(F) The Music Encyclopedia of The Gravis Sub Humus


Freight Train: Just The Beginning 1971

Freight Train were a super obscure and very competent US Heavy Blues Rock band. They recorded one album in 1971 on the Philadelphia based Fly By Nite label. If you recall Sacred Muschroom's version of the Otis Rush song, "Mean Old World" on their one and only album, you get an excellent "feel" for what this band's style put forward. Tight and groovin' hard guitar oriented Blues Rock with that GREAT period sound. All and all, I can't think of a better or more solid US Hard/Heavy Blues Rock album. Sad that Freight Train only squeezed out one record, but certainly not surprising.