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| Biography: With songs that reflect a twangy, melancholy, country stride encased in a folksy, bluegrass rhythm, John Train, a Philadelphia quintet, holds to its own integrity and doesn't need to be loud and brassy in order to be heard. Picking its moniker from the legendary Phil Ochs' pseudonym from the '60s and ...Read full biography |
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Released: 2001 Label: Record Cellar Critics' Rating:  Some people have a hard time appreciating subtlety, restraint, and understatement -- that's why many New York jazz critics of the 1950s didn't understand cool school greats like Chet Baker, Stan Getz, ...Read full reviewReleased: 1999 Label: Record Cellar Prod. Critics' Rating:  The Philadelphia group John Train lashes Jon Houlon's sharp, poignant songcraft to folk and country instrumentation (featuring dobro, fiddle, and mandolin). The secret weapons here, however, are the lyrics; ...Read full review
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