Philly-based singer and songwriter Aaron Parnell Brown draws from his hometown’s distinguished heritage, while at the same time incorporating influences from great songwriters of other genres. The past few years have seen him numerous awards, including the 2014 Soul Artist of the Year Award in Philadelphia. Aaron is getting ready to release his sophomore album, The Tin Man, and he leads off with the classic sound of the new single, “Just Leave.”
Philly-based singer and songwriter Aaron Parnell Brown draws from his hometown’s distinguished heritage, while at the same time incorporating influences from great songwriters of other genres. The past few years have seen him numerous awards, including the 2014 Soul Artist of the Year Award in Philadelphia. Aaron is getting ready to release his sophomore album, The Tin Man, and he leads off with the classic sound of the new single, “Just Leave.”
Aaron says about the song: When I wrote “Just Leave” with my buddy and bandmate Adam Zielinski about a year ago, I was just so excited about its potential to be like one of those great 70's soul songs that just instantly draws you in with a cool intro, a really killer groove, and very colorful chord changes that help the listener feel what's going on in the content of the song. 70’s Stevie Wonder was definitely a big influence on the recording of the song as well. In fact, at Strange Weather recording studio in Brooklyn where the song was tracked Daniel, the owner and engineer, asked me before setting up the mics “What are you going for?” and I immediately told him “1974 Stevie Wonder” to which he responded “awesome.”
The lyrics for the song were inspired by the lyrics of many of Nina Simone’s songs where they depict life as much more complicated and nuanced than just in black and white/right or wrong (i.e. “Don’t Explain,” “Don’t Smoke in Bed,” & “Either Way I Lose”). I’m very interested in exploring the “grey” in life because to me it’s much closer to the truth of how life really is. So, that’s how I approached this song where someone is in a committed relationship and has a family, but at one time was unfaithful to their partner and now they realize their mistake, but their former object of affection just won’t let them get on with being the good person they think they could be. To complicate things a bit further, the person in the relationship is physically obsessed with this other person and knows enough about themselves to realize that they can’t end this by themselves and basically begs the other person to leave them alone, hence “Just Leave.”
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Aaron Parnell Brown - “Just Leave”
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