…doesn’t mean we should forget all about the great train songs we have….

Tonight I’d like to feature some songs about train wrecks.Let’s start with Vernon Dalhart performing Wreck of the Old 97 from 1924…

I was just 3 when the great Hank Snow recorded the Wreck of the Number 9 in 1963

http://youtu.be/ppQFnD60m9Q

Here’s the Grateful Dead performing Casey Jones from 1978

http://youtu.be/OY5pHkTqLHw

And finally an earlier take on the Casey Jones story from Memphis bluesman Furry Lewis

http://youtu.be/a-Up_KpMKS0