I wrote a post back in March about Steel Train and, since then, I gotsome feedback from some of the band's fans, so I thought I would check the band out to see what I thought of it.


The bands website is very good and best of all you can listen to some of their tracks, which were excellent. I especially liked Gipsy Waves and Blown Away.


Steel Train are


Jack Antonoff - vocals, guitar, piano

Matthew Goldman - guitar
Matthias Gruber - drums

Scott Irby Ranniar - vocals, Percussion
Evan Winiker - bass


Here is what some of the blurb on the website says about the band:

"Just be yourself." It's the most over-prescribed cheap advice of the modern age. But who actually follows it? For their part, the members of Steel Train have no choice but to be themselves, however many selves that is. Equal parts rock, country, bluegrass, Latin, funk and jam, Steel Train gives full vent to every musical impulse in their collective souls. With their spectacular full-length album debut on Drive-Thru Records Twilight Tales From The Prairies Of The Sun , the New York-based quintet makes eclecticism respectable again.

The Steel Train story began over three years ago when New Jersey native Antonoff, a budding songwriter who idolized Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and the Beatles, would entertain high school classmates during lunch hour. Everything changed when he met Harlem-born Scott Irby-Ranniar, who had been singing professionally since age two, having starred as Simba in the Broadway production of the Lion King. The two became friends and colleagues, practicing whenever they could.

For the full details on the band go to the following link - Steel Train. Give them a listen they are well worth it!!