{"id":977,"date":"2010-08-16T11:02:18","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=977"},"modified":"2010-08-16T11:02:18","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T18:02:18","slug":"bob-cheevers-tall-texas-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/bob-cheevers-tall-texas-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"BOB CHEEVERS + Tall Texas Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tall-Texas-Tales-M-Review-June2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-978\" title=\"Tall-Texas-Tales-M-Review-June2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tall-Texas-Tales-M-Review-June2010.jpg\" alt=\"Tall Texas Tales\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tall-Texas-Tales-M-Review-June2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tall-Texas-Tales-M-Review-June2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>B<\/strong><strong>OB CHEEVERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tall Texas Tales<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bobcheevers.com\" target=\"_blank\">bobcheevers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The album cover offers a first hint of Bob Cheevers\u2019 venerable nature\u2014with a portrait that resembles the rugged Indian chief once etched on an old nickel, he projects an air of grizzled authenticity. And Cheevers is the real deal, a dusty Texas troubadour with a wise perspective and a weathered set of tunes. Whether he\u2019s crooning everyday observations (\u201cGrown Up People,\u201d \u201cLuckenbach\u201d) moaning the blues (\u201cTexas Is an Only Child\u201d), waxing euphemistically (\u201cOne Good Rib\u201d) or purveying a weary road tale (\u201cBudget Motel\u201d), Cheevers fully inhabits the songs he sings. Pedal steel, acoustic guitars, banjo and fiddle put the music on firm footing with a sound that\u2019s emphatic but never overwhelming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOB CHEEVERS Tall Texas Tales bobcheevers.com The album cover offers a first hint of Bob Cheevers\u2019 venerable nature\u2014with a portrait that resembles the rugged Indian chief once etched on an old nickel, he projects an air of grizzled authenticity. And Cheevers is the real deal, a dusty Texas troubadour with a wise perspective and a [&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":[196,572,574,10159,80,573],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977"}],"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=977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}