Train Music!

[AnotherSpin]

8 hours ago, Iving said:

agreed - sphinxsix honorary moderator for one page 🙂

 

It was a joke and a sign of my reluctance to continue – it is quite clear, there are too many train-related songs to keep interest in it 🙂

[AnotherSpin]

8 hours ago, sphinxsix said:

And maybe even more importantly what about e.g. Chopin.?! 

 

 

 

There were many trains in Austria named after the composers. I travelled on several of them when Europe was still of some interest to me. Like Mozart, Bruckner, Lehar, etc.

[Iving]

30 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

It was a joke and a sign of my reluctance to continue – it is quite clear, there are too many train-related songs to keep interest in it 🙂

lol 

i learned a long time ago not to declare expiry of personal interest in threads on this forum!

yours was an exceptional run yesterday.

[AnotherSpin]

1 hour ago, Iving said:

lol 

i learned a long time ago not to declare expiry of personal interest in threads on this forum!

yours was an exceptional run yesterday.

 

It was not a declaration but an explanation of the meaning of particular post which most likely was not understood properly. Anyway thank you for your attention I appreciate it 🙂

[DuckToller]

saw that song by Johhny Cash, here's the original
 

 

[Iving]

25 minutes ago, DuckToller said:

saw that song by Johhny Cash, here's the original
 

 

 

Lonnie was inspired!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Island_Line

[Iving]

Red Hot Chilli Pipers - Black Knight On The Crazy Train ...

 

[Iving]

Hellbound Train - Red Hot Chilli Pipers ...

 

[Iving]

Hellbound Train - Poison 13 ...

 

[Iving]

Hellbound Train - Savoy Brown ...

 

[Iving]

Hellbound Train - The Stems

 

[Iving]

Fleetwood Mac [early with Peter Green] - First Train Home ...

 

[Iving]

Vernon Dalhart brace ...

The Runaway Train ...

 

The Wreck Of The Norfolk & Western Cannonball ...

 

[Solstice380]

 

[Iving]

West Coast Consortium - One Day The Train Never Came ...

 

[Iving]

Velvet Underground - Train Round The Bend ...

 

Alt. Mix

 

[christopher3393]

Papa Lightfoot - Mean Ol' Train (1954)

 

 

FAST FREIGHT TRAIN..........." PEG LEG" SAM JACKSON

 

"Peg Leg Sam taught himself to play harmonica as a small child. He left home at the age of 12 and never stopped roving. He shined shoes, worked as a houseboy, cooked on ships, hoboed, and then made a living busking on street corners. He lost his leg in 1930, trying to hop a train but made a peg out of a fence post, bound it to his stub with a leather belt and kept moving.

 

He joined the medicine show circuit in 1937, often performing with Pink Anderson. His ability to play two harmonicas at once (while one went in and out of his mouth) made him an attraction; he could also play notes on a harmonica with his nose." -- wiki

 

 

 

Freight Train - Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee

 

"Blind harp wizard Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a spectacular guitar picker, had a 35-year-long partnership that helped to define Folk/Blues."

 

 

[Iving]

32 minutes ago, christopher3393 said:

Papa Lightfoot - Mean Ol' Train (1954)

 

 

FAST FREIGHT TRAIN..........." PEG LEG" SAM JACKSON

 

"Peg Leg Sam taught himself to play harmonica as a small child. He left home at the age of 12 and never stopped roving. He shined shoes, worked as a houseboy, cooked on ships, hoboed, and then made a living busking on street corners. He lost his leg in 1930, trying to hop a train but made a peg out of a fence post, bound it to his stub with a leather belt and kept moving.

 

He joined the medicine show circuit in 1937, often performing with Pink Anderson. His ability to play two harmonicas at once (while one went in and out of his mouth) made him an attraction; he could also play notes on a harmonica with his nose." -- wiki

 

 

 

Freight Train - Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee

 

"Blind harp wizard Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, a spectacular guitar picker, had a 35-year-long partnership that helped to define Folk/Blues."

 

 

 

first class post ty - appreciate the minor narrative on an interesting subject

[christopher3393]

The Brakeman's Blues (Yodeling the Blues Away) · Jimmie Rodgers (1928)

 

Rodgers worked as a brakeman and did a fair amount of hoboing.(hopping freight trains).

 

 

 As bluegrass by one of the greats: Brakeman's Blues · Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys

 

 

Brakeman's Blues · Lefty Frizzell  (Countrified)

 

 

Brakeman's Blues (Incomplete) · Johnny Cash  (Memphis sound)

 

 

Punch Brothers (Chris Thile) Brakeman's Blues  (Contemporary folk/bluegrass in a commited live performance from a band that loves to play this song!)

 

 

[petaluma]

 

[petaluma]

 

[Iving]

11 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

The Brakeman's Blues (Yodeling the Blues Away) · Jimmie Rodgers (1928)

 

Rodgers worked as a brakeman and did a fair amount of hoboing.(hopping freight trains).

 

 

 As bluegrass by one of the greats: Brakeman's Blues · Bill Monroe & The Blue Grass Boys

 

 

Brakeman's Blues · Lefty Frizzell  (Countrified)

 

 

Brakeman's Blues (Incomplete) · Johnny Cash  (Memphis sound)

 

 

Punch Brothers (Chris Thile) Brakeman's Blues  (Contemporary folk/bluegrass in a commited live performance from a band that loves to play this song!)

 

 

 

Brilliant post ty

iirc Joe Bussard respected Jimmie Rogers ... the documentary about JB's obsession with rare shellac is unmissable

 

edit: the documentary is called desperate man blues. i have the dvd. not on youtube except snips. here is a snip listening to jimmie rodgers in bussard's basement ...

 

[Iving]

5 hours ago, petaluma said:

 

nice

[Iving]

first clip in vimeo link below has bussard playing jimmie rodgers' T.B. Blues:
When it rained down sorrow it rained all over me
Cause my body rattles like a train on that old SP

https://vimeo.com/showcase/126383

 

Here's T.B. Blues on YT ...

 

 

[Iving]

In the mid-'90s, during an extended wasted youth (aspects of which I regret terribly now), I'd go out to see live music often. You'd get guys like Manny Charlton from Nazareth still doing the rounds in regarded venues such as Fibbers in York [UK]. A favourite target was a band called Strongheart. Too good for local pubs and clubs! The lead guitarist/singer was a character. He was pretty competent as a guitarist. They'd do heavy rock covers - e.g. "Whole Lotta Love" as a standard turn. I waited eagerly every time for "Freight Train". "Freight Train" featured on the 1992 Strongheart cult-Album 'Hard Wired' - although I didn't know that until much, much later. I couldn't find the Studio version of '"Freight Train" on YT but CLICK HERE for an mp3.

 

Live in 2007 a dozen years after-the-fact here:

 

You can see the Strongheart frontman with Graham Oliver of Saxon delivering Led Zep's "Rock 'n' Roll" here: