Thin Rail reminds one of a smoky honky-tonk on the edge of town populated by interesting characters drinking bottom shelf whiskey and conspiring about their desperate lives in coarse whispers. A unique blend of the music that makes music truly American: the literate folk of Mitchell, the haunting blues of Hopkins, the country howl Prine, the rock snarl of the Truckers and the soulful moan of Pickett. It all adds up to a little bit of self-reflection peppered with the spice of a rollicking good time.