Local Song Pick #3: Benji Taylor - Subways

This is part of a series where I pick out a song from the Tri-State area and tell you as much as I can or feel like telling you about it. More importantly, I will only post something if I can in some way provide you with the means to hear it.

Benji Taylor - Subways

The third local song pick is from a guy that bleeds emotion and heart all over his recordings and plays it just as powerful on the raw open mic night stage at the V Club.

"Subways" is a powerful ballad by a local singer-songwriter in the vein of Ray LaMontagne or Damien Rice. The music is of a soulful genre popularized and then slightly perverted by John Mayer.

The song is about the loss of someone who is trying to replace the torn narrator who can't stop loving the source of his pain. He seems to know he was doing wrong, but he may have taken advantage just a little too long.

The vocal work is solid and emotionally appropriate. The guitar work is smartly accompanied with electronic elements and delicate string work.

The song is so polished, you may mistake it for a radio favorite, but the raw talents of Benji Taylor are still being trimmed an refined in the city of Huntington.

Benji Taylor is still pushing his first solo record, "The Things Between Us."

Check out his Web site for more information.