{"id":3698,"date":"2011-10-09T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T22:15:30","slug":"the-wood-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/the-wood-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WOOD BROTHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-WOOD-BROTHERS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3699\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-WOOD-BROTHERS.jpg\" alt=\"THE WOOD BROTHERS\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-WOOD-BROTHERS.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-JulyAugust2011-THE-WOOD-BROTHERS-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>THE WOOD BROTHERS<\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Smoke Ring Halo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>thewoodbrothers.com<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to crossover successes Mumford &amp; Sons and the Avett Brothers\u2014whippersnappers who jammed with Bob Dylan at this year\u2019s Grammys\u2014Americana is hotter than fresh-baked pie on Mama\u2019s windowsill. Woefully missing from the Grammy hootenanny were the Wood Brothers, virtuosic Colorado natives with a refreshing take on rootsy sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver and Chris Wood haven\u2019t recorded with Rick Rubin like the Avetts, or courted an indie-rock audience like the Mumfords, but on their third album they sling shovelfuls of twang, funk, humor and soul. They\u2019re schooled in classic country, folk and blues, but they favor hooks and grooves over old-timey formalism. Guitarist Oliver sings with a meaty, smoky drawl, sounding alternately weary (\u201cPay Attention\u201d), jovial (\u201cShoofly Pie\u201d), reassuring (\u201cSmoke Ring Halo\u201d) and reflective (\u201cWhen I Was Young\u201d). Chris adds harmony and plays jazz-cat upright bass, slipping in slinky yet subtle lines, much like he does with his other band, Medeski, Martin &amp; Wood. The musicianship is fantastic, but the Woods get by on songs. On closer \u201cBlue and Green,\u201d Oliver reminisces about his mother and grandmother, linking past and present with great love and respect. After all, that\u2019s what he and his brother do best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WOOD BROTHERS Smoke Ring Halo thewoodbrothers.com Thanks to crossover successes Mumford &amp; Sons and the Avett Brothers\u2014whippersnappers who jammed with Bob Dylan at this year\u2019s Grammys\u2014Americana is hotter than fresh-baked pie on Mama\u2019s windowsill. Woefully missing from the Grammy hootenanny were the Wood Brothers, virtuosic Colorado natives with a refreshing take on rootsy sounds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[196,10159,2482,2540,2541,2539],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698"}],"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=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3786,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}