{"id":9512,"date":"2014-09-30T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=9512"},"modified":"2014-09-30T13:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T13:53:45","slug":"blake-berglund-the-vultures-jasper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2014\/09\/30\/blake-berglund-the-vultures-jasper\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Berglund &#038; the Vultures &#8211; Jasper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2014\/09\/30\/blake-berglund-the-vultures-jasper\/bb-front3-640x627\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9513\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9513\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/BB-front3-640x627-300x293.jpg\" alt=\"BB-front3-640x627\" width=\"300\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jasper, Alberta is not only home to some of the most stunning landscapes in the country, but also one of the best venues to see live roots acts as well.<!--more--> So it\u2019s fitting that Saskatchewan\u2019s Blake Berglund picked the Jasper Legion to record a live record with his band the Vultures. Berglund is an honest to goodness country &amp; western singer, the Vultures are a gritty, hot-shot country band, and the rowdy crowd at the Legion clearly dug their down and dirty ditties and the occasional tear-in-the-beer heartbreaker the boys serve up so well. Made up of songs Berglund and the boys have been playing for years, as well as a few new cuts thrown in for good measure, <i>Jasper<\/i> is a great snapshot of a country artists on the rise. From the boot-scootin\u2019 boogie-woogie of \u201cHangin\u2019 By a Thread\u201d to the too-tough-to-cry \u201cFunny Thing About Leaving You\u201d to the gut-bustin\u2019 greasy good times of \u201cLove is Like a Rodeo,\u201d the boys don\u2019t let up, delivering track after track of good old-fashioned, true faded denim blue country music. If that sounds up your alley, forget about Dan Romano, because Blake Berglund is the real deal. (Independent, <a href=\"http:\/\/blakeberglund.com\" target=\"_blank\">blakeberglund.com<\/a>)<strong> <b>Sheldon Birnie<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jasper, Alberta is not only home to some of the most stunning landscapes in the country, but also one of the best venues to see live roots acts as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[817,831],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-root-cellar","tag-saskatchewan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}