{"id":2660,"date":"2011-07-26T23:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=2660"},"modified":"2011-07-26T23:56:01","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T06:56:01","slug":"nick-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/07\/nick-13\/","title":{"rendered":"NICK 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2661\" title=\"NICK-13-M-Review-June2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NICK-13-M-Review-June2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NICK-13-M-Review-June2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/NICK-13-M-Review-June2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>N<\/strong><strong>ICK 13<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Nick 13<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sugar Hill]<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years ago, Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness released his country-tinged first solo album\u2014and thanks to Ness\u2019 distinctive, SoCal-sunbaked voice, it still sounded a lot like Social Distortion. <em>Nick 13<\/em>, whose Berkeley-based psychobilly band Tiger Army is cut from the same cloth as Social D, gets a very different result on his own self-titled solo debut. A straightforward traditional effort co-produced by roots luminaries James Intveld and Greg Leisz, Nick 13 finds its creator adopting a pleasant, woe-is-me lilt and sounding like a cross between Chris Isaak and Slim Whitman. In fact, a little grit would go a long way on this set of sentimental honky-tonk tunes. The crack team of stellar musicians keeps things interesting, including the likes of Nickel Creek\u2019s Sara Watkins on fiddle and pedal steel masters Leisz and Lloyd Green. The proceedings make for a relaxing shore leave from Nick\u2019s full-time Army, but one can\u2019t help but miss the thrill of combat. \u2013J. Thompson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICK 13 Nick 13 [Sugar Hill] Twelve years ago, Social Distortion frontman Mike Ness released his country-tinged first solo album\u2014and thanks to Ness\u2019 distinctive, SoCal-sunbaked voice, it still sounded a lot like Social Distortion. Nick 13, whose Berkeley-based psychobilly band Tiger Army is cut from the same cloth as Social D, gets a very different [&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":[196,1636,2108,437],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660"}],"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=2660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2660\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}