Michael Hunton’s New Release “Catch That Train” is a keeper!

You could not find a more travelin’ ramblin’ collection of sounds and songs than Michael Hunton’s debut release “Catch That Train.”


Click here for Michael’s website and music.


His articulate banjo playing and road traveling-true lyrics are the key for making this cd a real keeper. Whether it’s a road trip to New Orleans two days after graduation (Mango Man Steve, that was fun), cross country trek to New York from Ventura with your dog, or just the daily mush to the office… you can easily get lost in the music and feel the freedom and despair (these songs are not all shits and giggles) only imagined by most of the box car riders.


The liner notes make a great point about the “prayer-like lyrics” and engaging the listening in a “migrant life”. Men have been running from troubled times and unfaithful ladies for many moons… a timeless theme.


The vocal effect reminds of seeing Les Claypool play through his big scratchy old fashioned microphone.


The more I listen, the more I like(y). The theme of finding one’s home (wherever that may be) is always something that intrigues me and distracts me from the grind.


I must say, “Riverside Blues” is my favorite track. Like the master of traveling music Captain Jorma, Michael talks about “washing the blues away” in the river.


Kudos too for modernizing the traveling blues about being in the LIRR and in NYC’s “old streets” without leaving character in “Running Blues”… “That concrete sidewalk moves beneath my feet. But I’m getting tired.”


You can hear Michael’s new songs on Sirius (or his website), or better yet support an artist, and buy the cd.


Catch Michael at Cafe Nine (“The Musician’s Living Room”) in New Haven on May 12.  I’m sure I’ll see Crazy CT Dave G there!