{"id":75985,"date":"2020-10-04T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=57c5704c91d72fa5bedcb6d698efa76a"},"modified":"2020-10-04T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:43:00","slug":"first-date-blues-by-jeff-ashbaker-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2020\/10\/04\/first-date-blues-by-jeff-ashbaker-13\/","title":{"rendered":"First Date Blues by Jeff Ashbaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ck8ztij7t71z.cloudfront.net\/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=88763\">First Date Blues<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=24409\">Kate Carpenter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>Amazing!  The first date blues.  Never heard a song written about this topic (and probably don&#8217;t want to hear any more, because this one was SO GOOD!)  Packed with humor and reality, the song effectively conveys the nervous feelings preceding that first date.  Great rhymes (rejection\/protection) and word pictures (coat of armor, heart of stone).  Instrumentation is excellent.  Classic blues style.  Easy to follow where he&#8217;s going until the stellar surprise ending, which I found to be highly original and funny. Ok, let&#8217;s just call it our second date.  That was a fantastic way to end the song!<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>The only thing I had a little trouble with (which was resolved). When I listened to the first chorus I could not discern whether it was the first aid blues, first day blues, or first date blues. Of course, I figured it out, but work on clarity in diction.  Otherwise wow, this is just an amazing song and I would definitely like to hear more of your work!  Mrs. Kate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Jeff AshbakerSong: First Date BluesReviewer: Kate CarpenterPositive Comments: Amazing!  The first date blues.  Never heard a song written about this topic (and probably don&#8217;t want to hear any more, because this one was SO GOOD!)  Packe&#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-75985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75985","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=75985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75986,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75985\/revisions\/75986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}