Month: August 2016

Broadjam Artist: Randal Dunkle
Song: Thought you were an angel

Reviewer: Tim Ely

Positive Comments: Nice Tom Petty kinda vibe. Like the raspy quality in the vocal.

Constructive Comments: Lyrics not quite original and inventive enough, need to dig deeper for more interesting ideas.

Broadjam Artist: Chet Nichols
Song: Twenty Years Ago (Instrumental)

Reviewer: Tim Ely

Positive Comments: Top-notch recording quality, really strong, professional players.

Constructive Comments: Sounds a bit more POP than country music-wise. Maybe if I heard the lyrics it would ring more true towards country.

Broadjam Artist: Jon Babb
Song: For My Queen

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: God I wish I had sounds like this. Beautiful.

Constructive Comments: None to add. It’s a lovely piece of music.

Broadjam Artist: Bob Higgs
Song: Pretenderman

Reviewer: The Song Writers

Positive Comments: Great record! I love the story line. Nice job. Fun stuff really pop pin’

Constructive Comments: No Sir, you rock and roll. Love this record.

Broadjam Artist: Jon Babb
Song: A Noble Girl

Reviewer: The Song Writers

Positive Comments: Simple and beautiful. Elligant and classy. With a bit of reflective imagination and suspense places one in a state of meditation. It’s a wonderful and magical piece of art.

Constructive Comments: Nothing to say about it except I’d like to hear more.

Broadjam Artist: Uncle Spider & The Electric Dirt Clods
Song: If You’d Just Look My Way/ Country

Reviewer: amy abernathy

Positive Comments: It’s hard to crituqe without lyrics. It was nice peaceful melody.

Constructive Comments: It needed a little more instrumentation, but this might just be a demo tape.

Broadjam Artist: Bob Higgs
Song: Pretenderman

Reviewer: Christopher Ernest Severn

Positive Comments: The rhythm reminds me of JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP, the Authority song. This song could work well in an “Oceans Eleven” / gambling/ risk taking type movie. Good market potential. Well recorded I could hear everything well. I liked the sound of the guitar (12 string?. Nice chord progressions.

Constructive Comments: I would have the sound build by having only one the instruments playing at the beginning with vocals and then adding an instrument in each verse, so that by the end all the instruments are playing. Nice work.

Broadjam Artist: Jeff Roberts
Song: Living in the Trees

Reviewer: Christopher Ernest Severn

Positive Comments: I got into it right away. Strong classic sound. Beautiful instrumentation. “I’m livin’ in the trees” is original. Might be good in a Tarzan movie. “Has a great beat and you can dance to it” as they used to say on American Band Stand. Definitely, I would like to hear more songs from you. It reminded me of The Cars a little doing their song “Just what I Needed”.

Constructive Comments: The hook was OK, but I’m not sure what “livin in the trees” means. I did not really care for the lyrics, but I loved the melody and arrangement. It was a smooth vocal, like the Association singing Windy, but I think it needed to be more edgy for rock. Like Sunshine Superman by Donovan. Personally, I would start over with the lyric. Choose something you care about.

Broadjam Artist: Randy Calligan
Song: Movie Theme 2

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Lovely piano tone on this. Gorgeous chord at 1.38 with the strings washing over the rest of the music. Very nice.

Constructive Comments: When reviewing music like this I have to remind myself of the intended application. Hence the build ups and break downs. No constructive comments to make.

Broadjam Artist: Geraint Hughes
Song: BARRY ISLAND

Reviewer: Nigel Barrett

Positive Comments: Reminded me a bit of the Bond theme song done by the band Garbage. Great mix. Nice choice of instruments too. Loved that little piano run at 1.58………….in fact it has elements of stuff produced by the ZZT record label by bands such as Propaganda, Frankie Goes to Hollywood etc…..

Constructive Comments: None to add. Kept my interest throughout.