Railroad Earth News

Railroad Earth will perform at Brooklyn, NY's Music Hall of Williamsburg this Thursday, December 10.

RAILROAD EARTH ANNOUNCE NEW YEAR'S PLANS, NEW ALBUM IN THE WORKS Railroad Earth After a largely successful fall tour, Railroad Earth is wrapping up a momentous 2009 with performances on both coasts before heading to the studio for their forthcoming album.

Tim Carbone, a fiddler with Railroad Earth, will join Great American Taxi at Vail's Sandbar Friday night Special ot the Vail Daily If you go ... What: Great American Taxi with special guest fiddler Tim Carbone from Railroad Earth and Oakhurst Where: Sandbar, West Vail When: Friday.

News : Great American Taxi with Leftover Salmon Frontman Vince Herman Plans 2010 Album conqueroo wrote: on Dec.

Singer/songwriter Todd Sheaffer has had quite the month . The weekend before Thanksgiving, Sheaffer's primary band Railroad Earth played three shows at Boulder, CO's Fox Theatre.

Fiddler Tim Carbone performs Dec. 2 in Aspen with Great American Taxi. When: Wednesday, Dec.

Railroad Earth emerged from the breakup of one of New Jersey's most popular bands, From Good Homes, in early 2001.

Railroad Earth seamlessly melded bluegrass, folk and rock at its three-night Fox Theatre stint Thursday-Saturday. Photo by Joshua Elioseff.

C.T. Tucker, lead singer of Blue Sparks From Hell, who perform at Wild West City in Stanhope this week.

In the bluegrass world, there aren't many bands with more national momentum right now than Greensky Bluegrass from Kalamazoo, Mich.

An enthusiastic crowd gathered last Friday night to hear Railroad Earth play the first of their two-night stand at the Paradise Rock Club.

Greensky Bluegrass, as the name suggests, is not the average bluegrass band. The Michigan based band plays traditional bluegrass music, but also focuses on challenging what many may consider to be the limits of the genre.

After much anticipation, bluegrass patriarch Del McCoury and WAMU's Bluegrass Country's Katy Daley announced the initial lineup for the 3rd Annual DelFest live on air this morning.

MCCOURY MUSIC & HIGH SIERRA MUSIC ANNOUNCE INITIAL LINEUP FOR 3rd ANNUAL DELFEST at ALLEGANY COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS, CUMBERLAND, MD Del McCoury Band After much anticipation, bluegrass patriarch Del McCoury and WAMU's Bluegrass Country's Katy Daley announced the initial lineup for the 3rd Annual DelFest live on air this morning.

Amidst the costume preparations and pumpkin carving, warm up for Halloween with some time out on the town.

Not quite bluegrass, jam band or rock 'n' roll. Railroad Earth dips and dodges the listener's innate desire to cloister a group's sound within the rigid boundaries of a definable genre.

Each in its own way, and rooted as much in acoustic Grateful Dead as in Bill Monroe 's Blue Grass Boys, Boulder's Yonder Mountain String Band and New Jersey's Railroad Earth together represent the apex of contemporary improvised bluegrass.

The year's final Asheville Arts Walk happens at 5-8 p.m. Friday around downtown.

Greensky Bluegrass is poised to become the next big thing on the adventurous jamgrass scene with predecessors like Yonder Mountain String Band and Railroad Earth.

Coming off a pretty impressive summer of high profile Colorado appearances, including a return to Telluride Bluegrass Festival, a packed tent at Mile High Music Festival and a stop at Red Rocks with the Allman Brothers, acoustic jam band Railroad Earth could almost call Colorado their second home.