DESCRIPTION:
Recorded live at Earth Analog Studios in Tolono, IL with Austin Thompson of CRC (Chicago Recording Company) December 6th, 2014

Directed and edited by John Isberg
Director of Photography - Chad Olson
1st Assistant Cameraman - Thomas Nicol

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Band Bio- (from regorego.com/home)

"A singer-songwriter talking about trains. Here we go
again,” Rebecca Rego cackles, acknowledging the cliche she and her new
band, The Trainmen, have not so inadvertently fallen into.

The Wisconsin native even dubbed her debut outing with
Kankakee County Musicians Matt Yeates (drums), Eric Fitts (bass, mandolin),
and Cory Ponton (guitar, banjo) after a downstate village built around the Illinois
Central Railroad, where the street signs bear the names of its revered
employees.

But instead of waxing nostalgically about whistles blowing
in the distance and the sweaty ol’ heave-ho employed all the livelong day, the
10 sparkling tracks on Tolono reflect Rego’s migration from her six years as a
bartender/performer in bustling Chicago to a new beginning as a performer/wife
in languid Champaign.

Inspired by Dave Grohl’s love letter to analog, Rego
stumbled upon Matt Talbott’s Earth Analog Studio where the band
spent three candle-burning days and nights laying down Tolono’s tracks live to
tape on the kind of “magical” board (on loan from Steve Albini’s
Chicago-based studio, Electrical Audio) the Foo Fighters frontman salivated
over in Sound City.

In the end, Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen achieved the
“tangible” sound she envisioned in her head during the last year of
writing. “How am I going to make
this come across as clear as it does when I’m actually standing in front of
people playing these songs” is something she’s asked before stepping into
the studio on each of her previous four records (2012′s Seconds, 2011 EP All These Bones and Us, 2009′s
From The Royal Arcade, and 2007 solo debut Learning To Be Lonely). “And that’s what Earth Analog was.”

Likening her Trainmen trio to Bob Dylan’s The Band, she also
credits the lifelong buddies with coloring in the contours of Tolono’s most
tender moments and elevating the rambunctious ones. “They all have such a
good idea of what a song needs. They aren’t trying to overshadow each other and
I think their friendship helps that,” she says.

Feisty first single, “John Wayne” chugs along,
propelled by Ponton’s rumbling banjo and Rego’s scene-setting purr, in tribute
to her grandfather, a World War II veteran who returned home to build
bars in Milwaukee for a living. “There’s sort of a weird mysticism about fathers
’cause they had their own separate lives away from their families,” she discerns.

Midwestern ideals, small town luxuries, and family make up
the DNA of Tolono and Rebecca Rego & The Trainmen. She sums it up best
when trying to explain the back-porch swaying first track, “Call My
Mother.”

“You feel indebted to your family and your grandparents
. . . you’re trying to show them gratitude for raising you and making you into
a person, but I don’t think it’s ever enough. You’re never going to be able to
do it.”

You’re only obligated to try."

Booking/Management:

Selby Street Booking
John Worth
Selbystreetbooking (at) gmail (dot) com

Management
mgmt (at) rebeccaregoandthetrainmen.com

instagram.com/rebeccaregoandthetrainmen