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John Train w/Rosie McNamara-Jones
March 10, 2020
Rehearsal recording Zoom H4n

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Jon Houlon

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from Rehearsal with Rosie 3​.​10​.​2020, released March 10, 2020
Looking for Hints: Here's one from John Train's debut. Sometime in the 90s, I flew out to LA to visit my pal Andrew and picked up a Guitar Player magazine at the airport. I was interested in it 'cause the cover had a reference to Blood on the Tracks. For years, I had been trying to play songs from that album but they just never sounded right. This was long before the internet where you can find tablature, you-tubes, etc and pretty much learn anything you want these days. The reason my attempts to play songs from BOTT had failed were that Bob was using an alternate tuning on that album (E B E G# B E for all you musos out there) which gave a unique cast to the material. All of this was explained in the magazine. When I got to Andrew's place, I grabbed a guitar he had lying around and put it in the BOTT tuning. Presto! Looking for Hints was one of the first songs of many songs I would end up writing in this mode. Another one called Trains Rollin' By was paired with You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go when we did our No 2 Unalike shows to demonstrate the influence of Blood on the Tracks upon my writing. Hints, however, was linked to Mozambique from Bob's next record, Desire, 'cause I heard a faint echo of its melody in that most peculiar of songs from the Dylan catalogue. - JH

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John Train Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

It's a band, not a person. Country-folk-roots sextet led by Philadelphia singer-songwriter Jon Houlon.

Jon Houlon - vocal, acoustic guitar
Mike Brenner - steel guitar, dobro
Mike Frank - bass
Bill Fergusson - mandolin, bouzouki
Mark Tucker - lap steel,various guitars, piano
Mark Schreiber - drums, shaky things
Steve Demarest - Bass (1997-2013) ... more

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