Classic Railroad Songs From Smithsonian Folkways - Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways [CD]

Release Date: January 10, 2006 /// Smithsonian Folkways

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Since the railroad's rise in the 1800s it has een a thing of musical fascination and fodder for American musicians and songwriter. Railroad work songs, ballads recounting riveting exploits and instrumental echoes of the once familiar sounds of the steam locomotive have enshrined the railroad in America's musical memory. CALSSIC RAILROAD SONGS mines the Smithsonian Folkways archives to create this tribute to a favorite American source of inspiration.

Tracklist:

Rail Dynamics (Excerpt) - Emory Cook (Excerpt)
Train 45 - The New Lost City Ramblers
Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
Jay Gould's Daughter - Pete Seeger
Railroad Bill - Walt Robertson
Linin' Track - Leadbelly
Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill - Cisco Houston
Zack, The Mormon Engineer - L.M. Hilton
Lost Train Blues - Virginia Mountain Boys
F.F.V., The - Annie Watson (previously unreleased)
He's Coming to Us Dead - The New Lost City Ramblers
Train That Carried My Girl from Town, The - Doc Watson
Rock Island Line - Leadbelly
Lonesome Train - Cisco Houston/Sonny Terry/Woody Guthrie
John Henry - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie
Wreck of the Number Nine, The - Rosalie Sorrels
Freight Train Blues - Brownie McGhee
New Market Wreck, The - Mike Seeger
Jerry, Go and Oil That Car - Harry McClintock
Way Out in Idaho - Rosalie Sorrels
Old John Henry Died on the Mountain - Henry Grady Terrell
Casey Jones - John D. Mounce
Wreck of the Old 97 - Pop Stoneman
Midnight Special - Leadbelly
Wabash Cannonball - Doc Watson
Lost Train Blues - Vernon L. Sutphin
New River Train - Iron Mountain String Band
Three Little Engines and 33 Cars (Excerpt) - Vinton Wight (Excer

UPC: 093074019221
Label: SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS
Release Date: 1.10.06
Format: CD

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