{"id":6830,"date":"2014-12-15T05:37:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6830"},"modified":"2014-12-15T05:37:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T10:37:05","slug":"cd-review-mark-muleman-massey-one-step-ahead-of-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/15\/cd-review-mark-muleman-massey-one-step-ahead-of-the-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Mark &#8220;Muleman&#8221; Massey &#8212; One Step Ahead of the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/muleman_massey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"20\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<strong>Mark \u201cMuleman\u201d Massey \u2013 <\/strong><em><strong>One Step Ahead of the Blues<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nYou might argue that blues guitarists are a dime a dozen, and as much as I love &#8217;em (the good ones, anyway), I&#8217;d have a hard time arguing against the assertion. Massey is a deft practitioner of the style, and while on this album he doesn&#8217;t do anything especially innovative, that&#8217;s arguably not the job of a bluesman. His vocals favor <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=6562\"><strong>B.B. King<\/strong><\/a>, his playing is lean&#8217;n&#8217;mean, and songwriting and production by Memphis legend <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=4284\"><strong>Don Nix<\/strong><\/a> (at Ardent Studios, no less) guarantees quality. Soulful horn charts and gurgling B3 are expertly worked into the mix. You could easily do worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark \u201cMuleman\u201d Massey \u2013 One Step Ahead of the Blues You might argue that blues guitarists are a dime a dozen, and as much as I love &#8217;em (the good [&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":[9,49,65],"tags":[1404],"class_list":["post-6830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blues","category-new-release","category-review","tag-mark-muleman-massey","cat-9-id","cat-49-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}