Train song #22 is Lonesome Train Johnny Burnette and his Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio.
This features Paul Burlison on guitar.
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All Aboard
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.
I’ll tell you a story of Jimmie the Kid….
He’s a brakeman you all know. Train song #24 is by Jimmie Rodgers – Jimmie the Kid.
Little Davey
Regular readers will recall the photos I posted just a couple weeks ago of our little kitten Davey. Since those photos were taken, Davey became very ill. One day he was bouncing around full of joy and the next he had no energy, no appetite and laboured breathing. We took him to the vet only to discover that he had pneumonia. The treatment was a round of antibiotics. After a couple days, Davey regained a little appetite and we hoped he had turned the corner.
Unfortunately, Davey’s health did not continue to improve. Early this morning he was in distress and Tuffy P took him to the emergency vet clinic. Sadly there was nothing more we could do for the little guy except end his suffering.
Davey brought all kinds of joy to our household in the short time he was with us. It’s so sad he didn’t have a chance to live a full life. We’re really going to miss the little scamp.
The Monkey and the Engineer
Train song #25 is The Monkey and the Engineer, performed with great enthusiasm by the Dave Rawlings Machine.
Some people think this is a Grateful Dead tune because the Dead covered it and played it often. It was written by a performer I featured earlier on in this train song Odyssey, Jesse “Lone Cat” Fuller.
The mushrooms next door…
These grow on the lawn of my next door neighbour periodically through the summer, more or less under his spruce tree.
These are young specimens. When mature, the gills are brown. They have a mild pleasant odour, and no vulva at the base of the stem. Attempts to bruise or rub or cut or scrape the cap or stem do not result in any staining at all.
I’m pretty certain these are the same species as the ones that grew there last year, but I took a spore print anyway, and it was, as expected, chocolate brown. Perhaps these are Agaricus campestris, the meadow mushroom, or some related species. I believe them to be edible and in fact last year, I cooked some up and found them very tasty and suffered no ill effects. I picked a couple just to do spore prints last week. I had loads of oyster mushrooms in the fridge so I didn’t pick any of these for the pan.
Grooming Day
From time to time we have Lorraine Wilson, who runs a mobile pet grooming business called Peticure, come to the house and groom the Newfs. Today Ellie Mae went first. She has the thicker hair of the two girls and it’s a big job.
I like to say they both clean up real good.
Nine Pound Hammer
Train Song #26: Nine Pound Hammer. This is a Merle Travis tune performed here by the Tony Rice All Star Jam.
Here’s Mr. Travis himself. Wow, this is fantastic!
One more….Glen Campbell!
The way it is….
Gentle readers, I invite you now to click on the link and visit my friend The Presurfer to watch a most insightful little video.
Long Week
It seems like this has been a long week, but maybe that’s because I spent a couple days of it in sick bay. So tonight I wanted nothing more than to hang out at home, enjoy a double scotch and watch the hockey game on the tube. Happy night in Vancouver town. Good game too, although I think the refs deserved what they got from the fans who delighted in chanting “refs you suck” as they kept calling penalties against the good guys.
I think we may be in for yet more rain tomorrow. No wonder the garden is doing so well this year. I sure hope this regular rainfall keeps up once the boletes and the chanterelles start appearing because if it does, we’re going to have an excellent season for wild mushrooms.
By the way, for those who are counting (when will he be done with this already?), we’re down to train song #27 – Night Train by James Brown.
27th Street 