Flynnville Train

iTunes Review

Vintage Southern Rock is the fuel that fires up Flynnville Train, with a heaping of honky-tonk tossed in for good measure. More than anything, this Indiana quintet picks up where the raucous likes of Confederate Railroad and the Kentucky Headhunters left off in the mid-‘90s. Flynnville Train loads up with whiskey-soaked anthems that are big on throbbing guitar riffs and shout-along choruses, if not on subtlety. Then again, would anyone want tunes with titles like “Last Good Time,” “Tequila Sheila” and “Red Nekkid” to be anything less than full-blown obvious? The steamy, Hank Jr.-inspired “Redneck Side of Me” and the gnarly heartache tune “Nowhere Than Somewhere” let the band cool off their boogie shoes between upbeat tracks. “Truck Stop In the Sky” (a bluesy long-hauler’s tale) and “High On the Mountain” (a swaggering call to glory) find them working familiar themes with a measure of wit and spunkiness. A slide-guitar-driven cover of Savoy Brown’s “Tell Mama” smolders nicely, while a countrified remake of the Beatles’ “Baby’s In Black” adds some acoustic shadings.