{"id":20706,"date":"2021-03-20T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20706"},"modified":"2021-03-21T11:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:22:53","slug":"album-review-jim-basnight-jokers-idols-misfits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/20\/album-review-jim-basnight-jokers-idols-misfits\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Jim Basnight &#8212; Jokers, Idols &#038; Misfits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20707\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jim_basnight_jim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jim_basnight_jim.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jim_basnight_jim-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jim_basnight_jim-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>What an interesting idea for an album. Yes, a collection of covers presented by an artist who writes his own music isn\u2019t at all without precedent. But on <em>Jokers, Idols &amp; Misfits<\/em>, Jim Basnight pays tribute to the wide range of artists whose work has inspired and informed his own. Twenty-one tunes \u2013 one each \u2013 by the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, New York Dolls and others is what makes up this set. But where Basnight &#8211; -who sings and plays guitar &#8211; -changes things p is in his approach to the music. He works with an assortment of lineups including his own band, the Moberlys and the Rockinghams. The three bands each have their own musical personalities, and Basnight has matched them to the music.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the tunes rock really hard: \u201cRock and Roll Cowboy,\u201d the Sonics\u2019 \u201cCinderella\u201d and the obscurity (Mike Cejak\u2019s \u201cMidnight Mission Hit Parade\u201d) have plenty of sweat \u2018n\u2019 swagger. Covers of baroque pop tunes by Stories and Turtles have a gentle touch. \u201cBrother Louie\u201d takes the song in a different direction than its original counterpart. The Who\u2019s \u201cI Can See for Miles\u201d is played pretty straight &#8211; -and thus offers nothing new \u2013 but it\u2019s so good that you won\u2019t mind.<\/p>\n<p>The best cuts here are a reading of the Dolls\u2019 \u201cLonely Planet Boy\u201d and a knowing cover of Paul Revere &amp; the Raiders gem, \u201cGood Thing.\u201d The Jim Basnight Band nails the faux-Beach Boys\/Terry Melcher vocal choruses, and the tune rocks. Basnight does his best Mark Lindsay; is that a little ponytail we see back there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an interesting idea for an album. Yes, a collection of covers presented by an artist who writes his own music isn\u2019t at all without precedent. But on Jokers, Idols [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,55,62,65],"tags":[3762],"class_list":["post-20706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-powerpop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-jim-basnight","cat-49-id","cat-55-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20706","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=20706"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20710,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20706\/revisions\/20710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}