JUDGE

RATING

COMMENTS

01-Michael Spencer

7.27

Love the lyrics, very original, now if you could get hazelglow to sing it, you have a hit!

03-David Tallent

6.75

Lyrics sort of vague and go nowhere. Vocal delivery strained in a few places trying to establish a mood that never gels. Nice guitar work.

04-Nancy G. Brundrett

8.5

This is a catchy tune. It caught my interest as a listener right away. You have some great lines. It reminds me of the Texas Music sound that is getting very popular down here. I also hear a Neil Young sound in this song which is good because I love Neil Young's music.

05-Harry Francis

6.5

comments: First thought...vocal control needs a little work when you are singing. After awhile, the Bob Dylan style vocals get to be a little too much. The style of the song is different and kinda cool though.

06-Jim Gietzen (JimmyZ)

5.5

Critique: The quality of the recording was hard to listen to (may have been my computer). Sounds
like a fun bar song (3 beer song). Its great that your having
fun.

07-Michael Flanagan (Hazelglow)

5.75

Quite a few distracting bells and whistles here and there...which only deter, not add. I guess y'all are having a bit of fun or something over there; but it doesn't quite work as I sit in front of my computer listening! Main vocal is quite off-key, which irritates somewhat. Good instrumentation which sets a very appropriate feel for the song; good upbeat vibe. However, I was getting a bit sick of the "rollin' towards freedom" by the end, especially when the word 'towards' doesn't actually fit. This song needs to do more of something different to hold my interest.

09-Mikhail Pesok (Sand)

Pleasant optimistic song with some satiric elements, bluesy/country feel. The best about this song is the guitar solo, in my opinion. The intonations of the voice suggest some humorous content, which is not there. This song should be hilarious according to the music and mannerisms and it's not. I would avoid the overused word "freedom" (has a very patriotic meaning these days), unless you're making a nice joke out of it in your lyrics. "Hating your job and spouse, getting on the road" - is a great, relatively original theme for a song, especially a mainstream song, but you bluntly state the point up front.

I would make an "American Beauty"-meets-"About Schmidt" kinda song out of it, but it has to have ingenious lyrics, very well thought-out, funny and sad at the same time - an elegant mix of tragic and comic elements.

10-Bobby Caputo (Bobbio)

6.8

Spike Jones effects made it feel like it was gonna be funnier than it was....but, humor is hard to do....
Rolling toward freedom?...sounds like you're already free....how about "rolling in freedom"...nice idea..

12-Markus Lorber

4.5

You ment this one as joke and I have to confess I didn't get it. But that's my fault.

13-Doogle

okay this is too good for this contest, so I'm assuming this is some kind of 'in' joke or someone trying to stir things up.

15-Painter

8

Has a cool rambling-folk ideal. Maybe a little too loose though- too wild. But I love the confidence in vocals and storytelling! I can hear that your essense is of someone whohas great character- and you don't needs to "overdue it" with recording sounds and such. Keep the faith-be real. I dig it and thinks it's really