Savannah, this is one holiday event you wont want to miss. Come out to the American Legion Ballroom on Friday, December 16th for a rare opportunity to see three of your favorite local bands share the same stage. This show will feature The Accomplices, Niche, and The Train Wrecks. Doors open at 7pm and the music kicks off at 8pm. There will be a cash bar for all of your libation needs and there is an ATM downstairs just in case you forget the cash money. Unopened, unwrapped toys will be collected at the door to benefit Toys for Tots.  The bands will all have their merchandise available for purchase as well so you can get all those stocking suffers for your friends (or for yourself if your not in the giving mood). The Legion is located at 1108 Bull St. Just south of the Forsyth park. You can get your advance tickets at Civvie’s on Broughton St, as well as at Primary Art and thetrainwrecksband.com  Tickets are $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Come ring in the holidays with your favorite sounds of music. Looking forward to seeing you all there as we rock the night away !

Running, Rocking and Traveling

Making music

We are finally getting a break from the heat and beginning to think about all of the things the Fall has to offer. We are excited about our upcoming shows both in Savannah area and elsewhere. We are continuing to sell our new album ‘Saddle Up’ at all of our live shows as well as some new merchandise we are gonna debut in the Fall. Thank you to all of the fans who have already purchased ‘Saddle Up’ and for those of you who have not yet, we have the album available for download on itunes and amazon and hard copies can be purchased via thetrainwrecksband.com and at all of our live shows.

Rock and Roll Marathon

The Train Wrecks are honored to be playing at the Rock and Roll Marathon in Savannah on November 5th. This huge event travels city to city featuring local bands through out the race, and then a headlining concert at the end of the race. We are excited to have been chosen to play on the main stage opening for headliner Carolina Liar. 25,000 people have signed up to run in the marathon and we are looking forward to entertaining each and every one of them. This event is sold out so hopefully you secured a spot to run but if not stop by the park anyways and see what all of the excitements about.

Coastal tour 2011

 
We are excited to be stopping through some of our favorite cities in November. Our tour begins in Charleston, SC at The Mill. This is a really cool spot and we cant wait to get back there again. The next night we head a little farther North up the coast to Wilmington NC to the Satellite Bar and Lounge. This is our first stop in Wilmington so if you leave nearby or know people that do let them know that we are coming through town for one night only on this trip, but we plan on coming back soon. We are heading back to one of the best restaurants and bars on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Kelly’s Gingernut Pub for a rockin’ Friday night. This town knows how to rock and never lets us down. It feels good to be heading back. We will close out the weekend in Hampton Virginia. Saturday night we are playing at the Taphouse. This is music lover’s venue. With the best beers on tap and great eats for all this is the perfect place to spend the night enjoying the music. On Sunday we will be just up the road at the Conch and Bucket for a daytime show so if you want to bring the family out this is guaranteed to be a great time.

We hope to see you throughout the Fall at various locations. Come say hello after the show and pick up some new merchandise.

Hot off the presses

THE TRAIN WRECKS

Saddle Up

“We get loud but we never get bored,” Jason Bible sings in “Tennessee Mare,” the opening track on the Train Wrecks’ just–released second album. That’s a pretty good summation of the entire Train Wrecks experience – raucous and perpetually in overdrive, Savannah’s premiere Americana band is never anything but exciting. The band’s live shows are loud, and by God, you won’t get close to bored.

Bible and his bandmates have been playing most of these songs in concert for a year or more, so anyone who’s caught a Train Wrecks show (and since they’re gigging all the time, it’s a distinct possibility) will recognize the galloping “Tennessee Mare,” the defiant Western stomps “Head For the Hills” and “Hang Me High,” the sweeping and pseudo–psychedelic “Southern Skies” and the elegiac “Not the End.” The band submits balls–out rock ‘n’ roll, and Western swing. There’s even a haunting, uptempo instrumental, “Song For Sally.”

The album has been produced with pointed accents on reverb and echo, with a cloud of poignant pedal steel guitar floating somewhere in the moody sky – giving everything a ghostly, urgent, desperate feel. And that’s perfect for these songs about recklessness, redemption and righteousness.

The Train Wrecks’ power source, of course, is the knuckle–tight rhythm section of drummer Marcus Kuhlmann and bassist Eric Dunn. And Stuart Harmening’s dobro, slide guitar and chicken–picking leads give the songs a muscular and cohesive flex.

But it’s singer/songwriter Bible that makes Saddle Up ride tall from start to finish. His gravelly Texas yowl and growl evoke a world–weary outlaw on the run, a cowboy questioning his place in the world, a young Southerner obsessed with whiskey, war and the unfettered joy of making music. “Cold, Cold Stone” is the album’s stunner – it’s both anthemic and chilling.

