{"id":1249,"date":"2016-07-13T15:40:13","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=d276c12a470dfd878ce14101cef0dd0b"},"modified":"2016-07-13T15:40:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T20:40:13","slug":"far-from-home-by-b-greg-colburn-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2016\/07\/13\/far-from-home-by-b-greg-colburn-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"Far From Home by B. Greg Colburn Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/42\/42792\/tmb_150x150_42792_266968.jpg\" title=\"B. Greg Colburn Jr.\" alt=\"B. Greg Colburn Jr.\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/gregcolburn\">B. Greg Colburn Jr.<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=25867&#038;mediaID=688709\">Far From Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Gorgeous guitar intro!  And the vocal performance is just as good.  Both have superb engineering.  What a great vocal performance and voice.  You&#8217;ve got a tremendous mood and evocative lyrics going.  Think of what Sturgill Simpson would do with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;d skip the second phase of the guitar intro where it gets busier.  It makes it too long and you don&#8217;t want to introduce too much side theme.  Overall I&#8217;d back off the busy guitar work and focus on chords &#038; strumming to allow the song to prevail (of course your picking is very good). &#8220;come alive&#8221; the melody\/phrasing\/singing drops off a bit.  I&#8217;d rework that to make it stronger.  same with that phrase after &#8220;the place is gone&#8221;.  I think you need a bridge and a chorus sections in G to bring a big lift, using harmony vocals and a female voice in the harmony.  This is a fantastic start. I&#8217;d like to provide the chorus &#038; bridge parts if you&#8217;re interested.  Actually I&#8217;d like to produce and arrange another version of this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/usrimgs.broadjam.com\/42\/42792\/tmb_150x150_42792_266968.jpg\" title=\"B. Greg Colburn Jr.\" alt=\"B. Greg Colburn Jr.\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/gregcolburn\">B. Greg Colburn Jr.<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=25867&amp;mediaID=688709\">Far From Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=80582\">Jeff Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Gorgeous guitar intro!  And the vocal performance is just as good.  Both have superb engineering.  What a great vocal performance and voice.  You&#8217;ve got a tremendous mood and evocative lyrics going.  Think of what Sturgill Simpson would do with this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>I&#8217;d skip the second phase of the guitar intro where it gets busier.  It makes it too long and you don&#8217;t want to introduce too much side theme.  Overall I&#8217;d back off the busy guitar work and focus on chords &amp; strumming to allow the song to prevail (of course your picking is very good). &#8220;come alive&#8221; the melody\/phrasing\/singing drops off a bit.  I&#8217;d rework that to make it stronger.  same with that phrase after &#8220;the place is gone&#8221;.  I think you need a bridge and a chorus sections in G to bring a big lift, using harmony vocals and a female voice in the harmony.  This is a fantastic start. I&#8217;d like to provide the chorus &amp; bridge parts if you&#8217;re interested.  Actually I&#8217;d like to produce and arrange another version of this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1250,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1249\/revisions\/1250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}