{"id":753,"date":"2010-08-13T10:32:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-08-13T10:32:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T17:32:29","slug":"court-yard-hounds-court-yard-hounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/court-yard-hounds-court-yard-hounds\/","title":{"rendered":"COURT YARD HOUNDS + Court Yard Hounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Court-Yard-Hounds-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-754\" title=\"Court-Yard-Hounds-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Court-Yard-Hounds-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Court Yard Hounds\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Court-Yard-Hounds-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Court-Yard-Hounds-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>C<\/strong><strong>OURT YARD HOUNDS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Court Yard Hounds<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Columbia]<\/p>\n<p>A side project of Dixie Chicks\u2019 Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, <em>Court Yard Hounds<\/em> delivers much-anticipated insight\u2014both musical and personal\u2014into the sisters who have for so long ceded center stage to Chicks singer Natalie Maines. Though steeped in familiar instrumentation, the album offers little of the barn-burning brashness that made the Chicks famous (save perhaps the gutsy \u201cAin\u2019t No Son\u201d). Instead, its delicate folk-pop prettiness perfectly suits Robison\u2019s more-than-capable voice and the jumble of emotions, sunny and melancholy, that emerge in a song cycle inspired by her 2008 divorce. Maguire\u2019s weeping fiddle and seamless harmonies are welcome as always, and her one turn on lead vocals (\u201cGracefully\u201d) is so warmly affecting that listeners may wish she stepped to the mic more often. <em>Court Yard Hounds<\/em> ably demonstrates that, whether with their fellow Dixie Chick or without, these ladies\u2019 talent runs deep.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Katie Dodd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COURT YARD HOUNDS Court Yard Hounds [Columbia] A side project of Dixie Chicks\u2019 Martie Maguire and Emily Robison, Court Yard Hounds delivers much-anticipated insight\u2014both musical and personal\u2014into the sisters who have for so long ceded center stage to Chicks singer Natalie Maines. Though steeped in familiar instrumentation, the album offers little of the barn-burning brashness [&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":[196,389,388,70],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}