New Train

Paul Pena - New Train

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Artist: Paul Pena
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-09-26
Music Label: Hybrid Recordings
Soundtracks:
  1. Gonna Move - Paul Pena, The Persuasions
  2. New Train - Jerry Garcia, Paul Pena, Merl Saunders
  3. Jet Airliner - Paul Pena
  4. Wait on What You Want - Paul Pena
  5. Venutian Lady - Jerry Garcia, Paul Pena, Merl Saunders
  6. Cosmic Mirror - Paul Pena, David Woodford
  7. Let's Move and Groove Together - Charles Greene, Paul Pena
  8. Indian Boy - Paul Pena
  9. Bit of All Right - Arthur Adams, Paul Pena
  10. Taking Your Love Down - Paul Pena

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Free Music Review: Classic
Hit: 5 Stars

You gotta hand it to Steve Miller. The cat was smart. Find some song by some unkown, oh, say "Jet Airliner," record it, and BOOM--you have a couple places in the Hamptons, Carmel, Paris, anywhere you want. And who can blame Steve--listen to his work now and it holds up better than most mainstreem 70s rock.

But, just between me and you, I'll trade you ten copies of Fly Like An Eagle for one bad CDR of New Train. Paui Pena was that songwriter who put Miller over the top, and don't worry, New Train has Paul's recording of "Jet Ariliner" right here for ya'

Here, "Jet Airliner" is slower, grittier, more earthy than Miller's version. Miller recorded the piece so uptempo, it became surefire rock single, and an excellent one. But you lost the sense of the down home, salt of the earth blues this song really is.

New Train is essentially a profane blues gospal disc. Pena used female singers and a top notch session crew featuring the great bassist Harvey Brooks. This music is immaculate but not slick. Think of Delaney and Bonnie or some of the Alman's more condenced work. Everything is perfect but not serile. It is just that you have master musicians set loose on country blues. That is what makes this music sooooooooooooooooooooooooo good.

Get this. Yesterday.

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Paul Pena should have been a star. Maybe he would have been if this album had been released in 1973, when it was recorded. Instead, it's taken 27 years for this brilliant collection of Pena's songwriting to see air. Well, except for two of its numbers: "Jet Airliner" was such a big hit for Steve Miller it sustained the blind singer-guitarist through the lean years, and "Gonna Move" has become a favorite of R&B bands. But the best tracks are numbers like "Let's Move and Groove Together," on which Pena makes like Marvin Gaye--his husky voice working the magic of eros. Or "Cosmic Mirror," which recalls nothing less than Hendrix's "Machine Gun," testifying to Pena's brawny-toned guitar virtuosity. (He also outplays Miller's version of "Jet Airliner" with Clapton-like bends and vibrato.) If spirituals and country are your bag, Pena captures a seeker's fervor in the title track's freedom prayer and turns "Venutian Lady" into a tripped-out reflection of hippie-era Nashville. The good news is that now Pena may get his shot. He's making a new album, and this time there will be no waiting. -- Ted Drozdowski

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