{"id":519,"date":"2010-08-10T16:54:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=519"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:54:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:54:38","slug":"gary-allan-get-off-on-the-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/gary-allan-get-off-on-the-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"GARY ALLAN + Get Off on the Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GARY-ALLAN-Get-Off-on-the-Pain-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-520\" title=\"GARY-ALLAN-Get-Off-on-the-Pain-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GARY-ALLAN-Get-Off-on-the-Pain-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"GARY ALLAN - Get Off on the Pain \" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GARY-ALLAN-Get-Off-on-the-Pain-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GARY-ALLAN-Get-Off-on-the-Pain-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>GARY ALLAN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Get Off on the Pain<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[MCA Nashville]<\/p>\n<p>Leave it to Gary Allan to make ex sex sound romantic: \u201cKiss Me When I\u2019m Down,\u201d a standout track from his latest album, cleverly disguises a booty call with a sweeping melody and rich steel-and-strings orchestration. That kind of sly juxtaposition dominates <em>Get Off on the Pain<\/em>, Allan\u2019s eighth studio album. He and coproducers Greg Droman and Mark Wright layer robust guitars, steel, piano, Wurlitzer, B3 and strings atop the singer\u2019s trademark Bakersfield barroom style without losing the homegrown feel. Allan\u2019s voice is a textured drawl that evokes Johnny Cash\u2019s world-weary tone and adds dimension to the album\u2019s more spare arrangements. It\u2019s easy for someone of Allan\u2019s talent to get lost among modern country music\u2019s cowboy-hatted clones\u2014but just as his voice cuts cleanly through the arrangements here, he has always managed to make himself heard above the din. <em>Pain<\/em> suggests he will for quite a while longer.\u00a0 \u2013KD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GARY ALLAN Get Off on the Pain [MCA Nashville] Leave it to Gary Allan to make ex sex sound romantic: \u201cKiss Me When I\u2019m Down,\u201d a standout track from his latest album, cleverly disguises a booty call with a sweeping melody and rich steel-and-strings orchestration. That kind of sly juxtaposition dominates Get Off on the [&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":[196,200,201,32,202],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}