Artist of the Week

Artist - NewWorldSon
Album - Salvation Station
Song - Salvation Station

Music is something that can make you move in mainly two different ways. You can move to the beat and do a little headbob and tap your feet, or you can move, and I mean really MOVE. You find yourself dancing all over the place and using every extremity to move with the beat. Every now and then there comes a band that will take over every muscle in your body and make you move and truly get jiggy with it. This week’s spotlight is on a band that makes you move, NewWorldSon. Their style of music is soul music, and if soul music can’t get you moving, then something is wrong with you. These four guys are talented musicians, and you know that they are going to be good just by looking at them. Anytime a bassist uses an upright, you know that there is going to be some good rhythm to the music. Their song Workin’ Man is a fun upbeat song that makes you want to get up and dance. The song that I am focusing on is called Salvation Station. Here is what lead singer Joel Parisien has to say about the song, "This is my response to Curtis Mayfield’s lyric: ‘People get ready, there’s a train comin’. You don’t need no baggage, you just get on board.’ I thought, well, if I don’t need any baggage, then you don’t even need to slow down, I’ll just hop on!"
If you click on artist of the week, you will find a video of this song. Now, I will tell you in advance that the video is about 10 minutes long, and they spend half the time jamming away and are accompanied by Chops Horns (famous horn section accompaniment for Alicia Keyes, The Police, Funkadelics, and the Rolling Stones). Somewhere in the video between 6 and 7 minutes Joel starts jamming on a kazoo, and it sounds good. So you know he is talented. I give these guys 5 out of 5 dundies on lyrical content. They don’t have much variation, but when you take the style of music into consideration, they do a wonderful job lyrically. I give them 6 out of 5 dundies on musical style and talent. Like I said before, these guys are extremely talented and they just make me want to dance like a fool.
Here are the lyrics, and please check out the video.
Enjoy!!

There’s a train leaving from Calvary and it’s goin’ to salvation station
There’s a train leaving from Calvary and it’s goin’ to salvation station

I’m gonna jump that train I’m gonna jump that train
I’m gonna jump that train oh Lordy I
I’m gonna jump that train I’m gonna jump that train
And we gonna reach salvation station in the sky
Gonna leave sin city leave it all behind
‘Cuz where we goin’ they don’t take that kind
Gonna leave sin city leave it all behind
‘Cuz where we goin’ they don’t take that kind

Can you hear that whistle blowin’
And can you see that black coal smoke?
Can you hear that ole whistle blowin’
Salvation station, that’s where we goin’