Soul Parade

Jesse Denatale | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (July 11, 2006)
• Original Release Date: July 11, 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Jackpine Social Club
• ASIN: B000FKO3PS
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #130,269 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #87 in Music > Alternative Rock > New Wave & Post-Punk > Urban Folk

Track Listings

1. Children of the Sun

2. Shine Your Light

3. Dreamer's Holiday

4. Montgomery St.

5. Nightingale

6. Keep on Walkin

7. The Bell

8. Soul Parade

9. Carry Me

10. Baby Joe

11. Lucinda

12. The Follies of Don Calandro

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It does not get any better than this, October 10, 2006

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Stenie M. Di Sospiro "Guido Mina di Sospiro" (DC Area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul Parade (Audio CD)

"Soul Parade" takes Jesse DeNatale's journey into interstellar overdrive. Don't get me wrong: "Shangri-La West" is truly great, but "Soul Parade" defies superlatives. The legendary guitarist Andres Segovia wrote: "A song on a piano is a discourse; on a cello, an elegy; on a guitar, a song is just a song." In "Soul Parade" the piano dominates, as if the troubadour, having found a welcoming court, could stop traveling and give a rest to his portable instrument. Why, in this splendid court a grand piano is put at his disposal. So the troubadour atypically sits down, and no longer writes songs, but... discourses. Yet he is made of such golden stuff, he is so pure at heart, his "discourses" are not pompous, or boring. Just more profound and resonant, but as moving as ever, more than ever, perhpas. For that is the point: DeNatale's songs can be happy or sad, funny or haunting, but always involving. Listening to his songs is a participatory experience for the audience: they move us. And there lies the difference: there is so much soul in them, it spills over into the audience. This is a work of genius and compassion at the same time.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Something Clever, November 16, 2006

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Thomas R. Hodges "martha promise" (Peoria, IL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul Parade (Audio CD)

Soul Parade is an incredible album of imemense depth and will be enjoyed by anyone who loves music. Shangri la West is fecking rad as well.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shining Really Bright, October 2, 2006

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Jerry L. Withrow (Elizabethtown, North Carolina United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Soul Parade (Audio CD)

This is more a note of appreciation than a review. I find myself returning to this CD again and again as a paliative to the pain my country seems wedded to at present. The phrase may have lost some of its power from sentimental abuse, but I'll still insist this is a "life-affirming" work of the first order. It dances and whirls, roughly breathing one man's vision of America's streets, and my goodness... he's smiling! I'll venture that you will too as you're caught in these twelve carny spells - cast as shrewd witchery of the Waits/Springsteen order - yet identifiably now, the welcome voice of Jesse De Natale. Thanks.... now everybody dive in.