New trailer for the documentary about Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros and Old Crow Medicine Show’s railroad trip across America. The movie will premiere at the SXSW festival this coming March.

Directed by Emmett Malloy, the Big Easy Express documents the Railroad Revival Tour the bands embarked on in April last year. Playing sold out shows in 6 cities — from San Francisco to New Orleans — travelling on a vintage train.

The tour echoed the famous Festival Express tour, when The Band, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead travelled Canada by train, playing gigs along the way.

Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and Old Crow Medicine Show are some of my all time favourite bands and I know I’m definitely going to be making some time to see this movie at SXSW when I visit next month. I’m sure after I see it, I’ll want to take a train ride of the Big Easy Express myself.

For those of you unfamiliar with the bands featured above, here are some of their best videos (which are actually my favourite songs)…