We are very happy to announce the Artists and Train Route for the 2012 Railroad Revival Tour. For the second installment of the annual traveling music celebration, RRT has enlisted Country music legend Willie Nelson, folk rockers Band of Horses, Grammy nominated Jamey Johnson and actor- musician John Reilly & Friends. Early-Bird Discounted tickets go on sale on Friday, July 27th at 10am CST.
Railroad Revival Tour is an experience that transcends typical music tours or festivals and glorifies the historical romance between music and trains under the setting of the great American landscape. This one-of-a-kind U.S. train tour travels town to town aboard 16 vintage, 1940’s railcars, setting up open air, pop-up concert venues in parks, fields and lots around the railroad tracks where they stop.
This year’s train route kicks off at the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth, Georgia surrounded by the historical steam locomotives and railcars of years past. The train then heads to Memphis, home of the legendary Stax Records and Elvis. Returning to the tour’s home state of Texas, the train will stop in the historical railroad town of Old Town Spring before heading west to Tempe, San Pedro and a finale where it began last year in Oakland, CA. For all of our friends in the Northeast and Midwest, we’ll see you in late Spring 2013!
Big Easy Express, the film documenting the epic journey on the inaugural Railroad Revival Tour with Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show is finally available for purchase today on BlueRay/DVD. The film, Directed by Emmett Malloy and Produced by Tim Lynch, Bryan Ling, and Mike Luba, premiered at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival where it won the 2011 SXSW Film Festival Audience Award. To purchase your copy on BlueRay/DVD, download on iTunes or receive more information or updates on local screenings, check the Big Easy Express website: HERE!