Four years into a promising career, and Railroad Earth is clearly setting the cruise control. No, the band is not sinking into the doldrums of comfortableness, nor is it speeding down that road to excess; it is channeling the muse of improvisation through mostly stringed, mostly acoustic instruments with a flow that defies the early, humble intentions of playing bluegrass. With increasing vitality, the band stretches its joints on its first live release, Elko, culled during spring of 2005.
While many purists may decry the patchwork make-up of Elko in contrast to a pure live
