Music Review // Parker Barrow "Nothin' Left to Save"

 

There exists a certain genre of rock music that feels like it goes back to classic rock from the 1960's and 1970's into the rock n roll stylings of the 1990's before grunge.   It may not always be easy to find a point of reference for artists who sound like this, but I do feel like the soundtrack to the film "Wayne's World" (which I had on cassette growing up) does cover that certain sound and time rather nicely.   Parker Barrow creates the type of music that Wayne Campbell would enjoy and if they were to remake that movie for some reason, Parker Barrow could also be their Crucial Taunt.

"Nothin' Left to Save" is also the type of song which there would have been a movie about back in the mid to late 1990's.   The idea behind the song is that someone is so far gone they no longer have any redeemable qualities and I think that could easily be put into a movie where someone (even someone in a band) sells their soul to get what they want and then in the end just become without saving.  This happens more often than you think (not the selling your soul part, that'd be for the movie) but imagining this as even a titular song to a film is just how powerful the sound is.

Another way Parker Barrow shows off these maximum rock n roll skills is by having not one but two guitar solos within this song.  It's big, it's somewhat heavy and at more than one point during the song you can hear these lyrics just belted out, showing off the range and vocal prowess.  Singing this sing alone would make me winded, so the idea of not only performing this live (as we can see in the music video) but also other songs just goes to show what kind of special band Parker Barrow truly is.

Perhaps the biggest part of this song and why you should find yourself singing along with it is that it's about being pushed to that point of no return.   While this might be specifically about another person, you could see this reflected in any number of instances- a job perhaps- where you just get to that point where there is no coming back from it.  At that point, it's time to just start it all over somewhere else and I think that this song truly captures that fire and passion within the blues fused rock n roll.