{"id":1320260,"date":"2020-05-29T10:13:43","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1821632"},"modified":"2020-05-29T10:13:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T16:13:43","slug":"so-this-was-midlands-most-seminal-country-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/so-this-was-midlands-most-seminal-country-album\/","title":{"rendered":"So This Was Midland\u2019s Most Seminal Country Album"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 1m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Dwight Yoakam released his debut album in 1986. And here we are now, 34 years later, still using it as some kind of guiding light for country music.<\/p>\n

At least, that\u2019s what Midland is doing.<\/p>\n

On Friday (May 29), the country trio announced the release of a five-song EP packed with their most well-loved songs done acoustically. And they\u2019ve named it Guitars, Couches, Etc., Etc.<\/em> as a tribute to Yoakam\u2019s similarly titled debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe title is a bit tongue in cheek with reference to a seminal album that largely influenced this band cut against the strange reality that we\u2019ve all found ourselves living these last few months,\u201d the band\u2019s frontman Mark Wystrach said in a press release. \u201cIt was medicinal to pick these songs back up and re-interpret them in a new way both recording wise and in the arrangements and colorings. We hope you enjoy these new iterations as much as we did making \u2019em.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Even Midland\u2019s name was inspired by Yoakam: it comes from a deep cut off his 13th album Population Me<\/em> from 2003.)<\/p>\n

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