Non-Typical Find. Tylor & the Train Robbers

One of the few traffic jams I encountered when cruising the Northwest of the U.S., was when rounding Boise, Idaho on route to the Salmon river to do some serious rafting. That is all I know of the town, as we kept on driving. Tylor and the Train Robbers is from Boise and play some good old country (rock) music.

It is the kind of album that I just want to hear every once in a while when in search of a slightly lighter diet from the rock bands I like to listen to and a slightly tougher sound after listening to the truckloads of female singer-songwriters that have presented themselves to me over the past couple of years.

Non-Typical Find is an album that seems to do everything right. Yes, that makes it devoid of any danger or experimentation but when I want to listen to something totally out there, I will put on Tool or Frank Zappa.

Singer Tylor Ketchum has that edge to his voice like a country singer should have, while the Train Robbers hold everything. There's some great country rock electric guitar playing, the kind that seems to be able to play like the devil's on the tail of the guitarist. There's a fiddle, some great pedal steel guitar playing and a warm Hammond organ sound that is able to soothe the soul. While the drummer and the bass player lay a foundation to the softer country side and the more rocking side of the band.

Should you invite me to compare, I'd start with Grayson Capps, except that his voice has more than an extra edge over Tylor Ketchum's. Musically certainly the two can play a musical match and may the best win.

Non-Typical Find is album that pleases. Among other reasons because it ranges far and wide. The country side of The Rolling Stones shimmers in some of the songs, while elements of the better songs from The Dillard-Clark Experience and The Flying Burrito Brothers are in there as well. Add a reference to some of the finer singer-songwriters of the 70s and the picture becomes clearer.

As I wrote Tylor & The Train Robbers, with producer Cody Brown, did a lot of things just right. If you like this kind of music, check the album out for those days that you just want to relax and listen to the right kind of music to do just that.

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