Steel Train

Mellow pop rock with a jammy vibe (yes, there are marimba solos). Steel Train update Crosby, Stills & Nash-style grooviness with an obvious love for the era when Dylan raised chickens on a farm with the Band, and Santana pried groupies off of his leg in a vain attempt to get them to listen to the Mahavishnu Orchestra's oeuvre.

Because they're on powerhouse punk label Drive-Thru, Steel Train have managed to
appeal as easily to Warped Tour skate punks as to Bonnaroo stoners. But there's no
mistaking that their aesthetic lies firmly with the hippies. Twilight Tales is a delightfully
mellow end-of-summer album: "Grace" has the same sweetly lazy vibe as the first Scud
Mountain Boys album, and "Blue" adds some Santana-inspired noodly instrumenta... More >