Here’s train song #23 – Mystery Train by Little Junior Parker and the Blue Flames, released on Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee in 1953.
What a fantastic recording! I think that’s Pat Hare on the guitar solo. Two years later the tune was covered by Elvis Presley, recorded in the same Sun Studios.
Magic. Both versions incredible. What was in the water in Memphis Tennessee in the fifties? If they bottled some of that stuff, I want a case of it.
Somebody asked me the other day, hey Mister Anchovy, once you’ve counted down all those train songs, what’s next? Let me give you just a little hint dear friends…a sneak preview if you will. Here’s the late great Dean Martin performing Little Old Wine Drinker Me.
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