{"id":763,"date":"2026-06-06T00:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T00:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/?p=763"},"modified":"2026-06-06T02:58:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T02:58:54","slug":"elisa-smith-i-shouldnt-drive-around-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/elisa-smith-i-shouldnt-drive-around-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisa Smith &#8211; I Shouldn&#8217;t Drive Around You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2H5nBcXkRc8onXJP9YiraO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Listen on Spotify<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Single<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Listening to Elisa Smith\u2019s single \u201cI Shouldn\u2019t Drink Around You,\u201d brought me hope that the future of Country music is in good hands. On first listen, the tune has a bit more rock \u2018n\u2019 roll feel than a modern-pop-country vibe. The song is gritty and saucy, a little tongue-in-cheek and definitely a crossover of&nbsp; multiple genres. After looking up her bio, it all made sense. She was spoon-fed gospel, 70s Rock, old-school country and a bit of bluegrass from an early age. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elisasmithmusic.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">her website <\/a>she is regarded as \u201cBoston\u2019s Honkey Tonk Queen.\u201d With this single, Elisa Smith has proven she is more than that, with shades of Peggy Lee and Heart sprinkled in.&nbsp; (Gina Tempesta)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen on Spotify\u00a0 Single Listening to Elisa Smith\u2019s single \u201cI Shouldn\u2019t Drink Around You,\u201d brought me hope that the future of Country music is in good hands. On first listen, the tune has a bit more rock \u2018n\u2019 roll feel than a modern-pop-country vibe. The song is gritty and saucy, a little tongue-in-cheek and definitely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reviews","tag-spring-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newenglandamericana.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}