{"id":11443,"date":"2016-09-12T05:45:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T09:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11443"},"modified":"2016-09-12T07:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T11:54:30","slug":"album-mini-review-waiting-for-henry-town-called-patience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/12\/album-mini-review-waiting-for-henry-town-called-patience\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Waiting for Henry &#8212; Town Called Patience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/waiting_henry.jpg\" alt=\"waiting_henry\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11444\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/waiting_henry.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/waiting_henry-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01KR30DZG&#038;asins=B01KR30DZG&#038;linkId=88cafea3076788d4518cdda8b74f49c4&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Jayhawks<\/strong>, <strong>Wilco<\/strong>, <strong>Gin Blossoms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Inside the college rock movement of the 1980s, there was a kind of proto-alt-country vibe that informed later groups like Wilco and <strong>Old 97s<\/strong>. There are echoes of that scene in the warm and friendly country-rock of <i>Town Called Patience<\/i>. Sharp hooks and memorable lead guitar lines provide a sympathetic and effective musical backdrop for the lyrics of <strong>Dave Slomin<\/strong> and <strong>David Ashdown<\/strong>. Slomin&#8217;s radio-ready vocals draw the listener in, and Ashdown&#8217;s raspy voice often strikes a world-weary tone on his numbers. The jangle quotient is high on tracks like \u201cParsippany\u201d and \u201cCould it Be.\u201d The four-piece New Jersey band is aided and abetted in the studio by producer <strong>Mitch Easter<\/strong>, who creates a tight and unified (but not glossy) feel for the twelve tunes on this, the group&#8217;s follow-up to <i>Ghosts &amp; Compromise<\/i>, their 2013 debut.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Jayhawks, Wilco, Gin Blossoms Inside the college rock movement of the 1980s, there was a kind of proto-alt-country vibe that informed later groups like Wilco and Old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,49,62,65],"tags":[1492,2825],"class_list":["post-11443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alt-country","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-mitch-easter","tag-waiting-for-henry","cat-4-id","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11445,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11443\/revisions\/11445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}