Graveyard Train
Mummy | 2011-01-04 04:06 | Written By: by AIR
Do you like horror?
Do you like country music?
Do you like community radio?
If the answer is yes, yes and yes then you'll be rather excited but probably not all that surprised that Horror Country band Graveyard Train was named PBS FM's number one album of 2010.
If the answer is no, no and no, then you'll probably think "WTF"?
Now is the time to learn.
Melbourne's Progressive Broadcasting Service plays a phenominal variety of music, all of it "little heard", none of it playlisted and all of it spun by presenters that live and breathe their chosen niche. It's a big deal when the station chooses an independently recorded, independently released and distributed album by an Australian band ahead of artists as diverse and universally acclaimed as Flying Lotus, The Black Keys, Tame Impala, Mavis Staples and Justin Townes Earle. Great stuff.
What may or may not have started out as a bit of a joke between some rather excellent musicians ("hey, here's an obvious idea, can't believe it hasn't been done before, let's start a blue-grass country band that sings about horror n' stuff") has taken a life of it's own, much like the mummies and zombies that populate their songs... ahem. Here's "Mummy", Graveyard Train's latest single, out through Spooky Records and MGM.
Also, honorable mention needs to go to the other 100% independent album to make the list, the brilliant "On A Clear Day" by JAMIE OEHLERS & PAUL GRABOWSKY.
