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
  2. New Train
  3. Jet Airliner
  4. Wait On What You Want
  5. Venutian Lady
  6. Cosmic Mirror
  7. Let's Move And Groove Together
  8. Indian Boy
  9. A Bit Of All Right
  10. Taking Your Love Down

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Music Review: It Took 27 Years, But the Train is Finally Here
Rating: 5 Stars

This album works on several levels. First of all, it's a tribute to a talented and neglected artist. Who knows what would have happened had this album been released right after it had been recorded. It might have made Paul Pena a household name or it might have quickly disappeared, like so many fine albums.

Secondly, this album serves as a time capsule of what was going on musically in the early 1970's. It's a synthesis of several musical genres. One can hear a marvelous blend of rock, country, reggae, blues and R&B throughout the album.

The ten track CD gets off to a fine start with "Gonna Move." This soulful number (with wonderful background vocals by the Persuasions) will have you snapping your feet and/or tapping your toes in no time. It has a wonderful loose feeling like a jam session that is so refreshing to hear. The title track follows and keeps a nice pace going. Pena's rocking pre-Steve Miller version of "Jet Airliner" quickens the pace a bit. "Wait on What You Want" then takes the listener into a more psychedelic mode.

Things mellow slightly with "Venutian Lady," then move back into the psychedelic mode with "Cosmic Mirror," before settling down into "Let's Move and Groove Together." The latter is a cover of Johnny Nash's Number 4 R&B hit of 1965. It's one of only two songs on the album not entirely written by Pena.

"Indian Boy" follows in fine form followed by "A Bit of All Right." In the latter reggae influenced song, one gets to experience Pena's piano playing (he sings and plays guitar on all tracks).

The set closes with the country flavored "Taking Your Love Down" (a/k/a "Bringing My Love Down"). It'll make you want to tap your feet also. At just under three minutes, it's the shortest track on the CD. It leaves you wanting more.

Pena is a gifted vocalist with a warm, somewhat raspy tone. His singing possesses a feeling of emotion so rarely heard in contemporary popular music. Also, he's a fine songwriter with lyrics that stay with you. As a footnote, both "Venutian Lady" and "New Train" feature Jerry Garcia on steel guitar.

In short, NEW TRAIN is a CD for people who like music. Not homogenized pop fodder, but music with texture, feeling and depth. The kind of music that was heard everyday in the 1970's. In other words, real music played by real musicians.

Hopefully, there won't be as long a wait for Pena's next album. In the meantime, check him out in the very entertaining documentary, GENGHIS BLUES.

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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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