Via Edward Sharpe e-mail subscription

This April, Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show will embark on a tour unlike any in recent memory. Traveling exclusively in vintage railcars, the three bands will journey across the American Southwest over the course of a week. The aptly titled Railroad Revival Tour will feature the three bands playing concerts at six unique outdoor locations along the route, beginning April 21st in Oakland, California.

The Railroad Revival train is 1,500 feet long and consists of 15 vintage railcars from the 1950s and 60s, pulled by two locomotives. The bands will eat, sleep, and record on the train as they travel across the American Southwest, bringing their collaborative vision to fans from California to New Orleans. The bands will have equal billing and equal time on stage, in an environment that encourages creativity and cross-pollination. The entire tour will be the focus of a documentary that captures the spirit of the journey and gives intimate insights into the creative process.

When asked about the inspiration for putting on a tour like this, Alex Ebert of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros commented, "From hobos to the wild west, trains have always been a fascination of mine. This tour is going to be rad."

Tickets to The Railroad Revival Tour go on sale to the public Wednesday, March 9th at 9 am PST at http://railroadrevivaltour.com . An exclusive pre-sale will be available Tuesday, March 8 at 9 am PST via the links below using the provided pre-sale codes. Each ticket will include an MP3 download of live recordings from the tour as well as a commemorative ticket custom-designed for each site, with no additional service fees.

The Railroad Revival Tour Dates and Pre-Sale links:
April 21 Oakland, CA @ Middle Harbor Shoreline Park (Ticket Pre-Sale Link) Code: 89TTPM
April 22 San Pedro, CA @ Ports O'Call Village (Ticket Pre-Sale Link) Code: WSX5MS
April 23 Chandler, AZ @ Arizona Railway Museum (Ticket Pre-Sale Link) Code: WS3GQH
April 24 Marfa, TX @ El Cosmico (Ticket Pre-Sale Link) Code: ACLYCG
April 26 Austin, TX @ 4th and Waller (Ticket Pre-Sale Link) Code: ZBTGLN
April 27 New Orleans, LA @ Woldenberg Park (Ticket Pre-Sale Link) Code: VUFM2N

[Edited on 3-7-2011 by JPG]

That's it. I'm quitting my job and hopping on that train.

Quote: Originally posted by imarob2

That's it. I'm quitting my job and hopping on that train.

ok, i really want to go to this. but i just got on to buy tickets....i knew they'd be expensive but.....$55 dollhairs for the crummier ticket?!!? am i cheap, or is this expensive? ahhhh i remember when i saw them for free at sxsw....i wanna goo sooooo badddddd

i don't have enough doll hairs in my life?!?!?!!? am i cheap or is this expensive? i don't remember the last time i paid that much for a show. personally, i blame the grammy-playing mumford & sons.

i want to go sooo baddddd.

i think i need to break up with my average boyfriend and find a rich old man to fund all of my musical desires. we should all do that, in fact.

hahahaha, i would totally go if i LIVED NEAR THERE. frickin rip off.
yeah it's expensive, but i'd pay at least for one ticket.

Let's all pool together to buy one of the expensive ones so we can get the recordings at least.

so we share the recordings....but....WHO ATTENDS THE SHOW?


dum dum dum. that shit would get ALLLLLLLLLL lord of the flies.

It would be the person closest to the venue to attend the show in my eyes.

Quote: Originally posted by imarob2

Let's all pool together to buy one of the expensive ones so we can get the recordings at least.

I like this.

Quote: Originally posted by acalliopemusical

so we share the recordings....but....WHO ATTENDS THE SHOW? dum dum dum. that shit would get ALLLLLLLLLL lord of the flies.

hahahhaha

Quote: Originally posted by acalliopemusical

so we share the recordings....but....WHO ATTENDS THE SHOW? dum dum dum. that shit would get ALLLLLLLLLL lord of the flies.

for realz!

Good god. The last one that was in town was only 25 dollars >.<

Quote: Originally posted by Sarbear

It would be the person closest to the venue to attend the show in my eyes.

BRILLIANT idea! i'm not naming names but.......... her names carrie and she has two thumbs. (if you could see my cheeky gesture you'd giggle.)

i mean, do we thinks we could get a sssacfatap (that is to say, a super secret special access code for all the awesome people---"awesome people" of course being...us.)

I'm pretty sure you made up that confusing acronym...

it isn't confusing in the least if you know your ABC's! come on, i'm from texas and even I can get it! haha. do you need to see the jort-budweiser pic again?

Hahaha! Im actually going to make my own version of that photo, but it's not quite jorts weather in michigan yet, sadly.

What exactly would the sssacfatap DO?

i can not wait to see that for real. you need to bring it to texas and float the river with us. the river is the best place to effortlessly humiliate yourself. it's magic, really.

the sssacfatap would allow us "special access" to the railroad revival recordings, of course! that shit sold out so fast, now all the rich a-holes are selling them for $200. how do they sleep at night? moreover, why didn't i think of that? i keed i keed. but seriously.

listen to the (too little too late) plan that i made up in my brain just now: we could have bought all the tickets, sold them at vomitingly high prices, used the money to buy the best video equipment ever, made a video of the magnetic zeros on the train, then sold the videos, then used the dollars to build a house where we could all live, with the band of course, out of cupcakes (or some other awesomely impractical material), and lived happily ever after.

but that's only if we were a-holes.

That's quite the plan there. I was born a rich a-hole, so I don't feel like partaking.

Shouldn't you be hard at work typing something important?

don't you mean "shouldn't you be at worked receiving the equivalent of the dementor's kiss?"

sorry i really like harry potter.

i'm listening to baby on a plane on repeat. by the way.

What a great song. Who is harry potter? Is he in a band?

Harry Potter? That got my attention.

hahhaha whata song
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Aaron's piano. AWWW.
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