Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
With each new Dan Zanes and Friends release, many fans worry that his homespun magic will eventually hit the right note with the masses. Zanes' music, as offbeat as it is organic, is so special to forward-thinking young families that plenty have batted around half-baked plans to attach a password to it. Anybody else can sell out, the thinking goes, but please, please not him. Catch That Train, then, is bound to meet with a lot of hand-wringing. For one thing, it's the first Zanes and Friends release since the crazy-haired, asparagus-stalk thin artist started appearing in videos on the Playhouse Disney channel. For another, Starbucks has stepped in to lend a promotional hand. Those are ominous indicators indeed, but if the largely on-track Catch That Train proves anything, it's that Zanes isn't lock-stepping it with the boardroom goons just yet. Once again, the high-profile collaborators (The Blind Boys of Alabama, Nick Cave, Natalie Merchant) could cause a childless hipster to heed the all-aboard call, but also as on previous discs, it's the usual suspects who supply some of the strongest tracks: Barbara Brousal on 'Mariposa Ole,' Father Goose on 'Choo Choo Ch'Boogie,' and the Rubi Theater Company on 'Walkin' the Dog.' True, 'Let's Shake' seems suspiciously TV-ready; skip it and pretend it never happened. Then keep your fingers crossed that, once this train leaves the station, Zanes--plainspoken hero to so many--won't trade it in for a stretch limo. --Tammy La Gorce





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Disc 1:

1. Catch That Train!
2. Let's Shake
3. Welcome Table (with the Blind Boys of Alabama)
4. Mariposa Ole (with Barbara Brousal)
5. Train Station Humor
6. Choo Choo Ch' Boogie (with Father Goose aka Rankin' Don)
7. Pigogo (with the Children of Agape)
8. Country Life (with Donald Saaf)
9. Loch Lomond (with Natalie Merchant)
10. While The Music Is Playing
11. I Don't Want Your Millions Mister (with the How Not To Get Rich Orchestra)
12. The Fine Friends Are Here
13. Walkin' The Dog (with the Rubi Theater Company)
14. Wander In The Summer Wind
15. Grey Goose (with the Kronos Quartet)
16. Pata Pata (with Father Goose aka Rankin' Don and Wunmi)
17. Sweet Rosyanne (with Nick Cave)
18. Moonlit Town (with Anna and the Flutes)

Customer Reviews

Average Rating:

Rating: - * good for everyone ... Some kids music is rather annoying for adults. This album is very enjoyable for everyone. My husband and i like it as much as our kids do. Dan Zanes and They Might Be Giants are some of our favorites. Rating: - * Great Recording ... Great recording, all of the arrangements are very well done. The contributions of other artists are done in taste. This is good listening for either children or adults. I am thinking this is similar to the work of Woody Guthrie's when he was writing and performing songs for his and other children. With all the American Idol, pop-crap out there it is recordings like this that reinforce what music is really about, listening to nice melodies that make us feel good about being alive. Rating: - * Nice! ... There are catchy beats and neat lyrics! The syle needs to be your taste to really get into it as an adult, but the kids seem to love it. Rating: - * Yes, Catch That Train ... We purchased this record for grandchildren aged 2-6 and they loved it. Almost as good was that we adults found the music pleasurable and fun too. The CD was packaged artistically with all the lyrics in a song booklet. The CD's story theme could have been more pronounced so that younger children might more easily identify with the story. That said, we danced up a storm. We're buying other Dan Zane CD's for our enjoyment and will make them future presents to the g-kids. Highly recommended. Rating: - * Great for kids and adults! ... If you want some fun music that won't drive you up a wall, make you feel like you're 2 or send you screaming from a room, this is a great CD! Not your traditional kids music but so much more fun! There's a great variety of musical styles and they are just fun songs to hear over and over. If you've seen his videos on the Disney Channel you'll know what to expect. Really great - can't say enough about how good the music and lyrics are. Check it out!