More very good stuff!
author: Si
And I thought their first album was good! - this is right up there with it. The pace on some of the tracks is bit slower (ie Don't mess with my baby) which gives some of the songs an eerie feel!!
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Trainreck features K.M. Williams and Washboard Jackson laying down some of the t
author: Mick Rainsford / Blues In Britain magazine
Trainreck features K.M. Williams and Washboard Jackson laying down some of the toughest, rawest and most uncompromising, mainly, North Mississippi hill country blues you are ever likely to hear.
The title of this CD is ‘The Train Keeps a’Rollin’, but it could equally be titled ‘The Rhythm Keeps a’Rollin’ as the title track mines an elemental hill country groove fuelled by Jackson’s washboard and Williams’ droning guitar, underpinning Williams’ declamatory and intensely brooding vocals, carrying the mood over into a highly personal and feral rendition of Fred McDowell’s ‘Red Cross Store, which is punctuated with occasional slide flourishes.
Jackson’s washboard and regimental drums on ‘Don’t Mess With My Baby’ give this number a fife and drum band feel, the menacing Hooker-like intensity of William’s vocals accentuated by the repetitive ferocity of his guitar riffs, this mood repeating itself on the churning ‘Black Dog Bark’, where Williams’ vicious guitar is permeated with shades of the great Willie Johnson. Jr Kimbrough comes to mind on ‘Meet You At The Station’, where the trance inducing intensity of Williams’ groove is only fully realized when the song finishes, the silence jolting you back into reality in the same way as hitting a kerb when dozing at the wheel of your car.
Charlie Patton’s ‘Peavine Blues’, with it’s wicked, distorted slide, chanted vocals and ‘dustbin’ drumming; the ‘fuzzed out’ guitar and Texan vocal intonations of Blind Lemon’s ‘Electric Chair Blues’; ‘Canned Heat’s Killing Me’ with it’s frantic rhythms and slide, and impassioned vocals replete with spoken asides, and three renditions of the harp and bass drum fuelled paean ‘Callin The Blues’, are further highlights of a great set of what can only be described as ‘gutbucket’ blues. (www.cdbaby.com/trainreck).
Ratings 9 each
Mick Rainsford
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Trainreck is Extraordinary!
author: BLUES-N-CO
Trainreck is Extraordinary! Ain't no other way to say it!With merely nothing,just their talent and their axes(harp & guitar for K.M.;Washboard,cymbals,bass drum and snare drum for Washboard)they get you out a blues so rich and powerful and unbelievably emotion loaded,a blues coming from the delta-between Mississippi and Texas,which keeps alive the tradition from illustrious masters such as Lightnin' Hopkins,R. L. Burnside,John Lee Hooker or Blind Willie Johnson.Listening to this CD you'll get trapped by the fascinating rhythms,voodooed by the vehement sing,you'll take off with the tempo.This is a great CD,a collection piece. (read the complete review of this CD in our magazine no. 29
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