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Summary: It's a Long, Long Way Down To Elko, Nevada
Comment: The Two Disc Set of Live Railroad Earth from a tour of The Americas in the Spring of 2005, is about the most refreshing batch of Music that I have listened to in many a moon.
These six musicians of the wood and the wires, are the masters of a style of playing that I refer to as: "Industrail-Slamgrass-Boogie". Guitars, fiddles, banjo, mandolin, dorbo, bass, drums, tinwhistle and flutes are played to perfection. Strick Bluegrass Arrangements erupt into free-form, Cosmic-Jams that travel to some interesting places.
Everybody playing here stands out as great. And with two hours of fine tunes, this is time well spent. "Colorado", "Bird In A House", 'Mighty River". "Warhead Boogie", "Railroad Earth" into "Seven Story Mountain" are only a few of the Highlights herein. The violin of Tom Carbone is a featured soloist but he shares the stage with everybody else. The runs are of breakneck speed, and then they flow into long and interesting passages of Music that tend to hypnotize at least a little.
The Second Disc flows and meshes into a Musical Suite that never lets you down, muck akin to the music of The Grateful Dead in their heyday. But this is so much different, as this Groove Music has a sound that would have had a home 150 years back on that lonesome and dusty trail. This is homesprung American Music that does indeed Boogie and Rock.
This Record is way outta place in the drum-machine and Boy-Band World of this Time. But if you want to try something way out in Left Field that really sounds fantastic, take the drive on that backroad to Elko. You will really enjoy the ride.
Four Stars !!!
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Summary: A ''Mighty" Album!
Comment: It's been said to death in these reviews, but it may very well be one of the best albums I've heard in years. The songs just grab you and after only a few listens you realize that you're already singing along! To me, that says that the music stays with you after it's over and captivates you while it's playing. In case you haven't noticed, I highly recommend this album for whatever the reason or season!
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Summary: It's okay....
Comment: I bought this over a year ago and I really want to like it, so I keep coming back to it. I have yet to make it through both both disks without skipping songs or bits of songs. I have "Bird in a House" and the "Black Bear Sessions" and despite the label's assertion that those two recordings were basically done live without extensive overdubbing, based on "Elko" I can't help but think RRE is something of a studio creation. As a guitar and mandolin player I found the jams on Elko to be flat, the fiddle (exuse me, violin)sounds way to spacey for me and I didn't particularly like the whole mix. It just seems to be missing some of the urgency of a live show. With that being said, if RRE were to visit my neck of the woods (fat chance) I would go see them; you can't after all ever really capture on tape the vibe that makes live music so great, but RRE should try making another live recording some time.
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Summary: Great album- a must for your collection!
Comment: This is my favorite Railroad Earth album, and a "must" for any dynamic music collection. Its a phenomenal quality live CD and shows how truly talented all the musicians are....they really jam-out! Its hard not to want to dance to most of the songs- they are all pretty much up-beat, peppy songs you'll probably end up (like I do) humming constantly after hearing the CD.
If you have a chance to check them out live, I highly recommend it as well. I've seen them a few times and they are amazing in concert. They are really tight and amazing musicians. If you are deciding amongst their various albums, I can't recommend this one highly enough!
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Summary: Railroad Earth Elko Live
Comment: This is a good live cd with most of their really good songs. Most of the tracks are very long and this makes for more time listening. I like thier studio cds better.
Bill....Clarion PA
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