Broadjam Artist: Chet Nichols
Song: The Night Train (#1 Broadjam: New Age)
Reviewer: Kate Carpenter
Positive Comments: Here’s a song about a memorable night train ride, taking the singer back home to his love. The poetry and alliteration in this song are stellar. I especially admire the use of alliteration (slipping swirling steel). That’s some great lyric writing!
Constructive Comments: Match up the harmony/doubled vocals better. Shorten the song. The genre is folk/rural, but it sounded more folk/general to me. It’s too modern/electronic sounding (in my opinion) for folk/rural.Just my opinion: A train song ought to sound “train-y”. The only glimpse I caught of Trainy-ness was your night train harmony at one point in the song. I’m sure you already put a lot of time into this track and probably wouldn’t change it at this point. But if you did, I’d get some guitar or harmonica in there to give it a more folksy-trainy vibe. My guess is Chet Nichols. Am I right? Mrs. Kate