Freight train rabbit killer band birthday
Wichita, KS!!!
Haymaker Records will help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the doom blues group Freight Train Rabbit Killer with a series of concerts and the release of a....
Originally published on KCUR > Arts & Life by Frank Morris on October 20, 2023 ...
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Ten years ago on a cold dark night of the soul, Freight Train Rabbit Killer began its life as a scary band/opera/near-death experience for Kansas City music fans.
It's a birthday for the PSB rhythm sections better half!!This Halloween season, there's a flurry of live shows to celebrate their new record.
Just before Halloween 10 years ago, Kris Bruders and Mark Smeltzer forged Freight Train Rabbit Killer around a love of hardscrabble American music.
The stuff they play is crashing, heavy blues, swirled with dark opera and the devil.
Freight Train Rabbit Killer songs tend towards an Old Testament sweep, and there aren’t a lot of happy endings. Like in “Saw Brother Judas,” about that time Judas was trying to hide from God.
Freight Train Rabbit Killer is more than a band, though.
It’s