{"id":8711,"date":"2012-09-16T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-16T10:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2012-09-16T10:18:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-16T10:18:25","slug":"little-big-town-first-big-tornado-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/16\/little-big-town-first-big-tornado-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Big Town Big Tornado Watch Upgraded To One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Academy Of Country Music Wants To Know Which Tornado Are You?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So…Which ‘Tornado’ Are You?!<\/strong><\/h4>\n
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Little Big Town’s new album TORNADO is in stores NOW!<\/h4>\n

And we have your chance to win the album, autographed guitar & more!<\/h4>\n

For your chance to win,<\/h4>\n

ENTER HERE<\/a>.<\/h4>\n
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The song is their first No. 1 hit in 13 years as a band<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Little Big Town assert themselves as a vocal quartet with real power and attitude on their new album \u2018Tornado.\u2019 The project \u2014 their most consistent and satisfying yet \u2014 sheds the milquetoast midtemp0 exercises that bogged down previous albums in favor of ones with true grit.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pavement Ends\u2019 sets the tone for an album that goes back and forth between swampy, guitar-drenched foot-stompers and vulnerable, inspirational ballads. \u2018Pontoon,\u2019 as it turns out, is not an exception to the style of \u2018Tornado.\u2019 The foursome adhere strictly to a rule of stomp from start to finish.<\/p>\n

Previously, Little Big Town has relied on bare bones production to dress their tight, four-part harmonies. There are still examples of this; the haunting and inspirational \u2018Can\u2019t Go Back\u2019 is naked in comparison to meaty cuts like \u2018Front Porch Thing\u2019 and the oh-so-contagious \u2018On Fire Tonight.\u2019 There\u2019s no true lead vocalist on \u2018Can\u2019t Go Back,\u2019 however, with Jimi Westbrook, Karen Fairchild, Phillip Sweet and Kimberly Schlapman teaming up for a chorus sent down from the heavens.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Credit producer Jay Joyce for assembling an innovative and aggressive collection of effects to compliment these four. He\u2019s faced with challenges \u2014 transitioning between \u2018On Fire Tonight\u2019 and \u2018Can\u2019t Go Back,\u2019 for example \u2014 but finds creative ways to overcome natural obstacles without much notice. It\u2019s a superb effort.<\/p>\n

Even in the dips, Little Big Town find interesting ways to deliver corny or well-known messages. The drunk-on-love \u2018Sober\u2019 doesn\u2019t stand up to the powerful emotions on songs like \u2018Tornado\u2019 and \u2018You\u2019re Side of the Bed\u2019 (brace yourself for this heartbreaking ballad, perhaps their best ever), but Schlapman\u2019s effort as lead vocalist turns it into a satisfying and sweet interlude. \u2018Leavin\u2019 in Your Eyes\u2019 does something similar. Without these two \u2014 and perhaps \u2018Night Owl,\u2019 a cool-down song \u2014 \u2018Tornado\u2019 would be exhausting. Instead, it\u2019s a roller-coaster you can\u2019t wait to stand in line for again and again.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Academy Of Country Music Wants To Know Which Tornado Are You? So…Which ‘Tornado’ Are You?! Little Big Town’s new album TORNADO is in stores NOW! And we have your chance to win the album, autographed guitar & more! For your chance to win, ENTER HERE. . The song is their first No. 1 hit in 13 years as a band Little Big Town assert themselves as a vocal quartet with real power and attitude on their new album \u2018Tornado.\u2019 The project \u2014 their most consistent and satisfying yet \u2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}