{"id":836,"date":"2012-07-25T05:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=836"},"modified":"2012-07-25T05:28:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:28:25","slug":"album-review-tommy-roe-devils-soul-pile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/07\/25\/album-review-tommy-roe-devils-soul-pile\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Tommy Roe &#8211; Devil\u2019s Soul Pile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/tommy_roe_dsp.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"280\" vspace=\"10\" width=\"280\" hspace=\"10\" \/>When you hear <strong>Tommy Roe<\/strong>&#8216;s name, you can&#8217;t help but remember \u201cDizzy\u201d and\/or \u201cSheila,\u201d two of his hits from the 1960s. And that was a <em>long<\/em> time ago. His latest, <em>Devil&#8217;s Soul Pile<\/em> (huh?) is a breezy, pleasant midtempo affair that serves to remind fans that he&#8217;s still creating new material, rather than (only) working the nostalgia circuit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\">By definition, <em>Devil&#8217;s Soul Pile<\/em> is a somewhat musically anonymous affair: there are no musician credits,  other than Roe&#8217;s liner note message thanking \u201call the engineers, singers and musicians.&#8221; I could tell you that the album was recorded in Nashville, but a few seconds of listening would have told you the very same thing. Not a note is out of place; whether that&#8217;s a good or bad thing is up to the listener. But in contrast to the music, the lyrical subject matter on most all of the songs has a nicely personal bent: not so much as to make one squirm, but Roe definitely scores points for aiming for what&#8217;s real and true. And on \u201cWithout Her,\u201d Roe suggests a sort of Nashville version of <strong>The Raspberries<\/strong> at their most sentimental.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\" class=\"body\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" valign=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"18\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"18\" hspace=\"1\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you hear Tommy Roe&#8216;s name, you can&#8217;t help but remember \u201cDizzy\u201d and\/or \u201cSheila,\u201d two of his hits from the 1960s. And that was a long time ago. His latest, [&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":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}