{"id":10473,"date":"2016-02-12T11:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2016-02-12T11:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T18:16:38","slug":"railroad-earth-an-up-close-look-at-a-hard-working-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/2016\/02\/railroad-earth-an-up-close-look-at-a-hard-working-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Railroad Earth: An up-close look at a hard-working band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10474\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 771px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"addboard wp-image-10474 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/Railroad-Earth-771x406.jpg\" alt=\"RE\" width=\"771\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Railroad-Earth.jpg 771w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Railroad-Earth-336x177.jpg 336w, https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/Railroad-Earth-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Railroad Earth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bethany Schatzke, who had been writing about music for The Billings Outpost until it <a href=\"http:\/\/lastbestnews.com\/site\/2016\/01\/outpost-suspends-publication-crisp-to-join-last-best-news\/\">recently ceased publication<\/a>, is continuing her endeavors on her own blog, and this week has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/bld-in-mt.blogspot.com\/2016\/02\/an-interview-with-john-skehan-and-my.html\">a good story<\/a> about Railroad Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how she describes the band, which is opening a swing through Montana with a show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babcocktheater.com\/event.php?event=249&amp;month=02&amp;year=2016\">the Babcock Theatre<\/a> next Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The New Jersey based sextet is a sort of musical chameleon going from rock to bluegrass to folk to tribal to &#8230; something delightfully indescribable, something uniquely Railroad Earth. \u00a0No other labels needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bethany bases her story on an interview with\u00a0mandolin player John Skehan, who had a lot say about the band members&#8217; performance style, their perpetual touring and their attitude toward free music-sharing. If you&#8217;re a fan of Railroad Earth, you&#8217;ll find this fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>If you know nothing or little about the band, dig in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethany Schatzke, who had been writing about music for The Billings Outpost until it recently ceased publication, is continuing her endeavors on her own blog, and this week has posted a good story about Railroad Earth. Here&#8217;s how she describes the band, which is opening a swing through Montana with a show at the Babcock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[178,3800,3799],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-babcock-theatre","tag-bethany-schatzke","tag-railroad-earth","prominence-category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montana-mint.com\/lastbestnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}