New Train

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New Train
New Train cover
Studio album by Paul Pena
Released September 26, 2000
Recorded December, 1973
Genre Rock/Soul/Folk Rock
Length 44:05
Label Hybrid Recordings
Producer Ben Sidran
Professional reviews
Paul Pena chronology
Paul Pena
(1971)		 New Train
(1973)

New Train is an album by Paul Pena, recorded in 1973 and released in 2000. The album was recorded at Bearsville Records and produced by Ben Sidran (keyboardist for the Steve Miller Band).

New Train features Grateful Dead member Jerry Garcia playing pedal steel guitar on "Venutian Lady" and "Taking Your Love Down." Merl Saunders (frequent collaborator with Garcia and the Dead) plays keyboards on "Venutian Lady" and "New Train". A capella group The Persuasions sing on "Gonna Move" and "Let's Move and Groove." [3]

Stylistically, the album runs the gamut from straight-up rock and roll (on the original version of "Jet Airliner") to folk to acid rock (on the Jimi Hendrix-esque "Cosmic Mirror") to Rhythm and Blues on the standout track "Gonna Move". The Grateful Dead-inspired "Venutian Lady" echoes their hit "Bertha".

Albert Grossman, owner of Bearsville Records, stopped release of the record after a dispute with Pena.

Ben Sidran gave an unreleased copy of New Train to musician Steve Miller, who recorded Pena's "Jet Airliner" with the Steve Miller Band for the 1977 album Book of Dreams. The "Jet Airliner" single went to #8 on the charts. Pena's primary source of income in his later years were royalties from that single.

The album remained unreleased for 27 years. After years of unsuccessul attempts, Pena's attorney Jon Waxman (and original executive producer on the album) arranged the album's release in 2000 on the New York record label Hybrid Recordings [4]

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Gonna Move" (Pena) – 4:31
  2. "New Train" (Pena) – 4:53
  3. "Jet Airliner" (Pena) – 5:42
  4. "Wait On What You Want" (Pena) – 3:28
  5. "Venutian Lady" (Pena) – 4:43
  6. "Cosmic Mirror" (Pena) – 5:23
  7. "Let's Move And Groove Together (Johnny Nash) – 4:13
  8. "Indian Boy" (Pena) – 4:37
  9. "A Bit Of All Right" (Pena) – 3:43
  10. "Taking Your Love Down" (Pena) – 2:52

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Special guests

  • Jerry Garcia - pedal steel guitar on "Venutian Lady" and "New Train"
  • Merl Saunders - keyboards on "Venutian Lady" and "New Train"
  • The Persuasions - background vocals on "Gonna Move"
  • Charles Greene - background vocals on "Let's Move and Groove Together"
  • Arthur Adams - guitar on "A Bit of All Right"
  • Dave Woodward - saxophone on "Cosmic Mirror"
  • Nick DeCaro - arranged strings
  • The Funky ladies - additional background vocals

[edit] Production

  • Producer: Ben Sidran
  • Executive Producers: Jon M. Waxman and Gunther Weil
  • Engineers: Adam Taylor and Bruce Botnick
  • Mixing: Ben Sidran and Marty Feldman
  • Mastering: George Marino
  • Liner Notes: Ben Sidran
  • Slipcase photograph: Jennifer Cheek Pantaleon
  • Recorded at Intermedia in Boston and Wally Heider Studios in San Francisco