What Are You Listening To?

[Ruby]

Railroad Earth – Last of the Outlaws. As one may deduce from the title, a sort of dusty, frontier type offering from this difficult to peg outfit who are mostly a jam band, and otherwise referred to as ‘newgrass’/progressive bluegrass(sic)/Americana/folk, I dunno, pick a description! Anyway, they’re good musicians and this is a pretty tight album IMHO. Really great narratives with a combination of Celtic and folky sounds that call the Wild West to mind with no trouble at all (fiddles probably help a lot!), especially on this one, “Hangtown Ball” which you’d think would be kinda macabre (as it takes the form of a sort of a litany of those who’ve come to a sticky end), but which strangely, isn’t … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmh24Xh1Hms

And the title track live which is cut just a teeny tad short, which is a shame, but it’s worth it anyway, I think …

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