Back on the Train [Import]

Electric Bluebirds | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 23, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Diamond Recordings
• ASIN: B000007YNL
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #793,240 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Back on the Train

2. Trouble With Me

3. Alligator Man

4. Tell It Like It Is

5. I Don't Need You

6. City Limits

7. La Vie Malheureuse

8. A Stranger's Just a Friend

9. The Money's All Gone

10. Dixieland Rock

11. Dark Hollow

12. Un Mojada Sin Licencia

13. Rockin' and Rollin' With Gran'maw

14. Sad Memory

15. Delia

16. Colinda

17. Careless Love

18. Bluebird Two-Step

19. You Don't Miss Your Water

20. Allons y Lafayette

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A fine reprise, June 5, 2003

By 

Louis Dobson (Santa Barbara De Nexe, Portugal) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Back on the Train (Audio CD)

The Electric Bluebirds were a well known pub band in London in the early 80s. Bizarrely, they ended up adopting a Cajun style, and a unique most un-London swirling accordian / fiddle mix.

They released an eponymously titled album in 85 or so, which sank without trace partly because the band had effectively already split, partly because it got no airplay but mainly because the record company went bust.

I bought it at the time and played it to death - it was quite brilliant. Everyone who heard it promptly ran off to try and find a copy (which was not easy).

Most (all?) of the original album is on this CD, along with some earlier pub stuff which they clearly like and I don't, much.

Frankly, if the idea of a Cajun band from Deptford appeals in any way, then buy it. I cannot praise it too highly, and finding it has almost stopped me missing my Linn Sondek.