{"id":14907,"date":"2018-07-21T05:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T09:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=14907"},"modified":"2018-07-20T17:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-20T21:00:50","slug":"album-review-alien-country-like-my-life-depends-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/07\/21\/album-review-alien-country-like-my-life-depends-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Alien Country \u2013 Like My Life Depends On It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14908\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/alien_country.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/alien_country.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/alien_country-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/alien_country-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>A few years back, I recall there was a motion picture called <i>Cowboys and Aliens<\/i> or somesuch. Based only on the title \u2013 I didn\u2019t care to investigate further \u2013 I found the film\u2019s high-concept premise to be, well, <i>stupid<\/i>. So when I came across <i>Like My Life Depends On It<\/i>, the new album by a group calling itself Alien Country, my initial reaction was similar. Then I saw the cover art, which did nothing to change that first impression. But <i>what the hell<\/i>, I thought, <i>why not listen<\/i>? And so I did.<\/p>\n<p>Good thing. Like My Life Depends On It has little or nothing to do with cowboys lasso-roping little green men. It\u2019s more of a boot-scootin\u2019 good time, with sturdy songwriting and playing. There\u2019s a loose, spashy feel to the drums that gives the whole affair a rough-hewn, honky-tonk vibe. The overlapping vocals on \u201cRelaity Check\u201d suggest that our heroes may have consumed a few to many Fireball shots (or funneled one too many Michelob Ultras) but it\u2019s fun in a loose-limbed kind of way.<\/p>\n<p>The hoary vocals sometimes recall Jerry Garcia at his, well, hoariest, but somehow that suits the music. This album certainly doesn\u2019t fit into the insipid bro-country genre, nor does it quite make the grade as Americana. But as current-day c&amp;w it\u2019ll work just fine. And that\u2019s enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, I recall there was a motion picture called Cowboys and Aliens or somesuch. Based only on the title \u2013 I didn\u2019t care to investigate further \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14908,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,49,65],"tags":[3501],"class_list":["post-14907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country","category-new-release","category-review","tag-alien-country","cat-20-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907","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=14907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14913,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14907\/revisions\/14913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}