So there's a run of Last Train Home shows coming up at Iota in a few weeks. The right thing for me to do would be to point you towards Sunday the 8th as it is then you will most likely get to hear the Kevin Cordt "tet" as we've taken to calling them (really known as the Kevin Cordt Trio). I really wanted to write about the Sunday show at the end of April where at one point there were 7 players on stage with Kevin's Trio. It looks like what ever bug that Last Train Home's got that makes people jump on stage and get called out of the audience is catching. It's a lovely thing to watch if just for the reason that this group of fellas plays around each other in a number of different kinds/types of bands-(country, rock, straight up roots, art rock) and it is really fun to hear them wrap it around the jazz idiom now too. There's a lot of personality and music edjoocayshion on the bandstand, I lobbied for a rendition of Nature Boy in April, after hearing that Dave VanAllen had it transcribed for the Steel. Now that steel and Kevin singing it would be sweet. New life to an under used song.

Speaking of LTH and devotion, I just have to make a short note about Mike Aldridge and Jimmy Gaudreau and how either freaked out or amused, (I could not tell which) they were at the woohoo's and cat calls they got at Iota playing as the Skylighters with three Last Train Homers. Jimmy kept hootin' back-atchaudience. I like that Jimmy bunches. I know that being ONLY 30 or so, I am an exception when it somes to my knowledge of the Seldom Scene and the heyday of DC bluegrass. There were some regulars from the specifically Iota LTH crowd that did come out to the Thursday show and it was interesting to see the audience/band dynamic. Even the most rabid LTH/Eric Brace fan has got to hear in Mike and Jimmy the foundations of LTH. Will these 25-35 year olds stick it out long enough to figure out who the Seldom Scene was and is?

Which brings me to my executive decision to put up for you readers of groupiegirl, what do we call those individuals that pack those Last Train Home shows? Now granted I am often one of them, but I hope that I am recognized as an all around music scenester. These are the people you pretty much never see anywhere else but Iota. So are they already called something-the specific LTH groupies? I've heard mention of TRAINEES, what about HOMERS? VOTE, dammit, what do you call them?