{"id":481349,"date":"2019-01-25T09:40:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=782311"},"modified":"2019-01-25T09:40:36","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T16:40:36","slug":"song-you-need-to-know-hayes-carll-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/song-you-need-to-know-hayes-carll-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Song You Need to Know: Hayes Carll, \u2018What It Is\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/HayesCarll_DavidMcClisterPhoto_B4A0326_2W.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>You hardly expect a guy who\u2019s written songs with titles like \u201cBad Liver and a Broken Heart\u201d and \u201cGood While It Lasted\u201d to go all giddy on you. But everybody has a moment when they realize something cherished is over, yet there\u2019s no choice but to move on. For roustabout-looking Texas troubadour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hayes-carll\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hayes-carll\" data-tag=\"hayes-carll\">Hayes Carll<\/a>, that flash arrives on the title track of his upcoming sixth record, <em>What It Is<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Co-written with fellow singer-songwriter and fianc\u00e9e Allison Moorer, \u201cWhat It Is\u201d finds Carll walking away from a situation that doesn\u2019t sound terribly healthy \u2014 hearts broke, doors were slammed \u2014 and deciding to push on, even if another calamity could wait around the bend. \u201cEvery wave that crashes rearranges all the sand\/And puts another path in front of me,\u201d he sings in a voice that\u2019s grown increasingly grainy with each new album.<\/p>\n<p>On past records, Carll has operated in aggro-honky-tonk, stark-balladeer and droll-strummer modes. Anchored by a proudly springy banjo and a hardwood-floor drum, \u201cWhat It Is\u201d injects a hint of <em>Sweetheart of the Rodeo\u00a0<\/em>pluck into the mix. Even though it\u2019s been over 50 years after the Byrds\u2019 milestone rock-meets-Nashville project, the result is still a record that sounds both retro and garden-fresh. Carll\u2019s delivery never quite rises above a combination of wariness and weariness, but the vibrant arrangement stays the course and refuses to let him get more discouraged. A buoyant old-timer instrument and a dose of cautious optimism will do that to a person.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/hayes-carll-what-it-is-782311\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You hardly expect a guy who\u2019s written songs with titles like \u201cBad Liver and a Broken Heart\u201d and \u201cGood While It Lasted\u201d to go all giddy on you. But everybody has a moment when they realize something cherished is over, yet there\u2019s no choice but to move on. For roustabout-looking Texas troubadour Hayes Carll, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-481349","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:30:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}