{"id":44203,"date":"2015-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/native-son\/"},"modified":"2015-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T00:00:00","slug":"native-son","status":"publish","type":"review","link":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/reviews\/native-son\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Tennessee\u2019s The Judybats were one of the most underrated bands snatched up in the big alternative\/modern rock major label signing frenzy. They put out some of the most interesting records and best singles of the early \u201890s. Their 1991 debut album was one of the best records of the year and one that deserves to be heard by as many people as possible in the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Boasting a keyboardist and an acoustic guitarist on top of the standard band, the Judybats definitely stood out and their amazing musicianship comes through in spades throughout this record. The singles that people remember, the title track and \u201cDon\u2019t Drop the Baby,\u201d are instantly recognizable as being offbeat and eclectic, part of that good ol\u2019 Southern charm the band carried with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">Vocalist Jeff Heiskell had one of those type of voices perfectly suited to the music the band was creating. Full of twang and melody, his voice would carry the band above the rest of the alt rock clique. Keyboardist\/backing vocalist Peggy Hambright and acoustic guitarist Johnny Sughrue complete the harmonic trio of melodic vocals that help bring to life songs like \u201cDaylight\u201d and \u201cCounting Sheep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\">The rest of the band, bassist Tim Stutz, electric guitarist Ed Winters and drummer Terry Casper were dynamic as hell and really helped songs like \u201cConvalescing In Spain,\u201d one of the oddest and best songs on the disc, really come to life. But the two best tracks really are \u201cIncognito\u201d and \u201cPerfumed Lies.\u201d The former is a very sparse song with some vocals, light keyboards and guitar that tells of a love who one doesn\u2019t really know. It\u2019s so hauntingly beautiful that one can\u2019t help but get absorbed in. The latter, written and sung by Sughrue, is one of the band\u2019s best ever songs. Well written and incredibly sung, Sughrue gets to the spirit of the song and brings it to its ultimate fruition.<\/p>\n<p>    In the end, the band was overlooked as a result of the glut of modern rock bands clogging up the airwaves. The title track managed to gain some traction, but it wasn\u2019t enough to make the band stand out for radio programmers. Fortunately, all these years later, people remember the Judybats more than say, Carter USM, the Katydids, Fury In The Slaughterhouse or any those other bands that don\u2019t mean anything in this day and age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":32444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9676],"rating":[5646],"class_list":["post-44203","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-the-judybats","rating-rating-a"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/44203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44203"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=44203"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=44203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}