{"id":2357,"date":"2011-07-25T22:52:02","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2357"},"modified":"2011-07-25T22:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T05:52:02","slug":"sara-evans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/sara-evans\/","title":{"rendered":"SARA EVANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2358\" title=\"SARA-EVANS-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SARA-EVANS-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SARA-EVANS-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/SARA-EVANS-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>S<\/strong><strong>ARA EVANS <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Stronger <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sony Nashville]<\/p>\n<p>On her first album in five years, Sara Evans courts country radio with a firm determination. A slick package of twang pop, <em>Stronger<\/em> begins with more Hallmark schmaltz than Tennessee waltz: her remake of Rod Stewart\u2019s late \u201980s hit \u201cMy Heart Can\u2019t Tell You No\u201d marks the nadir of a middling first half. The second half is where you\u2019ll find the winners: Songs like \u201cAlone\u201d and \u201cTicket to Ride\u201d (not the Beatles number) have an intelligence and depth worthy of Evans\u2019 talent. When she\u2019s singing about heartache and misery, the results are magic. On \u201cWhat That Drink Cost Me,\u201d a nuanced account of substance abuse, she plays to the strengths of her plaintive alto. As a fitting finale, Evans essays a bluegrass version of \u201cBorn to Fly,\u201d offering a hint of how her music might blossom if she were to strip away the sonic trappings and take a more organic approach. \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SARA EVANS Stronger [Sony Nashville] On her first album in five years, Sara Evans courts country radio with a firm determination. A slick package of twang pop, Stronger begins with more Hallmark schmaltz than Tennessee waltz: her remake of Rod Stewart\u2019s late \u201980s hit \u201cMy Heart Can\u2019t Tell You No\u201d marks the nadir of a [&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":[196,1807,1865,1867,1866],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357"}],"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=2357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2359,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2357\/revisions\/2359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}