The Accidentals - Night Train (Official Music Video)
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- Опубликовано: 25 мар 2021
- Night Train might be one of our favorite co-writes. We wrote Night Train with Dar Williams. It’s rare you meet a story-teller as gifted as Dar. Dar was there (in a way) when I was born. The story is, her song, Beauty of the Rain, was playing on the portable speaker by the hospital bed.
When we were just starting to tour, we were seventeen and eighteen and we had the chance to open for her at The Birchmere. She asked us to sit in on strings with her at the end of her set.
That night truly felt full circle.
When we knew these co-writes were going to become the TIME OUT EP, we reached out to her and asked her to write a song with us. We were absolutely blown away when she said yes.
Over many zoom calls, we were enthralled by her stories of a train ride she took right before the world shut down. She wove a tale about the towns she passed through, the people she met, the landscape, the possibilities. It was so healing to listen to another musician talk about traveling and the power of community. We know the kind of magic you experience in meeting strangers, finding common ground, becoming friends in one conversation, and coming to the realization that we are more alike than not, and there is more goodness in the world than we might believe. Night Train became an anthem for our small towns, communities, our country, for the work we have to do, for the hope and light that exists. It’s about healing and investing in our future. It’s the rally call.
This song seems really simple but it was one of the hardest to record - we ended up stripping down the drums at the last minute to let Katie's vocal and the story speak a little louder.
In the final hour, middle of the night we were working on this tune and felt like it needed something to fill out the bridge so we sent it to Sav's dad and asked him to lay a piano track. Thank goodness he is usually available at 2am. We spent a little extra time on the vocals on this one - really trying to create a flow that felt natural. This is one of those songs that feels like it will stand the test of time. TIME OUT EP coming May 7th. 
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Totally obsessed with this song 🥰
You were just at my gas station in GR. I told you I would look you up and it brought me to this song! Love it. Glad our paths crossed in a brief moment😀
I love this. I absolutely love this. Thanks
so glad to hear it!
this song is so good. be back in an hour or two
It will be nice to see your live shows again.
Amen! Preach that!
We're looking forward to it!
Wow, I’ve been an Accidentals fan for at least a year now yet somehow never realized you did a songwriting collab with Dar! This is a gorgeous song.
Dar was a huge part of my childhood, and the way my parents met. I’ve met her several times, and even have my own baby story involving her: my parents took me to a concert of hers as a baby, and as babies tend to do, I started crying. The security guards asked my mom to stand at the back of the theatre with me so as not to be disruptive. But Dar noticed (my parents credit her as saying she “saw the light shining off a baby’s bald head”) and asked my mom to take me up on stage with her instead.
The thing I love most about her music is all the stories woven into it, and yours has the same charming quality. Thank you for this amazing collab, and for the music you continue to make!
(There’s also a chance I’ll be there for your Grand Rapids concert in late April this year. My mom has family there so it would be a good excuse to go. If I am able to go: can’t wait!)
❤️ One of the best things that happened this year, discovering The Accidentals, accidently..
Once again I'm too touched for this gorgeous song! Absolutely gorgeous! 🙏🎶👏
I linked to The Accidentals through Dar Williams, and now I wish you would come tour Wales. If all music was this good I would melt.
Absolutely gorgeous, your sound is still one of the best I've ever heard!!!
I accidentally clicked on this...I'll add the accidentals to my list of accidentals
Same here. I love this song now lol
I saw them in concert a few years ago. They were awesome.
welcome to the FAM Isaac!
I love growing old with The Accidentals.
Just saw you guys perform at Midtown in Grand Rapids last night and this was one of my favorites that you performed. Thank you for such a beautiful piece ♥
Thank you for working so hard to get your beautiful art out into the world.
Great song, congratulations!
Another accidental discovery. I love this💖
This is really beautiful x
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Beautiful, y’all. Love the video - and glad one o’ you threw ONE snowball during your jaunt on the tracks 😆. Your harmonies are incredible, as always. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🚂 ❄️❄️❄️
Very nice.! I love the unique texture and vibe! And yes, I found ya'll by accident.
