{"id":6995,"date":"2012-08-02T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6995"},"modified":"2012-08-02T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T09:15:00","slug":"blues-traveler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/08\/blues-traveler\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUES TRAVELER"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6996\" title=\"BLUES-TRAVELER-M-Review-June2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BLUES-TRAVELER-M-Review-June2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BLUES-TRAVELER-M-Review-June2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/BLUES-TRAVELER-M-Review-June2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>B<\/strong><strong>LUES TRAVELER<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Suzie Cracks the Whip<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[429 Records]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After more than two decades on the jam-band circuit, Blues Traveler doesn\u2019t stray from a comfortable formula on its first album in four years. Though lacking anything as indelible as 1990s favorites like \u201cRun-Around\u201d and \u201cBut Anyway,\u201d <em>Suzie Cracks the Whip<\/em> is another respectable installment in the group\u2019s catalogue. Frontman John Popper\u2019s high-pitched vocals and stretched-out harmonica solos dominate <em>Suzie<\/em>, a collection of sturdy tunes ripe with pumped-up grooves driven by the tighter-than-tight rhythm section of drummer Brendan Hill and bass player Tad Kinchla. Some songs drag and sag under the weight of Popper\u2019s lengthy interludes, but the band shines through with a few well-played moments of restraint. <em>Suzie<\/em> closes with the piano ballad \u201cCara Let the Moon,\u201d which shows how impressive this act can be when bypassing its showier impulses. \u2013BB<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLUES TRAVELER Suzie Cracks the Whip [429 Records] After more than two decades on the jam-band circuit, Blues Traveler doesn\u2019t stray from a comfortable formula on its first album in four years. Though lacking anything as indelible as 1990s favorites like \u201cRun-Around\u201d and \u201cBut Anyway,\u201d Suzie Cracks the Whip is another respectable installment in 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":[1081,196,4430,4300,4431],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995"}],"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=6995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6997,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6995\/revisions\/6997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}