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Read More The White Buffalo - a powerful and prolific storyteller through his songcraft, the Emmy-nominated, Oregon-born, and Southern California-bred singer-songwriter-guitarist Jake Smith, aka The White Buffalo released his first-ever live album A Freight Train Through The Night, in September 2024.
Smith describes the new live album A Freight Train Through The Night "This album spans my entire career, over 20-plus years of writing and performing songs. With more than a hundred songs to choose from, some of these tracks I wrote in my 20s, and others were born just years ago. We selected crowd favourites and some deep cuts to give them a new life." He adds, "We also did a completely reworked adaptation of the song House of the Rising Sun. I wanted to establish a definitive version that was all our own, and representative of our sound giving a fresh alternative to the original "Sons of Anarchy" show version. This album has all the emotion and passion of the live experience, its visceral, in a way that cant be attained in the studio. What we do live is wildly different than studio albums. Pure and raw, no backing tracks, no auto tune, and not perfect, its the three of us giving it our all, us in our purest form."
A Freight Train Through The Night was recorded live on March 1, and 2 at the Belly-Up in San Diego and finds The White Buffalo reteam with his band including Christopher Hoffee (bass/keys/guitars), and Matt Lynott (drums). The group brought in Mike Butler (The Rolling Stones, Reba McEntire, Phoebe Bridgers) to record and mix the live album. Smith says, "You can feel the energy of the audience, that circular push and pull, between crowd and stage. Its unique every night, every show. Its that love and flow that feeds all of us. We are in it together and you can really feel it in these recordings. We have a long history with the Belly-Up and brought in Mike Butler to capture the audio and mix, so this album sounds like you are in the room."
Named after a line from the song "How the West Was Won," the new live album A Freight Train Through The Night encapsulates nomadic life and the nights of a traveling musician, as well as the groups own gloves-off approach to their live performances.
Below is The White Buffalos A Freight Train Through The Night double vinyl tracklisting:
Side A
"Oh Darlin What Have I Done"
"Set My Body Free"
"Come Join The Murder"
"Highwayman"
Side B
"Rocky"
"BB Guns and Dirt Bikes"
"House Of The Rising Sun"
"Wish It Was True"
Side C
"How The West Was Won"
"Love Song #1"
"I Am The Light"
"Into The Sun"
Side D
"The Whistler"
"Problem Solution"
"The Pilot"
"I Got You"
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