{"id":35552,"date":"2017-03-14T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=e2a8f72bbe02c7f6b7414cc24c86b245"},"modified":"2017-03-14T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:05:00","slug":"riding-free-by-jeff-ashbaker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/03\/14\/riding-free-by-jeff-ashbaker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Riding Free by Jeff Ashbaker"},"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\/24\/24422\/tmb_150x150_24422_164611.jpg\" title=\"Jeff Ashbaker\" alt=\"Jeff Ashbaker\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/jeffashbaker\">Jeff Ashbaker<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=13896&#038;mediaID=88412\">Riding Free<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=115880\">The Bitter Elegance<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>I really like the traditional country feel, with the contemporary mix. The guitarist has some crazy cool licks. It is very fresh to her a song structure that is more AABA than the usual verse\/chorus\/verse\/chorus that seems to be the only thing on current country radio these days. The band is super tight (if this is a studio creation, nice job on it feeling like a real band).<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>While I really enjoy the song structure and feel of this track, I felt that there never was a giant hook to take me over the edge. Nothing on here is weak, but as strong as the performance and vocalist are, I really thought that there could have been a giant lyrical and melodic lift (maybe on the tag) to stick in my head and be the alpha hook of the day.All in all, VERY nice work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Jeff AshbakerSong: Riding FreeReviewer: The Bitter ElegancePositive Comments: I really like the traditional country feel, with the contemporary mix. The guitarist has some crazy cool licks. It is very fresh to her a song structure that&#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-35552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552","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=35552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35553,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35552\/revisions\/35553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}