Recorded at Savannah’s Elevated Basement Studio, Saddle Up joins Eric Culberson’s In the Outside – also tracked in the Basement – as the cornerstones of an already great year for homegrown music. See thetrainwrecksband.com

Hello friends and fans,

We are so excited to announce our new album ‘Saddle Up’ is finally in our hands to share with all of you. We worked long and hard on these songs and we think they turned out just right ! We want to thank everyone for the support during the making of this album. Thanks especially to Kevin Rose and Miles Hendrix at Elevated Basement Studios, Terry Manning for the mastering work, and Jen Berndt for the amazing album artwork. Drop by our facebook page and let us know what you think. If you have not already, grab a copy here and get to listening already. We have a lot exciting shows coming up, so now that the sun is shining dust off those dancing shoes and come see us rock!

Looking forward to bringing more good music your way.

We are pleased to announce the plans for New Years Eve. The Tybee Island Social Club will be having a bash with a live show by The Train Wrecks. To kick off the night they are offering dinner with two seating’s for a three course dinner. The first at 6PM and the second at 9PM. They  will also have an oyster bar with select vodka, champagne. and special dipping sauces. During dinner there will be music by the Savannah Philharmonic String Quartet followed by the rockin’ tunes of The Train Wrecks starting at 11 PM. There will be a pause to watch the fireworks at midnight and then the band will rock for the rest of the night into the new year. Call Social at 912-472-4044 to reserve your seats to this very special night ! We look forward to bringing in 2011 with all of you !!! See you on Tybee !!!

The Train Wrecks were honored to be selected to entertain at this years Savannah Bridge Run. The band is not used to being awake that early in the morning, much less playing their hearts out before noon, but it was a great event. Their tunes filled the streets of Savannah as they entertained the sold out crowd of 5,000.  Thank you to everyone who came out and made this such a huge success. We love Savannah and we will get out of bed early anytime to play for the best fans in the world. We will see you soon either on the road or here in our own hometown. Thanks for all of the love and support.

Wow !!! We are excited and honored to announce that we have been chosen to open for B.B King at the Johnny Mercer Theater on September 29th.

“It has been estimated that blues great B.B.King has played more than 10,000 shows in a career spanning nearly 65 years. Whenever the King of the Blues has carried his venerable guitar Lucille onto any stage at anytime, the performance has become an unforgettable classic-and on occasion has been immortalized.

From the Rock and Roll Hall of fame to the presidentia; Medal freedom to Rolling Stone ranking him #3 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, B.B. King clearly ranks as one of the great legends in the world of music”

The Thrill is Back in Savannah !!

Click here to purchase  : B.B.King Tickets

B.B.King LIVE………….A NIght to remember

WE CAN”T WAIT !!!

Related show

• Artist: The Train Wrecks
• : September Shows
• Date: Wed Sep 29th
• Time: 7:30pm
• City: The Train Wrecks in Savannah, GA
• Venue: Johnny Mercer Theater
• Address: Civic Center-on the corner of Liberty and Montgomery St.
• Venue phone: 912- 651-6556
• Country: United States
• Admission: $45-$65
• Age restrictions: All Ages
• Notes: The Train Wrecks are opening for the Guitar Legend B.B.King
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We are really pleased to announce that the Train Wrecks are featured on the cover of this weeks Connect Savannah with a great article written by Bill DeYoung, ‘Runaway Train Wreck’ This will get you fans a good long look into the band. It includes it all……the good, the bad, and the ugly. Only truth here folks ! WE hope you enjoy this article as much as we did and we thank you all for the continuing support of this band. Come out and catch one of our shows this weekend and hear the songs the article talks about.

Hey there Train Wrecks fans. We are super excited to announce that our webstore is  now officially open. Yep that’s right you can now have your Train Wrecks merch delivered right to your front door. We have some great t-shirts to choose from as well as some fun stuff like stickers and pins. We are going to be adding more so keep checking back from time. If you don’t already own a copy, now is your chance to purchase the Train Wrecks first album ‘Whiskey and War’. This will be just enough to get you hooked and as excited about the new album (coming soon) as we are. We have some trucker hats on order so keep watch for those as well as some great posters that we will be offering soon!!

We are using the flat rate shipping to guarantee you will get your merch in a timely manner and be able to have delivery confirmation that can be tracked. If you ever have any special requests for Train Wrecks merch or have questions about a particular product shoot us an e-mail at webstore@thetrainwrecksband.com . We will try our hardest to help. You can of course buy the merch at all of our live shows and if we run out of anything we will re order on a regular basis so don’t loose hope if we are out of your size or color option. We look forward to meeting you at the shows or mailing the merch to you!!! Thanks for your support!!!

Our new shirts and stickers will be here before we know it so keep checkin’ back on the site to get yours first. We will be happy to mail them to you anywhere in the world. Thanks for all of your support !
Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World

The Train Wrecks