Love's Train

The song was written by Con Funk Shun frontmen Michael Cooper and Felton C. Pilate II, and produced by the band.

It is an R&B, funk and quiet storm song that includes a "steering bass guitar", "glittering keys", and "synth-centric flair of '80s R&B".

During an interview with Vibe, Felton Pilate affirmed that he wrote a song called "Baby Please Come Home", the original version of "Love's Train", for the To the Max album.

"[2] Danny Thomas, Con Funk Shun's keyboard player, told Pilate he was crazy because the song was a hit.

[2] Cooper decided to go home and poured out his sorrow into the lyrics of a song, which started "warm night, can't sleep, too hurt, too weak, gotta call her up".

[8][2] "Love's Train" was included as the seventh track on Con Funk Shun's tenth studio album To the Max, released in 1982 by Mercury Records.

"[1] The American superduo Silk Sonic, which consists of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, recorded a version of "Love's Train" as a commemorative song for Valentine's Day.

"Love's Train" was later added to An Evening with Silk Sonic on streaming services and included on the webstore exclusive vinyl recording.

[1] He furthered, that Silk Sonic and D'Mile studied the original song in order to recapture its authenticity, and added some new sounds that Con Funk Shun could have done if they could cover their track.

"[15] In a similar publication, Silk Sonic typed on Twitter, "We love this song so much we wanted to sing it for y'all".

Emma Kummrow, Luigi Mazzocchi, and Blake Espy played violin with Gared Crawford, Charlene Kwas, and Ghislaine Fleischmann.

[19] According to Rolling Stone's Larisha Paul, Mars and D'Mile "added the bounce of Silk Sonic's signature groove, picking up the pace of the original".

[3] Andy Bustard, writing for HipHopDX, said the duo changed "the '80s production for lush, analog instrumentation that would sound at home in the previous decade".

[8] "Love's Train" was released on February 14, 2022, by Aftermath Entertainment and Atlantic Records as a commemorative song for Valentine's Day.

[23] On April 21, 2022, Billboard reported that "Love's Train" was the album's fourth single, with no official date of release in the United States.

[26] Eddie Fu, writing for Consequence, dubbed the song as Silk Sonic's latest "soundtrack for...ahem adult activities".

Fu commented that both Mars and .Paak stayed "true" to Con Funk Shun's original and "easily slip into their seductive role".

[3] Billboard's Jason Lipshutz compared the best songs on An Evening with Silk Sonic to the cover version of "Love's Train", saying "the homage pops with modern production and two self-assured vocal performances".

Bustar praised the merge of Mars "soaring falsetto", and .Paak's "raspy timber" as it "adds more sensuality to the Valentine's Day jam.

"[20] Jordan Darville of The Fader commented that while "the aesthetic of Silk Sonic may seem tongue-in-cheek, the music and the duo's appreciation for the era they're channeling certainly isn't".

[28] In a mixed review, Uproxx's Williams called Silk Sonic's vocals "velvety", and noted that despite being a love song, "it's as much about the messiness as anything on their debut album".

Entertainment Tonight's Zach Seemayer‍ dubbed Silk Sonic's performance as one of the show highlights, "flawless '70s crooning that is every bit as smooth as their name wound lead you to expect.