Book of Travelers

The morning after the 2016 presidential election, I packed a suitcase and boarded Amtrak’s Lake Shore Limited bound for Chicago. Over the next thirteen days, I talked to dozens of strangers whom I met, primarily, in dining cars aboard the six trains that would carry me some 8,980 miles around the country. The songs on this album are intended as a kind of loose diary of that journey, and as a portrait of America at a time of profound national turbulence.

After the 2016 election, the Brooklyn musician embarked on a cross-country train trip that yielded an album that inextricably links America’s abstract political reality with the human lives it has shaped.

Gabriel Kahane returns to follow up 2016's The Ambassador with another concept album, of sorts.

Gabriel Kahane set off on a cross-country train journey on November 9, 2016, the day after Donald Trump won the Electoral College vote for President of the...