Today, I’m going to feature Hank Snow. Hank Snow was born in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Nova Scotia that is. His music career goes way back to 1933 when he billed himself as Hank Snow the Yodeling Ranger. He ended up recording over 100 albums.
Here’s Blow Your Whistle Freight Train…
Canadian Pacific (lots of Canadian content here….)
Train Whistle Blues. Mr. Snow has an excellent outfit in this video (in case you’re wondering what to get Mister Anchovy for Christmas). Was his hair painted on or what?
And one more. This is the first song I learned all the words to back when I was a little anchovy.
Ok ok…one more, if you insist. The Last Ride. I love the spoken word part of this one.
27th Street 
Wreck of the Old 97 is one of the great train songs but very few people do a good job with it and almost none sing the song the way it was written the way Hank Snow did. It is hilarious to see some of these singers get all politically correct when they come to lyrics like “He said to his black greasy fireman” They change this to absurd lines like kind dirty fireman without realizing that the guy is black with coal dust and greasy from sweat rather than the line being some sort of racial thing. Check out Hank’s version of Ghost Train and of Wabash Cannonball as well. I think Adobe Hacienda was the only song he recorded that I actually didn’t like.
My favourite Hank Snow tune is an obscure old number called Zeb Turney’s Gal. I can’t explain why I like it so much. I just do.
Fun!
That’s definitely an interesting getup. It’s like Liberace decided to become a matador…