{"id":3768,"date":"2023-07-10T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/?p=3768"},"modified":"2023-07-10T10:03:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:03:42","slug":"jj-and-the-hustlers-burned-on-the-grill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/?p=3768","title":{"rendered":"JJ and the Hustlers, Burned on the Grill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/degeneratepress.com\/vault\/2023\/jj-hustlers\/jj-hustlers-record-1200x1259.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We tried to catch JJ and the Hustlers at a recent gig at Boggs Social and Supply, only to arrive as they were loading out. However, we got to hang out with the band after, during which JJ asked if I would review their new album, <em>Burned on the Grill<\/em>. I\u2019d gotten a copy a while back and put it on top of my \u201cvinyl records to listen to\u201d heap and promptly stopped listening to vinyl for\u2026 entirely too long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hustler\u2019s previous record, <em>Favorite Places<\/em>, has some great tunes on it. I love it when <em>Bloody Mary Moustache<\/em> pops up on ye olde iPod shuffle. But that iPod is the reason I hadn\u2019t spun up a physical record in a while.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Burned on the Grill<\/em> should\u2019ve been on the turntable as soon as I got it home. Them honkies can tonk. Things kick off with <em>Office Job<\/em>, a Dylan-by-way-of-Woody-Guthrie working man&#8217;s blues lament about life in a windowless cube. Then comes some boogie with <em>Riverbend<\/em>, and the record gradually bends genres from there. Harmonica, fiddle and organ jump in beside a crunchy guitar that wouldn\u2019t be out of place on a 1970s, possibly Southern, rock record. A couple of tunes might even work in a set by JJ\u2019s (former?) hard rock group El Caminos, but most of the songs lean a bit more country. Fortunately, most of the tears shed crying in beer are at least sentimental, sometimes outright joyful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The production and mix are so clear that even on my cheap, portable record player it sounds great. You can also stream it on Spotify. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We tried to catch JJ and the Hustlers at a recent gig at Boggs Social and Supply, only to arrive as they were loading out. However, we got to hang out with the band after, during which JJ asked if I would review their new album, Burned on the Grill. I\u2019d gotten a copy a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3769,"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3768\/revisions\/3769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.degeneratepress.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}