{"id":7807,"date":"2012-10-29T22:32:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2012-10-29T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T05:32:45","slug":"the-world-famous-headliners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/10\/the-world-famous-headliners\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WORLD FAMOUS HEADLINERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7808\" title=\"THE-WORLD-FAMOUS-HEADLINERSM-Review-SeptOct-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/THE-WORLD-FAMOUS-HEADLINERSM-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/THE-WORLD-FAMOUS-HEADLINERSM-Review-SeptOct-2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/THE-WORLD-FAMOUS-HEADLINERSM-Review-SeptOct-2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>THE WORLD FAMOUS\u00a0HEADLINERS<\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>World Famous Headliners<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>worldfamousheadliners.com<\/p>\n<p>How do you know Big Al Anderson still loves his job? Leading this Nashville supergroup, the 65-year-old sounds younger than he did on \u201cNo Good to Cry,\u201d the garage nugget he cut in 1967 with the Wildweeds, the Connecticut band he fronted before serving 22 years with cult heroes NRBQ. In fact, singing and playing guitar is no longer Anderson\u2019s main gig. Since the 1990s, he\u2019s made his bread penning hits for country artists, as have his Headliners collaborators, Shawn Camp and Pat McLaughlin. Here, the three songwriters save some of the good stuff for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Because Anderson, Camp and McLaughlin come from Music Row, there\u2019s plenty of twang on these 13 songs. There\u2019s also power-pop, mangy wah-wah-laced blues, Van Morrison soul and Buddy Holly rock. \u201cNobody to Love\u201d is a kind of shuffling Americana take on \u201cOb-La-Di, Ob-La-Da\u201d ska, while opener \u201cGive Your Love to Me\u201d is a pop-a-billy scorcher loaded with silly come-ons and Beach Boys \u201cba-ba-ba\u201d backup vocals. On some of the longer songs, the fellas overindulge in trading Telecaster licks\u2014clearly amusing themselves\u2014but that\u2019s what headliners do. It\u2019s best to stand back and watch \u2019em go.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE WORLD FAMOUS\u00a0HEADLINERS World Famous Headliners worldfamousheadliners.com How do you know Big Al Anderson still loves his job? Leading this Nashville supergroup, the 65-year-old sounds younger than he did on \u201cNo Good to Cry,\u201d the garage nugget he cut in 1967 with the Wildweeds, the Connecticut band he fronted before serving 22 years with cult [&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":[196,10159,5077,5184,5185,5186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807"}],"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=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7810,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions\/7810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}