Christmas wasn’t supposed to come this way or this early. When Last Train Home promised to be back for a series of holiday shows at Iota, the calendar got moved up with the news that the club would be shutting […]
Christmas wasn’t supposed to come this way or this early. When Last Train Home promised to be back for a series of holiday shows at Iota, the calendar got moved up with the news that the club would be shutting […]
Having just returned from Nashville and the ever-growing Americana Music Association Conference and Festival, I have to say the highlight for me is the conversations with other music industry types who share a deep love and vast knowledge of great music. Eric […]
On the second night of a two night run over the Fourth of July weekend, Last Train Home frontman Eric Brace playfully lectured the audience about not setting off fireworks inside. If there was rampant enthusiasm, it was in part […]
It’s not for nothing that one of the largest photos on this CD’s jacket is that of a vacated plastic chair, the kind you might find at a bus terminal or, ahem, train station. Many of the album’s songs are […]
Last Train Home combines various American music forms country, blues, jazz, etc. with band enough members to field a softball team. The songs on Bound Away, written mostly by leader Eric Brace, largely evoke a back-roads feeling of melancholy and […]
The narrator of this album’s opening cut seems to have given up lithium in favor of Ritalin. He’s wired, he’s been dumped, and he lets us know in a herky-jerky tune that could be the bastard issue of a tryst […]
It’s always a pleasure to discover artists whose works infiltrate your mind with quiet grace. And so it was with the eponymous debut of Last Train Home, a twang-pop group from the Washington, D.C., area with songs smooth and safe […]
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