Broadjam Artist: Charles Edmund Carter
Song: Folsom
Broadjam Pro Reviewer:
Nikki Hornsby (Songwriter, Artist, Producer, Arranger)
Pro General Comments: As a great technique to gain interest I am REALLY impressed with that choice of "I got a cot" first line. Needless to say, I went to the lyric page immediately and that was great to read along as I try to do after first pass on listening. Truly I hear a swinging 4/4 number but with this vocal here it's more country. To make it more rock classic you might change the vocalist but if you are shopping it then curious to who you see recording it as it's a uniquely good Charles Edmund Carter (CEC) song as it is now. The production is good. So as I am left to ask you what is your goal for this song you & your Publisher sees? I know in my opinion only that it swings and the feel isn't Rock as much as Country. Try a harder guitar lead player on the break screaming as rock guitarist may provide. A few instrumental arrangements might change from the country swing to a classic Rock but then you'd possibly loose a little in how it leaves the listener with this song as it is now. That is your creative choice as "Folsom" title always takes those who knows old country to Johnny Cash but I think he'd not do it as well as CEC. So therefore, I've got to put it into the Country Swing Genre but if you listen to Rock Classic numbers instrumentation and the vocalists that released them you might agree. I do like this tempo and its production here as I hear little to point negatively towards. Time of the song is good for allowing commercials for a paid program airtime and then some of the listeners to place in their downloads too. Bravo!
Quote From Pro: This swing up tempo song is fun to listen in its up tempo feeling about a prison stay. I guess as your title is Folsom. WOW but I clicked to hear your submission on my first pass and ... Seriously ... I had to read the first line of your lyrics as it comes across differently in my ear today but maybe just be my mind at the time but as an attention grabber it works! Maybe getting the genre into maybe a Pop Swing Country might fit the bill but it's one of your originals that can be listened to repeatedly leaving a let's repeat this again on the playlist. I look forward to hearing and reviewing for Broadjam Pro Song reviews a few MORE of your songs. I think your work is getting better each one I review. Thank you for "Folsom" as it's not a lonesome prison blues at all from your descriptive lyrics and music.