{"id":54551,"date":"2018-09-30T18:18:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=18bd8ec91d4cf093d0db32c68ce7bbd7"},"modified":"2018-09-30T18:18:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T23:18:00","slug":"rise-above-the-blues-by-matt-mereu-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/30\/rise-above-the-blues-by-matt-mereu-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise Above the Blues by Matt Mereu"},"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\/80\/80120\/tmb_150x150_80120_186026.jpg\" title=\"Matt Mereu\" alt=\"Matt Mereu\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/mattmereu\">Matt Mereu<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=53794&#038;mediaID=712638\">Rise Above the Blues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=29480\">David James<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Firstly I like the swagger of the song. Great guitar chords and clever lead work. A strong vocalist who absolutely sells the song. I like the way the chorus provides release to the tension that verses build and that fits in well with the &#8216;open the dam&#8217; idea. Very well recorded. The song puts me in mind of the group Television particularly in respect of the vocal.   <\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>One thought, I was expecting a chord change on the word &#8216;mountain&#8217;. However in conclusion it&#8217;s a great rock song. Possibly worth pitching for appropriate film\/TV opportunities in my opinion.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Matt MereuSong: Rise Above the BluesReviewer: David JamesPositive Comments: Firstly I like the swagger of the song. Great guitar chords and clever lead work. A strong vocalist who absolutely sells the song. I like the way the chorus pr&#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-54551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54551","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=54551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54552,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54551\/revisions\/54552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}