Hot Rail Explained

Hot Rail
Type:	studio
Artist:	Calexico
Cover:	Hotrail.jpg
Released:	May 9, 2000
Studio:	WaveLab Studio, Tucson, AZ
Genre:	Americana, indie rock, Tex-Mex, post-rock
Length:	53:17
Label:	Quarterstick Records
Producer:	Joey Burns, John Convertino
Prev Title:	The Black Light
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Feast of Wire
Next Year:	2003

Hot Rail is the third studio album by the rock band Calexico. It was released in 2000 through Quarterstick Records. A limited deluxe edition was released on November 15, 2010.^[1]

Track listing

The EU version of the album contains the additional track "Crystal Frontier" (Burns) between "Fade" and "Untitled III".

Personnel

Calexico

• Joey Burns – bass, guitar, cello, voice, loops, accordion, organ
• John Convertino – drums, vibes, marimba, organ, percussion, accordion

Additional musicians

• Marianne Dissard – voice (2)
• Tim Gallagher – pedal steel (9)
• Nick Luca – guitar (1, 7, 11, 13)
• Rob Mazurek – cornet (4)
• Ruben Moreno – trumpet (1, 2, 7, 13)
• Craig Schumacher – harmonica (11), MCI 16 track (12), field recording (14)
• Madeleine Sosin – violin (1, 2, 7, 9, 11, 13)
• Martin Wenk – trumpet (1, 2, 7, 13)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hot Rail (Limited Deluxe Edition) . 2013-12-11 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130720190217/http://www.cityslang.com/releases/calexico/Slang0680050%20DL/hot-rail-ltd-deluxe-edition/ . 2013-07-20 . dead .
2. Web site: Calexico. Official Charts Company. November 17, 2017.