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Just when you thought Nashville had gone Country, Grammy award winner Train rolled into town for three days and rattled our Southern roots. The band played Nashville's legendary Exit/In, home to one-time rock gods Jimi Hendrix and Taj Mahal, and sold out the venue on the first two nights.
Appropriately, the band (Jimmy Stafford, guitars; Pat Monahan, vocals; Scott Underwood, drums; Charlie Colin, bass, vocals; and Tony Lopaschinsky, keyboards, guitar, vocals) began with "Counting On You," one of the first songs they ever penned. The follow-up was, "Calling All Angels," from their latest release My Private Nation, the album's lead single which has been well received by fans and Corporate radio - driving the song to the top five on Billboard's Modern Rock charts. The band tastefully covered Otis Redding's "Hard to Handle," and the crowd let themselves go, singing the entire chorus each time.
Before playing "I'm About To Come Alive," Monahan quipped that the song was written for "all the housewives in America," women everywhere that carry the burden of feeling unimportant as they continue to manage one of the hardest jobs in the world - efficiently running a home. But then, just as Train had slowed down to let the crowd catch their collective breath, Monahan's mouth exhaled the sanctimonious words, "Way Down Inside..." as the band broke into their popular version of Led Zeppelin's "Ramble On." Monahan took this song to its fullest potential and the band played it to its entirety, even breaking into an aside of Lou Reed's "Walk On the Wild Side."
The second set featured crowd favorites like, "Virginia," "Save the Day" and "Free," their first number one hit from 1998. It's obvious that Train is heavily influenced by 70's and 80's Industry Rock as they covered Aerosmith's "Dream On". No one wanted to go home, probably not even Train, and the band played an extensive five-song encore including Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On?" In addition, unbeknown to the crowd in attendance, Train was taping the entire first set only to release burned copies to their fans as they exited the venue at the end of the show. Surprise!
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