Train Music!

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28 minutes ago, sphinxsix said:

More amazing 'This Trains'.

 

From Woody Guthrie: At 100! Live At The Kennedy Center.

The performers: Old Crow Medicine Show · Joel Rafael · Jimmy LaFave · Donovan · Rosanne Cash · John Leventhal · Sweet Honey In The Rock · Lucinda Williams · Judy Collins · Tom Morello · Ani DiFranco · Ry Cooder · Dan Gellert · Jackson Browne · The Del McCoury Band · Tony Trischka · Tim O'Brien · John Mellencamp and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

 

 

 

Some amazing harmonica.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All in all I don't think Johnny Cash has more train songs in his catalogue than Woody 

 

One more.

 

Frankie Fuchs found this song in a shoebox in Woody Guthrie's manager's office and wrote the music to keep pace with Woody's "New Baby Train." He recorded this with bluesman, harmonica wizard Kim Wilson, for "Daddy O Daddy," on Rounder Records. Marla Frazee's pictures made the story come to life.

 

 

nice post ty

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25 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

Is it correct any song from Grand Funk Railroad would be mentioned here?

qualifies yes

quality of theme counts 😉

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edit @AnotherSpin we have a sayin in Germany: Two idiots, same thought ... or Brothers in Mind ...;-)

 

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6 hours ago, christopher3393 said:

People Get Ready -- written and composed by Curtis Mayfield, 1965

 

People, get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need no ticket
You just get on board

 

All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket
You just thank the Lord.

 

 

The Impressions (w/ Curtis Mayfield)

 

The Chambers Brothers ( a favorite, had the album)

 

 

"People Get Ready" is in a long tradition of Black American freedom songs that use train imagery, such as "Wade in the Water", "The Gospel Train", and "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot". The imagery comes from the Underground Railroad, not a real train but an escape route North to freedom for escaped slaves in America pre-civil war, with conductors such as Harriet Tubman going back time and again to the South to show people the route of the "railroad". Images of mobility have been consistently linked to liberation in African American music including trains, highways, marching and space travel. ---wiki

 

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

 

 

Aretha Franklin

 

 

 

One Love/People Get Ready (1984) - Bob Marley & The Wailers

 

 

 

nice post ty

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Great song, but the word "on" shouldn't be in the title.  Wanted to show this album cover, though...

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Does this count.?