{"id":8495,"date":"2015-09-18T05:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T09:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2015-09-18T05:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T09:30:52","slug":"album-mini-review-billy-wyman-back-to-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/18\/album-mini-review-billy-wyman-back-to-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Bill Wyman &#8212; Back to Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/wyman_basics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center>File next to: <strong>Pete Townshend&#8217;s Deep End<\/strong>,<strong> Ian Dury<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B00VTHKWIS&amp;asins=B00VTHKWIS&amp;linkId=WSAEAWAFJ5KVYW6O&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>During his time (1962-1993) with the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=621\"><strong>Rolling Stones<\/strong><\/a>, bassist <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=657\"><strong>Bill Wyman<\/strong><\/a> released three albums that displayed his particular (if low-key) musical sensibilities. After the success of his friends-and-all project <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=576\"><strong>Willie &amp; the Poor Boys<\/strong><\/a>, he adopted that approach for his long-running aggregation, <strong>The Rhythm Kings<\/strong>. That busman&#8217;s holiday aggregation was a low-pressure way for Wyman to hang out with talented friends, focusing on live dates and albums that presented beloved covers from early- and pre-rock&#8217;n&#8217;roll eras. <em>Back to Basics<\/em> employs a similar method: it features straightforward, polished musicality, wry lyrical wordplay, and Wyman&#8217;s gravelly, unprepossessing vocals that recall the late Ian Dury. Whether one would call the album \u201cconsistent\u201d or \u201csamey\u201d likely has much to do with how one feels about Wyman&#8217;s understated and unpretentious musical approach in general. The bottom line is that it pleases Wyman, and as he approaches his eightieth birthday in October 2016, that&#8217;s success enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" name=\"graphics3\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" align=\"BOTTOM\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\"> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Pete Townshend&#8217;s Deep End, Ian Dury During his time (1962-1993) with the Rolling Stones, bassist Bill Wyman released three albums that displayed his particular (if low-key) musical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,65],"tags":[318,1879],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-review","tag-bill-wyman","tag-rolling-stones","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","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=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}