{"id":544,"date":"2019-09-24T19:47:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2019-09-24T19:47:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T19:47:14","slug":"two-br-songs-chart-in-great-american-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Two BR songs chart in Great American Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"990\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YQhvPYEthG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Great American Song Contest Top 5 Winner in Country Category (2018)<br><br>by Bryan Russo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Russo\u2019s big bluesy voice wallops audiences with soulful lyrics that bite, but listeners and audiences have always been drawn to the depth in his lyrics, the hopefulness in the blues, and the way he can make a thinking song sound like a drinking song by blending smarts with satire.\u00a0 Russo\u2019s song \u201cRodeo Cool\u201d, which was released on the \u201cPennsyltucky\u201d album was named as a top 5 finalist (out of more than 2000 domestic and international entries) in the \u2018Country\u2019 category of the 2019 <strong>Great American Song Contest<\/strong>, while his song from the same album \u201cUnfinished Symphony\u201d received honorable mention in the Folk\/Americana category. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greatamericansong.com\/winners.php\">https:\/\/www.greatamericansong.com\/winners.php<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Winner150.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-546\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"137\" height=\"109\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Finalist150-wt-sm-sharp.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-545\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russo\u2019s big bluesy voice wallops audiences with soulful lyrics that bite, but listeners and audiences have always been drawn to the depth in his lyrics, the hopefulness in the blues,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/?p=544\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two BR songs chart in Great American Song Contest<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bryanrusso.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}