Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer April 1, 2008 MUSIC REVIEWS: Bluegrass music releases By KEITH LAWRENCE JIMMY GAUDREAU & MOONDI KLEIN "2:10 Train" Rebel Records. 13 tracks. Can bluegrass be played on just two instruments - a mandolin and guitar? Purists will likely debate whether this new album from Jimmy Gaudreau and Lawrence "Moondi" Klein is really bluegrass. But both are long-time bluegrass musicians and the music is acoustic. And anyway, the definition of bluegrass is getting pretty loose these days. Gaudreau, 61, the mandolin player, burst on the national bluegrass scene in 1969, when he replaced John Duffey in the legendary Country Gentlemen. Duffey went on to found the Seldom Scene and in the early 1990s, Klein, now 45, replaced John Starling as the lead singer and guitarist for the Scene. Then, Gaudreau and Klein joined forces in 1996 to create the short-lived super-group Chesapeake with Mike Auldridge and T. Michael Coleman, two other former members of the Seldom Scene. Chesapeake, which played a blend of bluegrass, country, folk, blues and jazz, folded a decade ago. But last year, Klein invited Gaudreau to go with him on a trip to Great Britain and they decided to record an album to sell at shows over there. That's why it's a duet album and not a full band. Rebel refers to the album as "new-time" brother duets. Whatever it is, it's beautiful music. Three of the songs - "Dreamer or Believer," "High Sierra" and "The Last Thing On My Mind" - are from the Chesapeake repertoire. Four are traditional songs - "Sweet Sunny South," "Arkansas Traveler/ Soldier's Joy," "Black Jack Davey" and " Shady Grove." The title cut is a song about a train that takes women home from visiting day at a prison. It's all good, but the highlight is "And The Band Played `Waltzing Matilda'," a song about Australian soldiers in World War I who learned that "there were worst things than dying." Whether it's technically bluegrass or not, "2:10 Train" is an album most bluegrass fans will want to hear. Can't find it in stores? Try www.RebelRecords.com