{"id":6732,"date":"2012-06-22T08:54:37","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2012-06-22T08:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T15:54:55","slug":"j-d-blair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/j-d-blair\/","title":{"rendered":"J.D. BLAIR"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6733\" title=\"JD-BLAIR-M-Review-May2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JD-BLAIR-M-Review-May2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JD-BLAIR-M-Review-May2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/JD-BLAIR-M-Review-May2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>J<\/strong><strong>.D. BLAIR<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>2012?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>vixrecords.com<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Only one song on the latest from this groove master comes with the parenthetical \u201c(Smooth Mix)\u201d appended to the title, but the tag could apply throughout. An ace session and touring drummer, Blair has played with everyone from Bootsy Collins to Yo-Yo Ma, earning special recognition for his country work. It all comes together on <em>2012?<\/em>\u2014an album that, true to its title, transcends time and place. Blair\u2019s Nashville adventures inform \u201cDruthers II\u201d and \u201cThere Is a Fountain Filled With Blood,\u201d funky, fiddle-laced tunes that blend dance club and honky-tonk. With their slap bass, synth and brass, the other tracks could be \u201990s Prince jams. Almost entirely instrumental, the record contains four spoken words that say it all: \u201cSmells like a groove!\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J.D. BLAIR 2012? vixrecords.com Only one song on the latest from this groove master comes with the parenthetical \u201c(Smooth Mix)\u201d appended to the title, but the tag could apply throughout. An ace session and touring drummer, Blair has played with everyone from Bootsy Collins to Yo-Yo Ma, earning special recognition for his country work. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[3979,196,2416,10159,4020,3754,4021,4022],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732"}],"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=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6735,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}