{"id":2414,"date":"2011-07-25T23:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2414"},"modified":"2011-07-25T23:51:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T06:51:23","slug":"the-grascals-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/the-grascals-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"THE GRASCALS &#038; FRIENDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2415\" title=\"THE-GRASCALS-FRIENDS-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THE-GRASCALS-FRIENDS-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THE-GRASCALS-FRIENDS-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/THE-GRASCALS-FRIENDS-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE GRASCALS &amp; FRIENDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Country Classics With a Bluegrass Spin <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Cracker Barrel]<\/p>\n<p>The Grascals share a wealth of individual and collective experience in the bluegrass world, and it shows on this masterfully rendered set of covers populated by marquee guests. Opening with a faithful take on Buck Owens\u2019 signature \u201cTiger by the Tail,\u201d with Brad Paisley contributing the lead vocal and Kent Wells wailing on electric guitar, the Grascals prove once again to be one of the more malleable and fun-loving bluegrass outfits around. While the traditional bluegrass configuration\u2014guitar, bass, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, tight harmonies\u2014dominates most of the program, the Grascals are never reluctant to loosen up and mess with the formula. Neither Charlie Daniels\u2019 reprise of \u201cThe Devil Went Down to Georgia,\u201d Tom T. Hall\u2019s guest spot on \u201cThe Year That Clayton Delaney Died\u201d nor \u201cMr. Bojangles,\u201d sung by Joe Nichols, are substantially different in arrangement from the oft-heard original versions, but the Grascals manage to make them sound fresh regardless. \u2013JT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE GRASCALS &amp; FRIENDS Country Classics With a Bluegrass Spin [Cracker Barrel] The Grascals share a wealth of individual and collective experience in the bluegrass world, and it shows on this masterfully rendered set of covers populated by marquee guests. Opening with a faithful take on Buck Owens\u2019 signature \u201cTiger by the Tail,\u201d with Brad [&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":[196,1909,1910,1807,1908],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414"}],"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=2414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2416,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2414\/revisions\/2416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}