Awesome Song Of The Week! "Walk The World Away" by Teddy Brown

It's Thursday afternoon. You're probably done with classes/work by now and ready to kick back with some awesome music. That's why it's time for

AWESOME SONG OF THE WEEK!!!

This week's awesome song is "Walk The World Away" by Teddy Brown. A terrific example of Jamaican R&B, this is a song that catches you by surprise, starting out with just some mellow acoustic guitar and eventually transforming into a spectacle of choral vocals, horns, and bombastic drums. This song is as epic as it is beautiful, and while the production is over-the-top to say the least, the melody is exquisitely simple. It's probably the only song out there that reminds me of both energetic Motown singles and chill campfire songs. The lyrics are also great; while a lot of them don't really make sense, they're beautiful in their ambiguity. I've never really been able to understand what exactly this song is about, but this is one song that I've truly been able to relate to more than any other.

Want some background information on Teddy Brown? Me too. I don't know much about Teddy Brown, since I discovered this song on a compilation that didn't give any background information about him. A google search turned up this myspace page for a Jamaican singer named Teddy Brown, who might be the same guy, since the vocal style is pretty similar. But I'm not positive, since "Walk The World Away" appears nowhere on the myspace page, the compilation I found it on didn't have a picture of Teddy Brown, the songs on the myspace page are a really different style then "Walk The World Away," and the biography says Teddy Brown got his start in 1980, even though I think "Walk The World Away" was released before then. Who knows. Just enjoy the song.