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train tracks: a personal essay on a train tip across america

2008-05-23 05:50:12 by adrian in ipickmynose: an SF-centric indie music blog
 
Its not uncommon for Americans to go over to Europe and ride the rails all over but most havent ridden this nations rails extensively From September 7 to 10, 2003, for three and a half days I rode trains from Boston to Emeryville, changing trains once, in Chicago. I moved to California on those trains. I had known Boston as home for four years...
 
 
 
 
 
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New Life for Soul Train

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2008-06-18 16:09:07 by Chris Gray in Houstoned Rocks
The New York Times reported yesterday that production company Madvision Entertainment has bought the rights to televisions long-running R&B franchise Soul Train from the programs founder and former host Don Cornelius. Soul Train ceased producing new episodes in 2006, but continues to air in syndication, including 2 a.m. Saturday night/Sunday...
 
 
 
 
 
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GRAVY TRAIN - Strength Of A Dream, The Gravy Train Anthology (2006)

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2008-05-15 15:49:22 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
Half the story Although Gravy Train's career was all too brief, they still managed to switch labels midway through, resulting in two albums for Vertigo and two for Dawn Records. Strength of a dream is taken from their time with Dawn, thus consisting of the albums Second birth and Staircase to the day in their entirety, plus a number of non album...
 
 
 
 
 
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GRAVY TRAIN - (A Ballad of) A Peaceful Man (1971)

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2008-07-23 21:52:56 by Editor in Progarchives.com (Progressive rock and related latest reviews)
A band fuelled by good musicianship and enthusiasm, Gravy Train really reached their pinnacle with their eponymous debut album: none of their subsequent efforts could touch it. Still, (A Ballad of) A Peaceful Man happens to be a very good album, easily enjoyable for any rock lover who loves something beyond the usual standards of mainstream. The...
 
 
 
 
 
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All Aboard The Hellbound Train

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2008-09-16 05:29:00 by Chili in Rock and Roll Classics
American Blues or British Blues, each style had is advantages and disadvantages, but I seemed for a time drawn to both when working formats in the mid 70's. British blues was distinctly different in the late 60's. In the US London/Parrot Records was the home for Savoy Brown as well as many other British rock groups When A Step Further came out...
 
 
 
 
 
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Fog Horns for Train Horns

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2008-12-02 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
One of the things that I knew I would miss about San Francisco, especially my Richmond District neighborhood, was the fog horns I could hear lowing from the Golden Gate. Its a narrow path with a lot of shipping traffic in notoriously poor visibility, so theres a fairly elaborate concert that goes on whenever the weather is foggy (read: always)....
 
 
 
 
 
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Last Train to Nowhere

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2008-03-25 16:15:06 by Bubbachups in motel de moka
Photo credit: Jelle Baars Over the last couple of years I seem to have grown a much stronger affection for public transportation. Im not a daily commuter - I can go to work and university by bicycle - but regularly travelling back and forth by train between my hometown and Amsterdam for concerts has convinced me that the social elements of it by...
 
 
 
 
 
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'Downtown Train' Times Two

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2008-04-10 12:05:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
Not a lot from Mondays Bakers Dozen was available at YouTube this morning. I passed on a portion of The Bands performance of Mystery Train from the farewell film, The Last Waltz . (If I could have found the full performance, featuring Paul Butterfield on harp, I likely would have settled for that A little further down Mondays list came Rod...
 
 
 
 
 
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Palancar - Ambient Train Wreck Back [earman037] Ambient

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2008-04-25 16:09:33 by deepgoa in NJ/DJ DEEP-GOA's DSNightâ„¢ Sessions & Conversations
The eleventh release in the series of Ambient Train Wreck back catalog releases by ambient/electronic artist Palancar One of the many aspects of Palancars music is live performance, both in front of live audiences and over live net radio. As part of his weekly net radio program over the past several years, Palancar has done many live...
 
 
 
 
 
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Live Review: Gravy Train!!!!, the Pseudo Dates, Triangle Forest at hi-dive

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2008-07-17 07:30:25 by Dave Herrera in Backbeat Online