{"id":9650,"date":"2013-05-08T00:22:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9650"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:22:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:22:21","slug":"dale-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/dale-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"DALE WATSON"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9651\" alt=\"Dale-Watson-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dale-Watson-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dale-Watson-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dale-Watson-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>DALE WATSON<\/h1>\n<p><b><i>El Rancho Azul<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Red House]<\/p>\n<p>Texas troubadour Dale Watson is a master storyteller who navigates his own plot twists with offhanded ease. He\u2019s equally capable of wise-guy attitude and wistful nostalgia, and his generous spirit shines through on this, a set of hardcore honky-tonk spiked with traditional Western swing and Bakersfield country. This is Watson\u2019s first recording with regular touring band the Lone Stars, whose rowdy twang is an obvious match for his pliable baritone. Six of the 14 tracks reference alcohol or barrooms in their titles, and the sad-sack likes of \u201cI Lie When I Drink\u201d and \u201cThanks to Tequila\u201d uphold his reputation for remaining nonchalant even in the harshest of circumstances. Watson sings of barflies and pretty lies without exposing much of his private affairs, but on highlights \u201cWe\u2019re Gonna Get Married\u201d and \u201cDaughter\u2019s Wedding Song,\u201d he lays bare his vulnerable soul. \u2013Blake Boldt<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DALE WATSON El Rancho Azul [Red House] Texas troubadour Dale Watson is a master storyteller who navigates his own plot twists with offhanded ease. He\u2019s equally capable of wise-guy attitude and wistful nostalgia, and his generous spirit shines through on this, a set of hardcore honky-tonk spiked with traditional Western swing and Bakersfield country. This [&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":[196,6428,6429,6427,6430],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650"}],"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=9650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9652,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9650\/revisions\/9652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}