Download Westbound Train mp3

Artist: Westbound Train: mp3 download    Genre(s):  Rock Reggae     Discography:      Five to Two    Year: 2007    Tracks: 11      Transitions    Year: 2006    Tracks: 16      Searching for a Melody    Year: 2004    Tracks: 13 Boston-based Westbound Train represent a new take on '60s-era reggae and ska with touches of wind, psyche, blues, Motown, and even lucy Stone. The vII was in the beginning comprised of Obi Fernandez (vocals/trombone), Jesse Hayes (drums), Cory Williams (guitar), Thad Merritt (bass), Rich Graiko (trumpet), Gideon Blumenthal (keyboards), and Josh Cohen (adolphe Sax). They released 2 independent albums, 2002's Searching for a Melody (re-released in 2003 on Megalith) and 2004's Fivesome to Two, ahead a demonstration tape made its way into Tim Armstrong's workforce at a hometown Transplants show. Armstrong was impressed by the music, presently asking the guys to guest on the extroverted Transplants album, Haunted Cities. Westbound Train continued touring and over the eld divided up stages with bands like the Toasters, Reel Big Fish, the Skatalites, Street Dogs, the Planet Smashers, and more. They likewise scored a 2005 Boston Music Award nomination for Best World Music Act, the only ska turnout to be given the honour. By early 2006, their friendly relationship with Armstrong had off into a disk deal with his Epitaph imprint, Hellcat Records, and Westbound Train's pronounce debut, Transitions, was issued that September. Williams left the group subsequently roger Huntington Sessions for the album were finish to act on a jazz career, and the ring shortly welcomed guitarist Johnny DeCarlo into the fold as his surrogate.