{"id":37743,"date":"2017-06-09T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T15:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=fdb66830ba14f6783805d4fbb16fe92c"},"modified":"2017-06-09T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-09T15:12:00","slug":"smokin-room-by-lawanda-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2017\/06\/09\/smokin-room-by-lawanda-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Smokin&#8217; Room by LaWanda Lee"},"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\/79\/79645\/tmb_150x150_79645_236690.jpg\" title=\"LaWanda Lee\" alt=\"LaWanda Lee\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/LaWandaLee\">LaWanda Lee<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=53433&#038;mediaID=635335\">Smokin&#8217; Room<\/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>Really posh sound here with a smooth groove that&#8217;s totally in the pocket with strategic dropouts and builds where it suits the song perfectly.  Really strong vocal performance with a great gospel feel in the backups.  Killer bass &#038; drum work and elegant key &#038; string work.  Nice staging the way the drums go to a next level on the turnaround after the first verse.  This could be Jill Scott leaning toward the Gospel side.  Nice work!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The vocals aren&#8217;t quite as rich in sound as they should be&#8211;it sounds like some of the mids were squeezed out?  I&#8217;d like the lead vocal a bit higher in the mix and maybe duck the instruments more when singing?<\/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\/79\/79645\/tmb_150x150_79645_236690.jpg\" title=\"LaWanda Lee\" alt=\"LaWanda Lee\"><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/LaWandaLee\">LaWanda Lee<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=53433&amp;mediaID=635335\">Smokin&#8217; Room<\/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>Really posh sound here with a smooth groove that&#8217;s totally in the pocket with strategic dropouts and builds where it suits the song perfectly.  Really strong vocal performance with a great gospel feel in the backups.  Killer bass &amp; drum work and elegant key &amp; string work.  Nice staging the way the drums go to a next level on the turnaround after the first verse.  This could be Jill Scott leaning toward the Gospel side.  Nice work!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The vocals aren&#8217;t quite as rich in sound as they should be&#8211;it sounds like some of the mids were squeezed out?  I&#8217;d like the lead vocal a bit higher in the mix and maybe duck the instruments more when singing?<\/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-37743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743","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=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37744,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions\/37744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}