Freight train rabbit killer band workout
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Freight Train Rabbit Killer marks 10 years of haunting Kansas City with 'doom blues'
One great thing about being Freight Train Rabbit Killer: No worries about what to do for Halloween.
“I mean, my suits are covered in four words, most of them: ‘rage, anger, pain and hurt,’” said Kris Bruders, quoting Lou Reed.
“Which are the four things that get passed down from generation to generation, for sure.”
Bruders is Freight Train in the band Freight Train Rabbit Killer, so-called because of his affinity for train songs.
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The other guy is Mark Smeltzer, who picked up the nickname Rabbit Killer up after running out of money for food. He was down to $5 for the month.
“So I bought bullets,” said Smeltzer. “I learned to shoot rabbits with a nine-shot Colt pistol, basically a snake gun.”
Just before Halloween 10 years ago, Bruders and Smeltzer forged Freight Train Rabbit Killer around a love of hardscrabble American music.
The stuff they play is crashing, heavy blues, swirled wit