Artist: Last Train Home
Record Review from web archive February 4, 2009
Eric Brace & Peter Cooper
Famous journalistic tag-teams more commonly are known for uncovering the dark deeds of politicians and other known criminals, not covering the gems from their friends’ songbooks. But neither Eric Brace nor Peter Cooper is a musical novice: Cooper, music critic for Nashville daily The Tennessean, delivered a well-received debut disc last year, Mission Door; and [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #69 May-June 2007
Last Train Home – Last Good Kiss
It’s not for nothing that one of the largest photos on this CD’s jacket is that of a vacated plastic chair, the kind you might find at a bus terminal or, ahem, train station. Many of the album’s songs are about someone leaving or at least wrestling with the idea of doing so. And contrary [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #58 July-Aug 2005
Last Train Home – Bound Away
Last Train Home combines various American music forms — country, blues, jazz, etc. — with band enough members to field a softball team. The songs on Bound Away, written mostly by leader Eric Brace, largely evoke a back-roads feeling of melancholy and searching. “Dogs On The East Side”, highlighted by Kevin Cordt’s gloomy trumpet, visits [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Last Train Home – Time And Water
The narrator of this album’s opening cut seems to have given up lithium in favor of Ritalin. He’s wired, he’s been dumped, and he lets us know in a herky-jerky tune that could be the bastard issue of a tryst between Johnny Rotten and Ronnie Dunn. If there are 50 ways to leave your lover, [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #44 March-April 2003
Last Train Home / Roger Wallace / ’52 Pickup – Falls Church Duckpin Bowling Center (Falls Church, VA)
For almost two years, singer-songwriter Brian McGuire has once a month turned this 1960s-era, 32-lane duckpin bowling alley into a makeshift honky-tonk as part of his Bop ‘n’ Bowl series, booking nationally known acts (Rosie Flores, Bill Kirchen) and regional ones (Billy Hancock, the Ultra Kings) with the emphasis on roots rock and rockabilly. Bowling [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #26 March-April 2000
Last Train Home – Those were the days
If this were 1972, Last Train Home would have a multi-album deal with a major like Warner Bros. or Columbia. But today, the subtleties of the band’s music — buttery harmonies, aching melodies flecked with homey strains of harmonica, mandolin and steel guitar — couldn’t be further out of fashion. Ditto the quiet desperation of [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #15 May-June 1998
Last Train Home – Self-Titled
It’s always a pleasure to discover artists whose works infiltrate your mind with quiet grace. And so it was with the eponymous debut of Last Train Home, a twang-pop group from the Washington, D.C., area with songs smooth and safe enough for mainstream country, yet laden with thoughtful and intelligent lyrics. The five-piece band is [...]
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