Single review: PARKER BARROW – Nothin’ Left To Save

I do like music with attitude, and this single earns a big five stars from me, for its attitude, for its grit, for its musicianship, for its utter rock n rollness I’ve said Parker Barrow are going places since last year when their EP Hold The Mash dropped. Planet Rock just placed this single on their main playlist this week, and yours truly has had it on heavy rotation since first hearing it.

It hits you with what can only be described as a classic riff. It’s kinda Jimmy Page meets Joe Perry on the way to a Lynyrd Skynyrd gig. It’s infectious immediately, then Dylan wacks those drums like he’s afraid someone might take them away, and then the vocal hits.

Megan Kane, the owner of such a unique voice. Her phrasing is just unreal, it gives me goosebumps, and the range and power. She says she went out of her comfort zone with this song, I’m glad she did, I mean, like, her comfort zone would put almost anybody else in the shade, to go out of it! Man she is in the stratosphere.

The song, written by Dylan Turner and Alex Bender is about being on the road and the unforgiving toll it takes on anybody, not a new story but a new angle on the story, delivered so well by this outstanding band.

They have all the ingredients – two great guitarists, who do love to duel with each other, a powerhouse drummer interlocking with the bass player, and a ballsy keyboard player who throws his organ around like a rodeo cowboy wrestling with a young steer, and did I mention the vocals?

They look like a great rock n roll band too, their image lures you in as well as the music. That these six people met each other out of the millions of people in the world is pure magic, like any special band. And this latest single is pure magic too.

I wait in anticipation of their forthcoming highly anticipated second album, Hold The Mash. Parker Barrow are also doing some UK dates in July, in some intimate clubs. Try to get to see them, they won’t be in these clubs for long methinks. *****

Review by Andy Sharrocks

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