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Mar 8, 2011 Updated Mar 10, 2011

UK Folksters Mumford and sons are on a roll at the moment...and now they're set to hit the rails.

Fresh from playing alongside Bob Dylan at this year's Grammys, the band have just notched up another milestone, becoming the first British band in over than two years to achieve a million-selling album on both sides of the Atlantic.

Now the band are going on the road – well, on the rails, really - with a Woody-Guthrie inspired tour of the American southwest, eating, sleeping, recording, and performing in 15 vintage railcars from the 1950s and ‘60s.

The Railroad Revival Tour departs from Oakland on April 21 and terminates on April 27 in New Orleans with stops in Arizona and Texas along the way.

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Mumford & Sons are a British folk rock band. The band consists of Marcus Mumford (vocals, guitar, drums, mandolin), Ben Lovett (vocals, keyboards, accordion, drums), Country Winston Marshall (vocals, banjo, dobro, guitar), and Ted Dwane (vocals, string bass, drums, guitar). Mumford & Sons formed in December 2007, emerging out of what some in the media labeled the "West London folk scene" with...

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