{"id":2001,"date":"2011-03-20T16:18:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2011-03-20T16:18:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T23:18:39","slug":"the-white-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/the-white-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WHITE BUFFALO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2002\" title=\"THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE WHITE BUFFALO<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Prepare for Black &amp; Blue<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Rough Shod]<\/p>\n<p>Take this EP\u2019s title at face value: These are rough-and-tumble tales of damaged relationships, drinking and blood spilled. While \u201cLove Song #2\u201d is indeed a love song, it\u2019s one that\u2019s twisted up with drunken fights, an absent lover and the loneliness of the road. \u201cBlack &amp; Blue\u201d contrasts its gentle acoustic setting with a vivid portrait of a volatile relationship, while \u201cIn the Sun\u201d tells a dark tale of escape. The impassioned ferocity with which White Buffalo leader Jake Smith sings \u201cOh Darlin\u2019 What Have I Done\u201d chillingly conveys the mental state of a tormented man who\u2019s at the point of breaking down. His husky vocal growl conjures up thoughts of Eddie Vedder, while his spare, folky arrangements recall Cat Stevens or Ray LaMontagne\u2014if they played biker bars. However, as demonstrated on this impressive, intense and all-too-short five-song disc, the White Buffalo should soon make the need for such comparisons extinct. \u2013Michael Berick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WHITE BUFFALO Prepare for Black &amp; Blue [Rough Shod] Take this EP\u2019s title at face value: These are rough-and-tumble tales of damaged relationships, drinking and blood spilled. While \u201cLove Song #2\u201d is indeed a love song, it\u2019s one that\u2019s twisted up with drunken fights, an absent lover and the loneliness of the road. \u201cBlack [&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":[196,1059,1540,1541,1539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001"}],"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=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2003,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2001\/revisions\/2003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}