Tag: ex-Blues Project

I saw Sea Train in Cleveland in 1968—they did everything very well but nothing made me want to get up and dance. They had an odd origin story. The Blues Project wanted to break up, but they owed Verve Forecast another record. Those folks who were there at the end recorded Planned Obsolescence (funny, I think), then made this record as Sea Train. Their second album was named Seatrain (one word). That’s just confusing. Their music checked every box. Blues—heck, they were the Blues Project, doing Two Trains Running and Louisiana and mojos. Jazz—they were playing fusion before it was cool. Prog rock–they opened for Traffic on one tour. Let The Duchess No sounds like Bob Wills—Richard Greene was an excellent fiddler. I have thought I heard their stuff in the ‘70s as intro for local news shows and as a soundtrack for low-budget documentaries.