{"id":40556,"date":"2025-03-11T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T10:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=40556"},"modified":"2025-03-15T00:12:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T23:12:47","slug":"mike-farris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2025\/03\/mike-farris\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Farris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mike-Farris-The-Sound-Of-Muscle-Shoals.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mike-Farris-The-Sound-Of-Muscle-Shoals.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mike-Farris-The-Sound-Of-Muscle-Shoals.jpg?resize=1024%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mike-Farris-The-Sound-Of-Muscle-Shoals.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Mike-Farris-The-Sound-Of-Muscle-Shoals.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Voor zijn eerste nieuwe album sinds <em>Silver &#038; Stone<\/em> uit 2018 trok <a href=\"https:\/\/mikefarrismusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Farris <\/a>vanuit Nashville de Tennessee-rivier over naar niets minder dan Muscle Shoals in Alabama, om in de legendarische FAME-studio <strong>The Sound of Muscle Shoals<\/strong> (Fame Records) op te nemen. Meteen boekte hij ook maar de al even legendarische Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: Clayton Ivey (toetsen), Will McFarlane, Kelvin Holly, Wes Sheffield (gitaar), Jimbo Hart (bas) en Justin Holder (drums). Op de plek waar onder veel anderen Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James en de Rolling Stones hun grootste hits opnamen<!--more-->, maakte Mike Farris een album dat volledig recht doet aan de ter plekke manifeste geest van soul, blues, rock en gospel. Het is de soort muziek waarin zijn machtige \u2018blue-eyed soul vocals\u2019 het best uit de verf komen. Hij stormt uit de startblokken met de loeiende soulrocker <em>Ease On<\/em>, stuift door met <em>Heavy On The Humble<\/em> om pas in de Bob Seger-achtige soulballad <em>Swingin\u2019<\/em> wat tot bedaren te komen. <em>I\u2019ll Come Running <\/em>is vrij kalme blues in soulsfeer, maar wel met imposante vocale uithalen. <em>Slow Train, Before There Was You &#038; I <\/em>en <em>Her <\/em>zijn countrysoul \u00e0 la Dan Penn en Spooner Oldham en <em>Bright Light<\/em> is vriendelijke country.<em> Learning To Love<\/em> begint rustig, maar loopt uit naar lekker smerig, slepend gitaarwerk. In de elegante afsluiter <em>Sunset Road<\/em> raadt Harris ons aan niet te veel te tobben, maar toen hij dit schreef was het nog geen maart 2025. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Tu8nJ_G145Q\" title=\"Ease On\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voor zijn eerste nieuwe album sinds Silver &#038; Stone uit 2018 trok Mike Farris vanuit Nashville de Tennessee-rivier over naar niets minder dan Muscle Shoals in Alabama, om in de legendarische FAME-studio The Sound of Muscle Shoals (Fame Records) op te nemen. Meteen boekte hij ook maar de al even legendarische Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recensies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40587,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40556\/revisions\/40587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}