{"id":5522,"date":"2012-02-13T20:27:38","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T18:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/?p=5522"},"modified":"2014-11-04T18:14:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T17:14:37","slug":"the-james-low-western-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/2012\/02\/the-james-low-western-front\/","title":{"rendered":"The James Low Western Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.cdbaby.name\/t\/h\/thejameslowwesternfront.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>Met 27 minuten speelduur is dit <strong>Whiskey Farmer<\/strong> (Union Made Records) nogal kort, maar dat is nauwelijks een bezwaar. De knap geschreven liedjes kun je namelijk zonder problemen op repeat zetten. Met acht nummers heeft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jameslowwesternfront.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">The James Low Western Front<\/a> voldoende te bieden. Allereerst is er de door de voortreffelijke producer Mike Coykendall vastgelegde sound. Het is altcountry volgens het boekje zoals het geschreven is door The Jayhawks. James Low gaat voorop, maar zijn zang is een voorbeeld dat door het front<!--more--> wordt gevolgd. Bovendien is dat front versterkt met gasten als Lewi Longmire (orgels) en de van Richmond Fontaine bekende Paul Brainard (pedal steel, dobro). Net als deze musici is ook dit front actief vanuit Portland, Oregon. Dat het trouwens niks uitmaakt waar je vandaan komt, betoogt Low in fraaie bewoordingen op The Stars Don\u2019t Care: <em>The stars shine on Texas \/ They shine on Paris \/ They shine on Portland \/ The stars don\u2019t care \/ Where would I be \/ I lived my whole life beneath them stars \/ And I don\u2019t care<\/em>. Vergelijkbaar is de tekst van Thinking California: <em>Thinking California \/ Living a Texas life \/ Nothing I do seems to bother \/ This dusty sky<\/em>. In het met een countrypiano getoonzette Words komt hij nog even terug op de whiskey van het titelnummer: <em>Put your lips close to the fire \/ And when your words glow like hot iron \/ You can tell me then \/ Use your tongue your surgeous knife \/ To cut out the thing I feel inside \/ And I will start to mend \/ And I\u2019ll drink whiskey to ease my pain \/ I will never think of you quite the same \/ And I will never love you again<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Met 27 minuten speelduur is dit Whiskey Farmer (Union Made Records) nogal kort, maar dat is nauwelijks een bezwaar. De knap geschreven liedjes kun je namelijk zonder problemen op repeat zetten. Met acht nummers heeft The James Low Western Front voldoende te bieden. Allereerst is er de door de voortreffelijke producer Mike Coykendall vastgelegde sound. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-5522","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\/5522","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12694,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5522\/revisions\/12694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altcountry.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}