau\u2019s breezy presentation provides a jam-band feel without that genre\u2019s tendency [&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":[196,1304,10159,1175,1307,1306,1305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782"}],"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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}