If you’re looking for an album that avoids all the well-worn grooves and eye-rolling tropes of country music, “Hum of the Road” by Tylor and the Train Robbers is sure to sit right with you.
Great songwriters know how be both a reflector of our current times, and a beacon to our better angels. Tylor takes a keen awareness to the challenges this past year has presented, and instead of adding to the noise, attempts to offer a roadmap through it, or antidotes to it all.
Talk of train robbery isn’t just for marketing purposes here. Tylor Ketchum is direct kin with Tom “Black Jack” Ketchum, who was a notorious train robber originally from Texas. But as opposed to Outlaw country, the best way to describe the sound of Tylor & the Train Robbers would be a version of Texas or Red Dirt country.