For several years, blues music enthusiast, frontman and guitarist Jimbo "Big Train" Madsen has taken blues fans on a weekly ...

Train’s Pat Monahan had just belted out the opening chorus to “Meet Virginia,” his band’s 1998 hit, when he paused mid-song Thursday night and posed a question to everyone at PNC Music Pavilion.

Just before Halloween 10 years ago, Bruders and Smeltzer forged Freight Train Rabbit Killer around a love of hardscrabble American music. The stuff they play is crashing, heavy blues, swirled with ...

A growing trend in concert venues is to put a bunch of musicians on a moving train, invite the public and host a moving festival. Music on a train was documented in the film “Festival Express,” which ...

BRAINERD — Blues Train will take the stage for the summer’s last Performances in the Park concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29, in Gregory Park in Brainerd. Blues Train is a trio of Brainerd lakes area ...

The rise of blues rock in the 1960s propelled acts like Otis Redding and the Rolling Stones to legendary status, and 1965 was ...