A rather informal jam session in New Jersey back in 2001 led to the inception of Railroad Earth. On the strength of a demo tape that would later become their superb studio debut, Black Bear Sessions, ...

Singer/songwriter Todd Sheaffer has had quite the month. The weekend before Thanksgiving, Sheaffer’s primary band Railroad Earth played three shows at Boulder, CO’s Fox Theatre. On the second night of ...

“Have you ever heard the Paul McCartney story of ‘Yesterday,’ where his original lyrics were ‘Scrambled Eggs’?” Todd Sheaffer, having stumbled on a better way to describe his songwriting process, asks ...

The Jersey-based bluegrass-jam band Railroad Earth will perform at the Community Theatre in Morristown on Saturday, but will spend much of the next two months at music festivals. Rock festivals, folk ...

In separate interviews, Todd Sheaffer and Patrick Fitzsimmons both used the word "strange" — but also the word "natural" — to describe their gig last month at New York’s Mercury Lounge. They and ...

Well-versed in rambling around, as you might expect from a band named after a Jack Kerouac poem, the New Jersey-built jam-grass engine Railroad Earth has let no moss grow under its rustic wheels.

No one would know all the tribulations that influenced “It’s So Good,” the latest track from bluegrass rockers Railroad Earth upon first listen. Upbeat—even cheerful—the track was inspired by how a ...

Railroad Earth was born out of jamming. Or at least out of jam sessions. The New Jersey-based acoustic rock sextet came into existence when signer-songwriter Todd Sheaffer sat in on a series of ...

Since the advent of the COVID era, more and more touring musicians have been stepping off the live-music industry treadmill and venturing into the up-close-and-personal realm of intimate living-room ...

Down but not yet out, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. of Scranton faces watershed moment in bid for re-election against Republican Dave McCormick Down but not yet out, Democratic Sen. Bob Casey Jr. of ...