Songs about Trains
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Typically percussive guitar work and powerful, impassioned vocal from the great Son House
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A sprawling, ambitious and, well, rather unusual arrangement featuring the Supremes. Perhaps the only train song they ever performed?
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Fantastic, utterly raw track from the great Bo Diddley.
HELLO DERE! |
Audio is Mississippi Fred McDowell, photo on the video is Mississippi John Hurt. Heh.
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Ol' Conway knows any country singer worth his salt oughtta have a train song in his repertoire.
Here's a peppy little ode to a Texas train by Luke Wills, the brother of Western swing's # 1 man, Bob Wills. Great steel guitar on this charming little number. "Her whistle screaming, she don't slow down!"
Country-fried goodness!
The wonderful Henry Thomas works it out with one chord (all you need!) and his quills (that is, panpipes), in a beautiful "list of stations" tune. He might not change his chord til the very end, (when he gets to Chicago) but he does change rail cars with some frequency!
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Classic Fred McDowell.
The Dixon Brothers offer up this inspirational number and assure us that the blessed lord was riding on the train. This is some serious down-home vocal styling, here.
Frank Hutchison brings his deliciously asymmetrical timing and simple, unadorned vocal stylization to this great country blues number. This lyric gem really stands out: "gonna lay my head on some railroad line / let the Cannonball try and pacify my mind".
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