{"id":9698,"date":"2013-05-08T00:50:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=9698"},"modified":"2013-05-08T00:50:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T07:50:05","slug":"robben-ford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/05\/robben-ford\/","title":{"rendered":"ROBBEN FORD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><b><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9699\" alt=\"ROBBEN-FORD-M-Review-No25\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ROBBEN-FORD-M-Review-No25.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ROBBEN-FORD-M-Review-No25.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/ROBBEN-FORD-M-Review-No25-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>R<\/b><b>OBBEN FORD<\/b><\/h1>\n<p><b><i>Bringing It Back Home<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Provogue]<\/p>\n<p>The title suggests that sometime during his four-decade career, Robben Ford abandoned the blues, but that\u2019s not true. Even while immersed in jazz\u2014he played with Miles Davis and was a member of the Yellowjackets\u2014the gifted guitarist never completely strayed from the genre. Still, this is his most blues-saturated record in some time. Whether turning to established songsmiths (Earl King, Allen Toussaint) or penning his own material, Ford casts off the mannerisms of his more progressive work. The result is some of his most soulful, emotionally resonant music, as evidenced by his original ballad \u201cOh, Virginia\u201d and the minimalist \u201cTraveler\u2019s Waltz,\u201d credited to wife Anne Kerry Ford and Michael McDonald. And there\u2019s still plenty of rock and funk. \u201cFair Child\u201d is built on a grabber of a groove, and his soulful cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cMost Likely You Can Go Your Way and I\u2019ll Go Mine\u201d finds added depth in the organ and trombone. Ford\u2019s vocals aren\u2019t his greatest strength, but he gives it all he\u2019s got. \u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBBEN FORD Bringing It Back Home [Provogue] The title suggests that sometime during his four-decade career, Robben Ford abandoned the blues, but that\u2019s not true. Even while immersed in jazz\u2014he played with Miles Davis and was a member of the Yellowjackets\u2014the gifted guitarist never completely strayed from the genre. Still, this is his most blues-saturated [&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":[196,6459,6427,6460,6458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698"}],"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=9698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9700,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}