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… Read More
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!
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… Read More
…is Folsom Prison Blues. You might say, hey buddy, that’s a prison song, not a train song, but I’m gonna answer by just simply sayin’ I hear that train a comin….rollin ’round the bend…and I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when. Here’s… Read More
…is that it’s time for a train song of the day! It’s time for train song #29 to be exact. Here’s Fiddlin’ Arthur Smith playing Lost Train Blues from the 1946 film, Moon over Montana. And here’s Price Goodson and some fancy harmonica… Wow, that’s… Read More
Train Song #30 features The Waterboys performing Some of my Best Friends are Trains. http://youtu.be/bBAJ2wge_T8
Train song #31 features Kathy Mattea covering the Jean Ritchie tune, The L&N don’t stop here Anymore.
Here’s Johnny Horton performing train song #32, The Golden Rocket…nice rockabilly feel to this one.’ And here’s Hank Snow’s version. Ok, let me say it, I love Hank Snow’s performances. That said, listen to David Peterson and 1946 do a superfantabulous live version… These guys… Read More
Here’s The Pogues. I love this one… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGL4ZtvDN0o&nofeather=True And here’s Luke Kelly… This Irish-American tune goes back to the 1860s. This is Train Song of the Day #33. Let’s go out for a few beers now, ok?
Train song #34 is People Get Ready… Here’s Al Green with Linda Jones and Wanda Neal. Here’s a much different version I like a lot by Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee. It’s from a record they released in the mid-70s that I think was just… Read More
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