Press | Railroad Revival Tour 2012

San Francisco Examiner Apr 30 2012

the singer — appearing this week in Oakland with the band, promoting its upcoming gospel-fervent sophomore recording “Here” — says he was spoiled by last year’s unusual Railroad Revival Tour.

Wired Apr 27 2012

“It’s absolutely true. Trains are magical.”

Country Music Television Apr 27 2012

Closing the Nashville Film Festival on Thursday night (April 26), Big Easy Express showed the folk-influenced groups traveling between concerts on vintage railcars while living and making music together on the train.

The Hollywood Reporter Mar 19 2012

“Big Easy Express won the Headliner Audience Award at the 2012 SXSW Film Festival Monday.”

Reuters Mar 18 2012

“Positivity” accurately describes the undercurrent of the film about the Railroad Revival Tour.

Billboard Mar 18 2012

“We’ve written songs as a result of the musical experience we had on the tour.”

Garden & Gun Mar 16 2012

Stick three string-heavy bands on a train together for over 2,000 miles, and let the cameras roll.

Rolling Stone Mar 7 2012

“When I first saw the finished film, it reminded me of what radiant moments live performances can create, and how powerful a group of minds can be when focused on the same goal.”

Hidden Track Feb 9 2012

The entire experience of traveling, living and performing over the course of the six day trip was documented by a film crew, and is now being released as a documentary entitled the Big Easy Express

KROQ Feb 7 2012

Yesterday, the trailer for the film was released and gives us a glimpse at just how awesome that tour really was.

Consequence of Sound Feb 6 2012

When not performing live, the bands ate, slept, and recorded music on some 15 vintage railcars.

NME Feb 6 2012

Mumford and Sons have unveiled the trailer for their new tour film Big Easy Express

Lost at E Minor Dec 27 2011

What a great concept: music and musicians traveling through the great American landscape on a train. Kind of like the circus rolling in to town.

Boston to a T Jun 1 2011

The tour was not so much inspired by some insane push for high-speed rail but it was actually a push for the opposite. ...to try and capture the somehow forgotten romance on the rails.

PopMatters May 18 2011

Railroad Revival was all it had promised to be, not just another concert but an experience.

Huffington Post Apr 29 2011

I was there for the last two days, and I don’t know how they did it all on so little sleep.

Interference Apr 29 2011

This show took me to a place I’ve always been looking for but in reality have always been, if only I just noticed and gave thanks—the place of love and God and friendship and freedom.

Buzzine Apr 28 2011

...this show was a family reunion of sorts, a musical bond forged on the steel rails.

State Apr 28 2011

An amazing party atmosphere end to a wonderful collection of musicians playing a rather unique mini tour of southwestern U.S.A.

Huffington Post Apr 28 2011

I was scanning the San Francisco skyline through a chain-link fence and swigging wine from a plastic cup when I realized I was at one of the cooler shows I’d ever been to.

7x7SF Apr 27 2011

It’ll be a hip swinging’, fist pumpin’, feet stomping’ good time.

Uncommon Music Apr 27 2011

...the band pulled a Fleetwood Mac and invited Austin High’s marching band to join, jamming the stage with drums, horns and lots of feathered caps.

Indigo Music Apr 27 2011

It was like an inspirational and spiritually uplifting jam session, full of mistakes, cursing, and laughter.

Seattle PI Apr 27 2011

The Railroad Revival Tour is something very special, and completely different from anything else happening in music, a throwback to the way musicians used to travel.

Spin Apr 27 2011

The bands get off the train, walk a few feet to the venue, do the show, and then get back on the same train to start the process all over again.

Austin Chronicle Apr 27 2011

Simply put, this was the most ingenious tour idea since Peter & the Wolf’s East Coast sailing trip, right down to the holographic tickets that looked like something from The Polar Express 3D.

State Press Apr 26 2011

It was like a big family event, just set to music that everyone happens to love. It was one of the most refreshing concerts I’ve been to in a long while. The entire premise for the show set it up for being a memorable event.

Best of New Orleans Apr 26 2011

If this sounds like an indie-rock reality show, footage from the train and the tour will fittingly be used for an upcoming documentary.

ADWeek Apr 26 2011

Here are some shots I took at the Railroad Revival Tour stop in Austin, TX on April 26, 2011

Rolling Stone Apr 26 2011

“As soon as we stepped on the train, the magic began.”

Desert Living Today Apr 25 2011

All three acts, Old Crow Medicine Show, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Mumford and Sons gave incredible performances, and the night oozed of 1930′s nostalgia.

AZ Central Apr 24 2011

...the traveling festival, which features bluegrass revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show, the soulful Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and London’s Grammy-winning Mumford & Sons, went off without a hitch, leaving the sold-out crowd breathless for more.

Daily Trojan Apr 24 2011

If nothing else, the tour proves one thing: Music is alive and well, and people, young and old, drunk and sober, will stay standing for five hours just to be a part of that glory.

Phoenix New Times Apr 24 2011

The brotherhood between the members of these bands was easily felt by the crowd, and by the end of the show I was left thinking, “Man, I really want to party with all of those guys.”

Mill Avenue District Apr 23 2011

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.”

LA Weekly Apr 23 2011

“It’s beautiful! And, like, psychotic.” (a friend travelling on the train)

SF Weekly Apr 22 2011

Here’s an idea: Get three great bands together on a sparkly train, haul across the country for a half-dozen shows in unusual outdoor venues, and play your asses off as twilight bathes 8,000-10,000 live-music junkies in a rosy glow.

Rolling Stone Apr 21 2011

Photos: Railroad Revival Tour Kick Off

Rolling Stone Mar 10 2011

“The idea of this train tour is to make stories to tell our kids about it, and even though it’s for only a short time, I think it’s going to feel a lot longer than those seven days.”

Good News Mar 8 2011

The tour seems like it’s built to capture that long-forgotten romance of the rails—the bands will be riding in vintage cars from the 1950s and 1960s, traveling through the great desolation of the American Southwest, eating, sleeping, and recording on the train all the while.

Spin Mar 8 2011

“Woody rode with his fellow drifters around North America; we get to do it with a bunch of other musicians, although not strangers, from different corners of the world,”

Mumford & Sons Mar 7 2011

Well jealz, this sounds spectacular so stop slouching and pounce on a ticket when they go on sale this Wednesday.

Entertainment Weekly Mar 7 2011

Mumford & Sons is bound for glory.

Billboard Mar 7 2011

After enjoying a breakout year and performing at the Grammys,Mumford & Sons will take their victory lap on a rustic railroad alongside Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show.