Railroad Earth plays roots music like a living river — flowing, improvisational, story-rich, and filled with the colors of American folk tradition. Built on the songwriting of Todd Sheaffer, the band blends bluegrass instrumentation with jam-band freedom, rock-band weight, and poetic lyricism that reads like road maps, rail lines, wind, and memory. Fiddle and mandolin dance, banjo flickers like sparks in dark timber, drums push forward like wheels on steel, and songs stretch into jams that feel organic, never forced. Their music is pastoral and wide-eyed, but never still — a sound that breathes, wanders, and climbs. Railroad Earth is not bluegrass, not rock, not folk — but something warm and wandering in between, built for long listening and long journeys.