TRANSATLANTIC RAILROAD - "Express To Oblivion" (1968/2000)

 

Transatlantic Railroad's a 1960's Northern California bay area band that you don't hear about every day, but they were really quite unique and made some good music.

The music on this release titled "Express To Oblivion" was recorded in 1967-68, but wasn't released until 2000 when it was picked up by RD Records in Switzerland.

The story is that they were working on an album when they had multiple problems in the studio, and they only got a handful of songs recorded. 

Later, guitarist and lead singer Kent Housman recorded with Blue Cheer for one album.

 

This song starts off sounding like a Blue Cheer-Quicksilver blend, then changes into a jazz club song that then transitions into a slow blues, then slows down even further into a sweet love song with a bluesy guitar solo, before ending in the rowdy fashion it started, and that's all in only three minutes and eighteen seconds.

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