For over two decades, Railroad Earth has captivated audiences with gleefully unpredictable live shows and eloquent and elevated studio output. The group introduced its signature sound on 2001’s The Black Bear Sessions. Between selling out hallowed venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, they’ve been responsible for launching signature festivals Hangtown Music Festival in Placerville, CA and Hillberry: The Harvest Moon Festival in Eureka Springs, AR. Sought after by legends, the John Denver Estate tapped them to put lyrics penned by the late John Denver to music on the 2019 vinyl EP, Railroad Earth: The John Denver Letters. Beyond tallying tens of millions of streams, the collective have earned widespread critical acclaim from David Fricke of Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, Glide Magazine, and NPR who assured, “Well-versed in rambling around, as you might expect from a band named after a Jack Kerouac poem, the New Jersey-built jam-grass engine Railroad Earth has let no moss grow under its rustic wheels.”
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Railroad Earth
Stillwater Township
Railroad Earth is a bluegrass-influenced Americana band formed in Stillwater, New Jersey, in 2001. Their music blends progressive bluegrass, folk, rock, country, jazz, Celtic and other Americana influences, with lyrical songwriting and extensive live improvisation.
A 1921 theater on the Clark Fork, built by Billy Simons and named for his wife, light opera singer Edna Wilma. Renovated in 2015, it is the big indoor room for national touring acts.