Podcast: Ride That Train, part 2
Episode #16-19 | airing 5-11-16
This week we on the Sing Out! Radio Magazine conclude our two part feature on Train Songs. We’ll include songs and tunes from Bela Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks, Anne Hills, Jimmie Rodgers and many more including “the best damn train song ever written.”
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Artist / “Title” / CD / Label
Pete Seeger / “If I Had A Hammer” / Songs Of Hope And Struggle /
Smithsonian-Folkways
The Virginia Mountain Boys / “Lost Train Blues” / Classic Railroad
Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Bela Fleck & Abigail Watson / “Railroad” / Bela Fleck & Abigail
Washburn / Rounder
Pullman Porters Quartette / “Pullman Passenger Train” / Train 45 /
Rounder
John McCutcheon / “Casey Jones the Union Scab” / Joe Hill’s Last
Will / Appalsongs
Boiled Buzzards / “The Engineers Don’t Wave from the Trains
Anymore” / Early Bird Special / Buzzard Productions
Anne Hills / “I Rode ‘Em All Man” / Tracks / Hand & Heart
Michael Cooney / “John Henry” / The Cheese Stands Alone / Folk
Legacy
Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks / “Waiting on the ‘103’” / The Most
of Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks / Epic
Vernon Sutphin / “Lost Train Blues” / Classic Railroad Songs /
Smithsonian Folkways
Bill Keith & Jim Ronney / “Reuben’s Old Train” / The Prestige/
Folklore Years Vol. 6 / Prestige Folklore
The Mountainaires / “Blue Railroad Train” / The Mountainaires /
Self Produced
Prudence Johnson / “The Train Carrying Jimmie Rodgers Home” /
Songs of Greg Brown / Red House
Jimmie Rodgers / “Train Whistle Blues” / On the Way Up / Rounder
New Lost City Ramblers / “Railroading and Gambling” / Volume 1 /
Real Gone
Addie Graham / “O & K Train Song” / Been a Long Time Traveling /
June Appal
Jean Ritchie & Doc Watson / “Wabash Cannonball” / at Folk City /
Smithsonian Folkways
Steve Goodman / “City of New Orleans” / The Original Steve Goodman /
Buddah
Pete Seeger / “If I Had a Hammer (excerpt)” / Songs of Hope and Struggle /
Smithsonian Folkways