Singer/songwriter Todd Sheaffer has had quite the month. The weekend before Thanksgiving, Sheaffer’s primary band Railroad Earth played three shows at Boulder, CO’s Fox Theatre. On the second night of ...

Railroad Earth was born out of jamming. Or at least out of jam sessions. The New Jersey-based acoustic rock sextet came into existence when signer-songwriter Todd Sheaffer sat in on a series of ...

Todd Sheaffer, former frontman of RCA recording act From Good Homes, no sooner released his solo debut album, Dream of Love: Live from the Whitney Chapel,’ when he joined the buzzing bluegrass-rock ...

The Jersey-based bluegrass-jam band Railroad Earth will perform at the Community Theatre in Morristown on Saturday, but will spend much of the next two months at music festivals. Rock festivals, folk ...

Oh, the many, many things you can do with strings.Railroad Earth, “Elko”recorded by Mike Partridgeand Johnny Grubb (Sugar Hill)After three studio albums made notable by the songs and singing of ...

“Have you ever heard the Paul McCartney story of ‘Yesterday,’ where his original lyrics were ‘Scrambled Eggs’?” Todd Sheaffer, having stumbled on a better way to describe his songwriting process, asks ...

In separate interviews, Todd Sheaffer and Patrick Fitzsimmons both used the word "strange" — but also the word "natural" — to describe their gig last month at New York’s Mercury Lounge. They and ...

They’re living the good life. Newgrass kings Railroad Earth are on the road again, stopping for musical interludes Thursday at Boulder’s Fox Theater, Friday at Colorado Springs’ 32 Bleu and Saturday ...

From Good Homes, which disbanded in 1999, will reunite at the Newton Theatre on Friday, December 21, and Saturday, December 22. The line-up remains unchanged since the band formed in Sussex County ...

No one would know all the tribulations that influenced “It’s So Good,” the latest track from bluegrass rockers Railroad Earth upon first listen. Upbeat—even cheerful—the track was inspired by how a ...

Ten years ago, when Railroad Earth first started pulling into stages away from its base in northwestern New Jersey, one of its first stops was on top of Aspen Mountain. I consider myself fortunate to ...