{"id":2437,"date":"2011-07-26T09:40:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2437"},"modified":"2011-07-26T09:40:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T16:40:39","slug":"gleasons-drift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/gleasons-drift\/","title":{"rendered":"GLEASONS DRIFT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2439\" title=\"Gleasons-Drift_Blythe-Township-Mellencamp-M-Review-MarApr2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gleasons-Drift_Blythe-Township-Mellencamp-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gleasons-Drift_Blythe-Township-Mellencamp-M-Review-MarApr2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Gleasons-Drift_Blythe-Township-Mellencamp-M-Review-MarApr2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>G<\/strong><strong>LEASONS DRIFT<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Blythe Township Mellencamp<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>gleasonsdrift.com<\/p>\n<p>Power-pop isn\u2019t solely the purview of city slickers in skinny ties. The members of Gleasons Drift are more beard-and-flannel types, so it\u2019s fitting that on their third album they deliver big riffs and bigger melodies with a backwoods twang befitting their native Pottsville, Pa. At their catchiest the songs recall \u201970s-era NRBQ. When frontman Bill Whalen really gets going, singing about marital upheavals or excessive drinking with folksy humor and hints of sadness, he proves as potent a songwriter as the similarly oriented Mike Cooley of the Drive-By Truckers. This hayride of an album is an easy sell: Come for the hooks, stay for the jokes, savor the stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GLEASONS DRIFT Blythe Township Mellencamp gleasonsdrift.com Power-pop isn\u2019t solely the purview of city slickers in skinny ties. The members of Gleasons Drift are more beard-and-flannel types, so it\u2019s fitting that on their third album they deliver big riffs and bigger melodies with a backwoods twang befitting their native Pottsville, Pa. At their catchiest the songs [&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":[196,1924,1923,1925,10159,1807],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437"}],"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=2437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2440,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437\/revisions\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}