{"id":397,"date":"2009-03-13T00:24:18","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T07:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=397"},"modified":"2011-03-16T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T16:48:50","slug":"homeboys-by-adam-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/homeboys-by-adam-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeboys by Adam Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-451\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2009\/03\/homeboys.jpg\" alt=\"homeboys\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>ADAM AGAIN<br \/> HOMEBOYS<\/strong><br \/> 1990 Broken Records<br \/> Review by: Steve Ruff<\/p>\n<p>This is one of my favorite records that Adam Again did. With each release these guys grew as a band and you can hear the depth come through on every release. Again, for me, Gene&#8217;s lyrics were always genius.  The songs that he chose to cover really conveyed a message and a theme that one typically did not hear anyone else tackling in the Christian scene at the time. The cover of Marvin Gaye&#8217;s &#8220;Inner City Blues&#8221; is amazing. &#8220;Homeboys,&#8221; the title track, is a reflection of Gene&#8217;s youth and where he grew up, but there is also a undercurrent that always speaks to me of racial equality in that song. &#8220;Bad News on the Radio&#8221; is one of the most descriptive stories that conveys emotion and really drives it home to the listener\u2026 I have always thought that track was unparalleled. Riki Michele, Steve Hindalong and Terry Taylor also contributed lyrics here, as well as the band welcoming Jon Knox on the drums. &#8220;This Band Is Our House&#8221; speaks to the cohesiveness of the band and how they were a family&#8230; &#8220;No Regrets&#8221; is really haunting at this point, a very final and sad way to close out the record. Musically the band sounds very tight and together. Dan Michael&#8217;s sax playing was always so unique to the band, and gave them a flavor unlike any other groups that were out there. All in all, one of the best releases (in my opinion), and a sort of guide for the direction that the band was heading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADAM AGAIN HOMEBOYS 1990 Broken Records Review by: Steve Ruff This is one of my favorite records that Adam Again did. With each release these guys grew as a band and you can hear the depth come through on every &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/homeboys-by-adam-again\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,24],"tags":[28,116],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gene-eugene-tribute","category-music-review","tag-adam-again","tag-broken-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}