Trains from Trains by John Jenkins

John Jenkins – Vocals and Keyboards
Jon Lawton – Guitars, Bass and Programming

About the Song

I hadn’t really written any new songs for a long long time and I decided one day to start up again in 2014.
This was the first song I wrote and I knew I wanted to write more personal songs than I ever had written before. So many songs on this album are about me or I’ve put myself into a character and a situation that isn’t me but have a few strands of how I was feeling at the time. The character in this song I pictured as travelling around America in trains trying to come to terms with his life and what’s been thrown at him. I do know someone who lives in Bellevue and has got 6 kids and I occasionally think about what might have been.

About the Recording

I wanted to get a similar feel to “Supertramp’s song Rudi” and “Chris Isaak’s Wicked Game”. I played the latter to Jon when I was discussing guitar parts and I was knocked out by the way he was able to get exactly what I needed and wanted for the song. He does that all the time.

Hailing from the centre of musical greatness, Liverpool, John Jenkins has steadily been wowing listeners and critics over with each new music release and performance.

“One of UK’s Best and most original songwriters” (Maximum Volume Magazine)

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