Biography

Emerging from the downtown New York underground scene of the early '90s, Railroad Jerk took blues and folk influences and filtered them through a hard-edged, clangorous post-punk sound, with willfully spastic rhythms and Kerouac-on-speed vocals. Led by cartoonist Marcellus Hall, they were the toast of the indie-rock scene for a while, but they called it quits after after their fourth album, Hall and guitarist Dave Varenka going on to form White Hassle.

Top Tracks

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Discography

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• Third Rail

  Matador

  1996

• One Track Mind

  Matador

  1995

• Raise the Plow

  Matador

  1992

• Railroad Jerk

  Matador

  1990