Maxx Traxx: Third Rail Folk I was asked to join

I was asked to join a country band—Big Al Orkins and the Countrymen

Both find the band severing their post-hardcore roots

collective New World Music

thrusting the Brits ahead in the race to make Hot Chocolate a household name for something other than dark

Born out of Bloomington

Maxx Traxx: Third Rail Folk I was asked to joinThere was one irrepressible Chicago club act that refused to be replaced by any DJs sound system. Maxx Traxx (and Third Rail before them) were a scene unto themselves in the early 80s, happening live on stage five plus nights a week somewhere in the 312. Their two LPs, both recorded in 1982, are like catching a bullet train, a sheer energy ride almost too explosive to be captured by studio tape. And yet these two stone classics would remain unanswered