Grammy-Winning Multi-Platinum Rock Band Train Realizes a Deeper Musical Potential on Eagerly-Awaited New Album, 'For Me, It's You,' From Columbia Records

Grammy-Winning Multi-Platinum Rock Band Train Realizes a Deeper Musical Potential on Eagerly-Awaited New Album, 'For Me, It's You,' From Columbia Records

Emotionally Powerful Collection of New Train Songs Reunites Revitalized Band with Producer Brendan O'Brien

In Stores Tuesday, January 31, 2006

NEW YORK, Nov. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records is set to release For Me, It's You, the eagerly-awaited new album from the Grammy-winning multi- platinum rock band Train, on Tuesday, January 31, 2006.

For Me, It's You is the first album of new Train songs since 2003's My Private Nation (which featured the Grammy-nominated #1 Adult Top 40/Adult Contemporary radio smash "Calling All Angels") and is the first new Train release of any sort since Alive At Last, the group's acclaimed live concert album (released in 2004).

For Me, It's You was recorded over the course of an intensive seven week period in Atlanta, Georgia with producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Rage Against The Machine, Trey Anastasio) at the dials. O'Brien first worked with Train in 2001 on the double-platinum watershed album, Drops Of Jupiter (which yielded the group two Grammy awards: Best Rock Song and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists) and later for 2003's masterful follow-up, My Private Nation (which earned Train two Grammy nominations for "Calling All Angels").

For Me, It's You is the first Train studio album to showcase the band's revamped and revitalized lineup--on-board since 2003's My Private Nation tour- -featuring bassist Johnny Colt (originally from the Black Crowes), and fabled Atlanta keyboardist Brandon Bush (whose sounds may be heard on more than 60 recordings including John Mayer's Grammy-winning triple platinum Room For Squares and Shawn Mullins' #1 AC smash "Lullaby").

With the group's new lineup working and playing as one on For Me, It's You, Train's new album emerges as the most fully realized and keenly focused of the band's career.

For Me, It's You finds Train reaching past its remarkable past achievements to find new levels of emotional depth and musical unity on 13 intimate explorations of the complexities of life and love: "All I Ever Wanted," "Get Out," "Cab," "Give Myself To You," "Am I Reaching You Now," "If I Can't Change Your Mind," "All I Hear," "Shelter Me," "Explanation," "Always Remember," "I'm Not Waiting In Line," "Skyscraper," and "For Me, It's You."

Train frontman Pat Monahan feels good about the relaxed and intimate vibe of For Me, It's You, "It doesn't sound like we're trying too hard," Pat offers. "I do think this record is more personal and more genuine. It's definitely an appropriate record for me personally."

"Cab," the sublime first single from For Me, It's You, has just been released to radio and is currently making its way onto the nation's airwaves.

Each of Train's studio albums--beginning with 1998's self-titled debut and carrying on through Drops Of Jupiter and My Private Nation--has achieved RIAA platinum status or better while generating a string of hit singles that touched the lives of the group's fans in profound and powerful ways: "Free," "Meet Virginia," "I Am," "Drops Of Jupiter," "Something More," "She's On Fire," "Calling All Angels," "Ordinary," "When I Look To The Sky," "Get To Me."

Playing literally hundreds of shows for thousands upon thousands of fans since forming in San Francisco in 1994, Train earned a well-deserved reputation as one of the nation's hottest live bands. With For Me, It's You, Train continues its musical journey into new territory, offering the group's fans 13 new reasons to celebrate a great American band.

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Source: Columbia Records

CONTACT: Fran DeFeo, Columbia Records, Media, New York, +1-212-833-5784,
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