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Paul Pena - Jet Airliner (The Original)

submitted by Brian Houston

(dag)
1 decade 4 years 9 months 2 weeks ago

From YouTube:
This is the original version of Jet Airliner. The song was made famous by Steve Miller Band after he received an unreleased copy of Paul's album New Train.

Due to problems with famous manager Albert Grossman, Paul Pena's phenomenal album New Train didn't get released for almost 30 years. It's a truly amazing work of art.

While Steve Millers version is fantastic and a great cover, Paul's original version is out of this world. It's a very deep and heartfelt song. Paul, who was completely blind by the age of 20, sings of his experience on an airplane trip from Boston to Montreal to play the first-ever date with T-Bone Walker's band.

Most of Paul's income came from the royalties for writing this great song. He later was the focal point of the award winning documentary "Genghis Blues."

Sadly, Paul passed away in 2005 after a long bout with Pancreatitis.

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dag

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Been playing an acoustic guitar cover of this with @persephone on the mandolin - I honestly didn't know Steve's version was a cover. I wish I did, because the original is awesome.

I had no clue either. Awesome find!

Nice! Never heard this version before, love it, great find, thanks for posting! I think I like this one better.

shewbox says...

Paul Pena was also featured in an interesting documentary about him traveling to Tuva after learning to throatsing called Genghis Blues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Blues

Edit: Woops, guess I should read the whole description before I post

Here's a live version on Conan in 2001:

dag

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Great follow-up. I love how the Max Weinberg 7 slot in as his "band". Those guys were pros.>> ^Duckman33:
Here's a live version on Conan in 2001:

Length is 5m45s.

The duration of this video has been updated from unknown to 5:45 - length declared by oritteropo.

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