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The Schenectady Daily Gazette
Monday,
July 19, 2010
Michael Hochananadel - Review of Sunday's Music Haven
Show.
.....at Schenectady's Central Park
Fresh from tearing it up at the Grey Fox Bluegrass
Festival
on
Thursday, Albany's own Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys
did
the same in a
too-short opener sparkling with caffienated bluegrass
riffing,
front porch harmonies and Gaudet's gem-like songwriting.
In "Born To Be Lonesome" -- lively and
mournful at once -- he
lamented, "It ain't lookin' good, this gettin' over
you," then the Boys
rolled
it fast on down the tracks. In "The Only
One," he exulted "I
know,
you know, you're the only one." Apart from
"The Battle Of
New
Orleans", spiced with precise acapella harmonies,
everything
was
original. But it all felt bedrock deep in conviction,
musical roots
and
skill. Gaudet and The Boys have tremendous skill.
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