Lightnin Malcolm, Trainwreck Express

Lightnin Malcolm @10pm, Trainwreck Express @10pm – $12 cover. Doors open @9pm. 21+ only. Trainwreck Express rides the rails of a genre all their own: Funky Tonk. A full-throttle collision of soul, funk and country barreling out of control. Born on the platform, raised in the rail yard, baptized in the caboose waiting for the wrong train. Matt Hubbard, head Pullman on keys, vocals, trombone, and train whistle. Punching tickets in the observation deck, Russell Lee (drums/vocals) and Bobby Perkins (bass). Keeping cool in the reefer, Scrappy Jud Newcomb and Andrew Trube play a little front-porch truth. Their debut album, “Is This Seat Taken? (Live at the Depot)” - Recorded live with no frills, no overdubs, just pure, high-octane chaos. Trainwreck Express doing what they do best, all gas, no brakes, and a guaranteed good time till the next stop. “All aboard!” Before he had any technical vocabulary, before he understood what the blues even was, Lightnin Malcolm was a creature of rhythm, banging on pots, pans, and buckets alongside radio broadcasts, feeling the pulse of something he couldn't yet name. By the time a Muddy Waters tape found its way to him in his early teens, the direction was set. Not rock and roll like his peers. Something older. Something with more weight to it. He describes hearing Waters for the first time: the pride, the beauty, the absolute authority of the man, and knowing, without being able to articulate why, that this was the thing worth chasing.