Trailer Radio, from Brooklyn, NY.

Country Music from the Hipster Capitol of the East Coast?

Yup. It’s the self-titled Trailer Radio

Review by Kurt Gobang

Today we are digging into a self titled release from Trailer Radio. This is a female fronted country band out of Brooklyn, New York. Yes you heard me correctly. A country band…from Brooklyn. Does that make sense to you? Nope, me neither. But, I’m not here to judge music based off of geographic location, I judge music based off of what I hear, and what I hear is this: lots of tele twang, chickin’ pickin’, and some good ‘ole southern redneck rhythms. The musicianship on this record is perdy guhd, howevah, it didn’t exactly light me up and make me wanna shoot shit ‘n hollar. At best, it was very generic.

What did impress me was the guitar playing. The downside though, the song writing could’ve been a bit more clever and it would’ve been nice to hear more range out of the singing. I’ll tell you what though, I’d be willing to bet that Trailer Radio would be a fun band to see live as the songs did have a tongue in cheek, humorous element to them. Upon listening my advice is this, stay in Brooklyn y’all, because if you guys ever make it down south….you might juss get lynched. That’s just my opinion, and I ain’t a fan much of country. Here’s what I really do appreciate though, a portion of the sale of every CD will be donated to the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center for cancer research, and that’s cool with me. I like to see bands supporting a cause and I hope that’s a trend that will catch on with other bands as well.

KG