{"id":4911,"date":"2012-02-17T20:38:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=4911"},"modified":"2012-02-17T20:39:22","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T03:39:22","slug":"the-white-buffalo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/02\/the-white-buffalo-2\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WHITE BUFFALO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4912\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-Dec2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/THE-WHITE-BUFFALO-M-Review-Dec2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>T<\/strong><strong>HE WHITE BUFFALO<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Once Upon a Time<br \/>\nin the West<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Unison Music Group]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Given his ramshackle narratives and sober sentiments, Jake Smith (a.k.a. the White Buffalo) seems to fit comfortably into the alt-country lineage of Uncle Tupelo and its offspring, Wilco and Son Volt. But if the album title suggests an Ennio Morricone film score, it\u2019s also true that the dark characters Smith imagines are not unlike Clint Eastwood\u2019s Man With No Name\u2014fueled by gritty defiance and a squinty-eyed perspective. The strongest songs are the rowdy and rollicking \u201cHow the West Was Worn,\u201d \u201cThe Bowery,\u201d \u201cWish It Was True\u201d and \u201cHold the Line,\u201d in which Smith strums, stomps and spews his restless ruminations. Whether reimagining his youthful escapades in \u201cBB Guns and Dirt Bikes\u201d or etching images of war via \u201cBallad of a Dead Man\u201d and \u201cThe Pilot,\u201d he takes his cues from everyday encounters and then elevates them to heroic proportions. \u2013LZ<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WHITE BUFFALO Once Upon a Time in the West [Unison Music Group] Given his ramshackle narratives and sober sentiments, Jake Smith (a.k.a. the White Buffalo) seems to fit comfortably into the alt-country lineage of Uncle Tupelo and its offspring, Wilco and Son Volt. But if the album title suggests an Ennio Morricone film score, [&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":[196,3032,3077,1539,3078],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911"}],"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=4911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4914,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4911\/revisions\/4914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}