{"id":10430,"date":"2015-03-18T06:56:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T13:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=10430"},"modified":"2015-03-16T10:58:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:58:20","slug":"new-music-revue-jesse-ropers-red-bird-misses-the-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2015\/03\/18\/new-music-revue-jesse-ropers-red-bird-misses-the-mark\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Jesse Roper’s Red Bird<\/em> misses the mark"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jesse Roper
\nRed Bird
\n<\/i>(Warner\/Blue Heron Music)
\n1\/5<\/p>\n

Despite Victoria songwriter Jesse Roper\u2019s obvious instrumental and vocal talent, his self-indulgent music on Red Bird<\/i> reminds me of a cover band you might find at a backyard BBQ celebrating an over-the-hill birthday.<\/p>\n

Red Bird<\/i> starts off with a folk sound, moves into a soft-rock lull, briefly falls into a ska-esque intermission (honestly, the better part of the album), then Roper gets lost in a love-song lullaby fit to make ears bleed.<\/p>\n

Maybe he should stick with the not-quite-Rush sound, as it makes more sense than this eclectic playlist of an album, especially \u201cThe Good Life,\u201d which, oddly, mimicked the Seinfeld theme song.<\/p>\n

It feels like Roper is simply showing us a portfolio of what he is capable of as an artist. Unfortunately, it is highly unlikely that he will gain any new fans with Red Bird<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I would be curious to see a live performance by Mr. Roper because Red Bird<\/i> isn\u2019t living up to the recognition he has received as a Victoria artist.<\/p>\n

Better luck next time, bud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jesse Roper Red Bird (Warner\/Blue Heron Music) 1\/5 Despite Victoria songwriter Jesse Roper\u2019s obvious instrumental and vocal talent, his self-indulgent music on Red Bird reminds me of a cover band you might find at a backyard BBQ celebrating an over-the-hill birthday. Red Bird starts off with a folk sound, moves into a soft-rock lull, briefly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-march-18-2015"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10432,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10430\/revisions\/10432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}