{"id":3018,"date":"2011-08-03T13:32:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2011-08-03T13:32:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-03T20:32:36","slug":"hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/hanson\/","title":{"rendered":"HANSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HANSON<\/h1>\n

Shouting out loud their love of classic R&B and rock \u2019n\u2019 roll<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Hanson\u2019s last album, 2007\u2019s The Walk<\/em>, was comprised of weighty songs about facing conflicts and overcoming obstacles. For the new Shout It Out<\/em>, the Tulsa,\u00a0Okla.-based band was determined to rediscover its sense of joy. \u201cWe wanted to make a summer record,\u201d says drummer Zac Hanson, who\u00a0co-founded the trio 18 years ago with brothers Taylor and Isaac. \u201cHopefully, the songs have an energy that makes you want to get in the car and drive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Producing the album themselves on a 2,000-acre pecan farm in El Paso, Texas, the brothers looked back to the Motown hits and R&B classics they grew up listening to. \u201cA lot of those records\u2014late \u201950s and early \u201960s rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, Motown and early R&B\u2014are really sparse,\u201d Hanson explains. \u201cThey\u2019re all about the song, about having a great melody and a memorable lyric. We\u2019ve always viewed those types of songs as\u00a0our benchmarks.\u201d<\/p>\n

After completing the album\u2014or believing they had completed it\u2014the brothers found they weren\u2019t quite satisfied with the results. Deciding that a funkier vibe was in order, they contacted Jerry Hey, the horn arranger famous for his work with Earth, Wind & Fire, Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson. True to his reputation, Hey came up with sizzling horn parts that sometimes took the form of a lead instrument. \u201cWe had a serious conversation about what the goal for the horns should be,\u201d Hanson says. \u201cJerry put it well when he said the goal should be something like \u2018All You Need Is Love,\u2019 where the horns add so much to the song, to the point where people actually sing those parts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also contributing was bassist Bob Babbitt of Motown house band the Funk Brothers, who upped the groove factor on several songs. \u201cThe way the drums are pushing forward while the bass is staying straight created a great feel,\u201d Hanson says. \u201cIn some instances, Bob played so far behind the beat, he was almost ahead of it. That kind of skill comes only from experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Hanson has moved relentlessly forward over the years, it still deals with those who think of them as the\u00a0bright-eyed teens who made their debut with the irresistibly bubblegummy 1997\u00a0chart-topper \u201cMMMBop.\u201d \u201cSome people know us for that, and some people know us as \u2018those kids from Oklahoma,\u2019\u201d Hanson says with a shrug. \u201cBut I think most people see us as what we are, which is a true\u00a0rock \u2019n\u2019 roll band from heartland America.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Russell Hall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HANSON Shouting out loud their love of classic R&B and rock \u2019n\u2019 roll Hanson\u2019s last album, 2007\u2019s The Walk, was comprised of weighty songs about facing conflicts and overcoming obstacles. For the new Shout It Out, the Tulsa,\u00a0Okla.-based band was determined to rediscover its sense of joy. \u201cWe wanted to make a summer record,\u201d says […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2276,80,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018"}],"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=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3020,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions\/3020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}