Silverton Railroad Scenery
Sometime after my last trip to Durango in 2021, my friend Josh introduced me to a music video from folk musician and rail photographer Anthony D'Amato from the album "At First There Was Nothing" filmed along the Durango & Silverton. I eventually got hooked on the album, and shortly afterwards discovered the singer-songwriter quartet D'Amato is part of called "Fantastic Cat." Since today is the day Fantastic Cat released their second album, my mind has to go back to the Durango & Silverton naturally as where I view the landscape being home to an elusive musician and photographer known by the aliases of Antonio Domingo, Andy Dermungus, and "Drunk Dwayne." My photos can only be mere imitations since I lack the ability to also shove the railroad into music videos I guess.
I've long been a fan of the indie rock/alternative scene with stuff like the Killers, the War on Drugs, and the Black Keys (and a collection of "classic rock" albums cut by the likes of the Eagles, Springsteen, ELO, and the Cars) having been solidly part of my vinyl collection the last few years; so it was pretty easy to slide the folk rock sounds of Fantastic Cat into my "yeah I totally vibe with this" music collection. As a railfan and fan of music, I tend to try and shove the fact this band has a railfan among their midst and that you totally should listen to them into conversation perhaps more often than I should (just like my latest discovery that Patrick O'Brian author of the Aubrey-Maturin series briefly lived in a village in Snowdonia near the Ffestiniog/Welsh Highland Railways is also something I just dumped on Discord yesterday, or pointing out all the railroad references such as RG-G1 in Star Wars... where my hobby interests intersect is a dangerous point of inflection for long winded rants about trivia).
Silverton Railroad Scenery
Sometime after my last trip to Durango in 2021, my friend Josh introduced me to a music video from folk musician and rail photographer Anthony D'Amato from the album "At First There Was Nothing" filmed along the Durango & Silverton. I eventually got hooked on the album, and shortly afterwards discovered the singer-songwriter quartet D'Amato is part of called "Fantastic Cat." Since today is the day Fantastic Cat released their second album, my mind has to go back to the Durango & Silverton naturally as where I view the landscape being home to an elusive musician and photographer known by the aliases of Antonio Domingo, Andy Dermungus, and "Drunk Dwayne." My photos can only be mere imitations since I lack the ability to also shove the railroad into music videos I guess.
I've long been a fan of the indie rock/alternative scene with stuff like the Killers, the War on Drugs, and the Black Keys (and a collection of "classic rock" albums cut by the likes of the Eagles, Springsteen, ELO, and the Cars) having been solidly part of my vinyl collection the last few years; so it was pretty easy to slide the folk rock sounds of Fantastic Cat into my "yeah I totally vibe with this" music collection. As a railfan and fan of music, I tend to try and shove the fact this band has a railfan among their midst and that you totally should listen to them into conversation perhaps more often than I should (just like my latest discovery that Patrick O'Brian author of the Aubrey-Maturin series briefly lived in a village in Snowdonia near the Ffestiniog/Welsh Highland Railways is also something I just dumped on Discord yesterday, or pointing out all the railroad references such as RG-G1 in Star Wars... where my hobby interests intersect is a dangerous point of inflection for long winded rants about trivia).