Artist:   Jesse DeNatale
Song:   "Children of the Sun"
Album: Soul Parade
Label:   Jackpine Social Club
Year:    2006

How is it that a song will crawl inside your ear and stay there forever? Years can go by and you don't hear it, but then one morning it's the first thing that comes to mind when you open your eyes. And not only that, you remember everything about it, like where you were when you first heard it, how it made you feel, what it made you think about and the size of the lump in your throat that wouldn't go away while you listened over and over again. The words opened up a widescreen view of people you've never met but felt like old friends, and the music was a mystery revealed with only a few sounds: a piano, pedal steel, standup bass, snare and haunting harmonica that sounded like it was being played by a person with emphysema. And that's just the first reaction. As the song grows deeper inside you, secrets are swapped and before too long, it's like the songwriter was singling only you out to share them. Jesse DeNatale has powers that most musicians don't. It's really that simple. He knows things, and from them has been able to write songs from the other side of life. The side we can't see, but will never escape. Someone like this makes you believe it's the only side that really matters. Soul Parade will convince you he's right.