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Empty Tracks (feat. The Potato Monsters)

from Where to Now? by Track Dogs

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about

“Empty Tracks” came along in the first days the March 2020 lockdown as Robbie lost his beloved alarm clock, that while intrusive the morning after a gig, set the day’s pace like a town clock. The suddenly silent tracks that run past his house quickly rusted over and became a symbol of the stagnation and frustration of that time. Track Dogs fans have already been introduced to that mountain train in the song and animated video, “The Lights Went Out in Cotos” (Serenity Sessions 2016).
The Castilian and Galician panderetas at the end of “Empty Tracks” are a nod to that first time this train was a Track Dogs muse. Being a jig, Robbie first tried it out with The Potato Monsters as soon as they were able to restart their weekly sessions at their local in the mountains of Madrid, El Taller De Cerveza. That made the perfect excuse to recruit these old friends and mainstays of the Celtic music scene in Spain. The train you hear is really Line C9’s locomotive recorded back in 2015 while
climbing the Sierra de Guadarrama with now-retired engineers and buddies, Salva and Pepe.
As of the release of Where to Now?, the village of Cercedilla is still longing to hear their tren de Cotos.

lyrics

Looking down these empty tracks
Knowing that my train has gone
Wondering when my train will come back
Hope against hope it’s not gone for long

Don’t need the first, up at 9:39
20 past 11 downbound would be fine
Four and five times up the mountain, and down again
Cercedilla to Cotos: C-9

Listen to the whistle blow
See those red and white cars roll
Feel the wheels rounding the narrow gauge curves
I can hear them scream, but just in my dreams
Come back and free my soul

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from Where to Now?, released February 18, 2022

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Track Dogs Madrid, Spain

Track Dogs are an acoustic four piece based in Spain but hail from Ireland, the US and UK.

Taking their name from the NY subway maintenance teams this closely-knit group of ex-pats have opted for Cajón instead of drums and trumpet in place of electric guitar. Four-part harmonies steal the show.

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