"Subtitled "Field Recordings From The Great American Railroad". Or, in other words, Billy Bragg gets to indulge his younger man's fantasies, drenching himself in the romantic folklore of the railroad pioneers and record an album of train songs. He's found a willing accomplice in American singer-songwriter Joe Henry, the pair of them taking off on an epic 2,000-mile/four day ride from Chicago Union Station all the way to Los Angeles, breathing in the fumes that presumably helped to inspire the likes of Lead Belly, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Sara Carter and Jean Ritchie to write some of the classic songs included here ... Necessarily primitive and unsubtle with occasional sounds of railway-hubbub behind them (shades of Michelle Shocked's Texas Camp Fire Tapes), it's great fun - though probably not as much fun as they clearly had making it".