{"id":2620,"date":"2011-07-26T23:22:13","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:22:13","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:22:13","slug":"jim-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/jim-lauderdale\/","title":{"rendered":"JIM LAUDERDALE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2621\" title=\"JIM-LAUDERDALE-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/JIM-LAUDERDALE-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/JIM-LAUDERDALE-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/JIM-LAUDERDALE-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>J<\/strong><strong>IM LAUDERDALE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Reason and Rhyme<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sugar Hill]<\/p>\n<p>Jim Lauderdale is the Pixar of Americana: Like the animation giant, he\u2019s had such a winning streak of releases that one can\u2019t help but look for chinks in the armor whenever he resurfaces with a new project (of which there have been many). Fortunately, <em>Reason and Rhyme<\/em>, his 20th full-length and fourth bluegrass album in as many years, won\u2019t go down in history as his Cars 2-esque fall-off point. Collaborating with lyricist Robert Hunter for a third time, Lauderdale once again proves that he\u2019s long since hit upon the perfect blend of honky-tonk and high lonesome with this briskly paced set of 11 originals. (Credit must also go to producer Randy Kohrs, who provides solid resonator guitar and harmony vocals throughout.) Hearing his warm, relaxed vocals on the childlike \u201cTiger &amp; the Monkey,\u201d it\u2019s easy to hope that Lauderdale\u2019s winning streak never ends. \u2014Jesse Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JIM LAUDERDALE Reason and Rhyme [Sugar Hill] Jim Lauderdale is the Pixar of Americana: Like the animation giant, he\u2019s had such a winning streak of releases that one can\u2019t help but look for chinks in the armor whenever he resurfaces with a new project (of which there have been many). Fortunately, Reason and Rhyme, his [&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":[196,518,1636,2073,437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620"}],"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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}