SO beautiful. A new day, and yet another awesome song drop from you guys. I love train rides and I love the imagery and nostalgia in these lyrics. And Dad Of The Year award goes to Sav's dad for the 2am piano track!
This is probably going to be my new favorite Accidentals song, as there are many! Your passion shines through!
Totally agreed. "Memorial Day" was my favorite track until they blew me out of my shoes with this. It's just about perfect.
Beautiful song! I enjoyed this!
I love it already and I haven't even heard it yet. 🙂
Piano as Percussion - what a concept. I could not play this song with such restraint.....78^)
I am absolutely hooked .I'm a michigan girl in a Florida world but thinking of moving back home .
Great Song
I love this, and I love you guys!
Prettiest thing I've ever heard you do, lyrically and musically. Doing all I can to push this to #1! So proud of you...and if the song catches me right, like today, it just makes me bawl! About as close to perfect a song for you three as anyone could have hoped for!!
Me too, got all teared up & there's that deep ache in my solar plexus. So beautiful
It's a tear puller for me too! I'm looping it in an attempt to learn it.
LOVED IT!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🎆🎆🎆🎆
Just lovely.
I might be slow but I'll keep my line. Love the Accidentals!
New Accidentals = Lifes Good
This is gonna be grrreat!
Yessssssssssss...
Now the question becomes thus:
How can this be incorporated into the Circle of Wildfire druid? Perhaps the druid frequents the Rail-Away tavern?
Love it. Every song is great, a lot of feeling in their voices. L)
This is Brilliant guys, one of your best❤️
thank you so much!
Good stuff, Ladies👍
i have a rather serious question i would like to ask off the subject a little.
how does an artist create AND especially perform when tragedy strikes?
i remember so long ago I saw the moody blues in concert in indiana.
one of my all-time fav bands .
afterwards, I saw the bass player helping a crying, broken down justin haywayd from the elevator.
it turns out earlier that evening, before the show, justin's mother had passed.
they, he, still went on, performed smilingly and made us all feel great....when he himself was dying inside.
i recently just lost my little child to a long, horrific and painful cancer.
i cannot write any more songs.
i cannot even finish playing many times songs I have written.
my, as they say in the southern song, give a damn is broken.
lyrics are just so much trying to move yourself as well as others, but I can't seem to care if I move my feet!
have you had to deal with this?
and I know pain is subjective. it might not be the loss of a child, but a dog, a breakup... it's all the same to the individual.
pain from loss.
please advise
music is the best therapy, listening and playing - our hearts are fully engaged in this EP - maybe more so than any before.
I am so sorry for your tragic loss!!!! I lost MY art as a professional dance artist in 1990 (now 63) when my mentor and the person who created with me a "spiritual center" and daily moving meditation died of AIDS. For a dozen years I learned and shared such joy as we built repertory, taught at our studio, received Fed and State arts grants, and never took for granted (always cognizant and grateful of) the wonderful daily practice to ground myself. I just could not "move" forward or move passed this body grief. There was no dance I could connect with, although I tried. I had been "discovered" as a 22 yo with (such) hidden gifts, and it was a major AHA!!! experience. I was a highly kinesthetic, lost soul. I have such compassion for you. I also hope you do not isolate yourself. Healing is overrated, but sharing may bring you comfort. Peace, my friend. Julie
Is this out yet the cd
CD on May 7th!
OMG...this constant downer style will kill me with a full cd!
PLEASE...give us some meat!!!!
that's why we only made an EP! Vessel is coming soon!!! haha.
Bassist was Bruce Foxton not Paul Weller,Weller vocals and guitar.A lot of bands in this era had decent bass players,The Stranglers Jean -Jaques Burnell was my favourite.
Need more volume play more
"Premieres in 25 hours" is 26 hours too long.
agreed!