{"id":3627,"date":"2011-10-07T11:44:16","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3627"},"modified":"2011-10-07T11:44:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T18:44:16","slug":"butch-walker-and-the-black-widows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/butch-walker-and-the-black-widows\/","title":{"rendered":"BUTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-BUTCH-WALKER-AND-THE-BLACK-WIDOWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3628\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-BUTCH-WALKER-AND-THE-BLACK-WIDOWS.jpg\" alt=\"BUTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-BUTCH-WALKER-AND-THE-BLACK-WIDOWS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-BUTCH-WALKER-AND-THE-BLACK-WIDOWS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>UTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>The Spade<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Dangerbird]<\/p>\n<p>Butch Walker has been putting out catchy pop-punk records for years, yet he\u2019s probably more famous as a producer and songwriter (his credits include Weezer, Pink and Avril Lavigne) than as a performer. <em>The Spade<\/em> is his most infectious effort yet, so if it fails to turn him into a breakout star you can blame it on the sorry fact that few artists suddenly make it on the radio after 40. Just how skilled a craftsman is Walker (who\u2019s 41, by the way)? He can do the Stones on the cocky, strutting \u201cSweethearts\u201d and sound completely different than he does on his imitation of the Stones-worshiping Black Crowes (\u201cClosest Thing to You I\u2019m Gonna Find\u201d). Trouble is, Walker\u2019s 2004 album <em>Letters<\/em> proved he could grab people with his introspective lyrics and not just his melodies\u2014but here he\u2019s stuck singing about bar fights and reminiscing about Bryan Adams. Walker can dig deeper than that. \u2013David Styburski<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BUTCH WALKER AND THE BLACK WIDOWS The Spade [Dangerbird] Butch Walker has been putting out catchy pop-punk records for years, yet he\u2019s probably more famous as a producer and songwriter (his credits include Weezer, Pink and Avril Lavigne) than as a performer. The Spade is his most infectious effort yet, so if it fails to [&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":[196,2490,2492,2482,2491],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627"}],"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=3627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3629,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3627\/revisions\/3629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}