Album Tracks:
01. Track One 02. Track Two 03. Track Three 04. Track Four 05. Track Five 06. Track Six 07. Track Seven 08. Track Eight 09. Track Nine 10. Track Ten 11. Track Eleven 12. Track Twelve 13. Track Thirteen 14. Track Fourteen
Biography:
Railroad Earth emerged from the breakup of one of New Jersey`s most popular bands, From Good Homes, in early 2001. Later that year, with appearances at some of the major summer festivals on the bluegrass circuit -- the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, and High Sierra Music Festival -- as well as the Fox Theater in Boulder, CO, Railroad Earth showed that their music could go well beyond the realm of traditional bluegrass to incorporate folk, Celtic, jazz, and rock music. Todd Sheaffer, the group`s main songwriter and former lead singer in From Good Homes, stood at the forefront of the group`s vision. Songwriting became a matter of personal growth and the expression of human emotions for him.
The journey began for Railroad Earth as early as 1998, when Timothy Carbone (Blue Sparks from Hell, Kings in Disguise) met film music supervisor Brian Ross (former booking agent with Family Tree Agency) at the now-defunct Wetlands club in New York City. The two started a conversation about bluegrass music during a break in the music performance that night. After many telephone conversations and e-mails several months later, the two discussed more seriously the idea of gathering together professional musicians in New Jersey to play bluegrass at informal jam sessions. Ross hired Carbone ...
