Favorite Train Song

[tunit]

Thanks seeker

[Acousticado]

"Wabash Cannonball" by Johnny Cash

[Pitar]

Freight Train Coming

https://app.box.com/s/kibwvtqfedrzc5k3syfbry68ugki67pb

[NoodleFingers]

The Rail Song - Adrian Belew

[Nort]

So many great songs, quite a few I know and play, looking forward to listening to some I haven't heard of.

Here's a couple written/performed by my friend Steve Gillette

the first is 2:10 train, I prefer his later performance from his Texas & Tennesee recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYbMZsEqMZo

the second is "Always a train in my dreams"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pAZ-4XhKuI

and he and Cindy Mangsen do a version of "Jay Gould's Daughter" on their "Live" recording, here's Happy Traum's version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cOxsA4nWXc


Someone asked earlier about another artist who does "Panama Limited" other than Tom Rush, here's a version by Bluesman Doug MacLeod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2R8OTXJsxw

[Cabarone]

Have we made mention of the first train song most of us ever learned to sing: "I've Been Working On The Railroad"?

[Silurian]

Haven't read the whole thread, but in my opinion this is a great song.

Midnight Train To Georgia - Gladys Knight and the Pips.

[pegleghowell]

The gone dead train-King Solomon Hill
Pea Vine blues-Charlie Patton
Chickasaw train blues-Memphis Minnie
Long Train blues-Robert Wilkins
Big Railroad blues-Gus Cannon`s Jug Stompers
The New Frisco Train-Bukka White
Travelin`Blues-Willie Mc Tell
The Panama Limited-Bukka White
Freight train blues-Fred McDowell
Black train blues-Bukka White

[ocmcook]

i haven't gone through all the responses but i would have thought the wabash cannon ball would have been mentioned very early.

[catfish]

Wooden Wand cover of Pink Floyd's Echoes --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zcx...ryxg&index=142

[Charmed Life Picks]

Originally Posted by cmd612

Train Song - Tom Waits

Waits's Downtown Train, isn't bad, either.

also: Love in Vain by Robert Johnson, Georgia on a Fast Train by Billy Jo Shaver, Locomotive Joe by Wayne Hancock

"Downtown Train" has such a catchy melody. I listened to it several times this weekend and now can't put it down. Rod Stewart actually had a huge hit with it. I'm putting both below.

[pick me]

Originally Posted by Methos1979

Locomotive Breath - Jethro Tull

You beat me to it, perhaps not what many will think of as a train song, but it has always been a favorit of mine.
https://youtu.be/bNCT6pA5I9A

[alohachris]

Aloha,

Many train songs are full of hokum (hype) & instrumental show-offs.

Norman Blake's "Crossing # 9" is full of soul & it tells a simpler story about a small, rural Southern town from a long ago time when steam engines ruled the land - without any hokum.

https://youtu.be/WFB1Lzw1SZE

And, of course, Norman Blake's classic, "Slow Train Through Georgia."

https://youtu.be/V-6alHEC12I

alohachris

[robj144]

I guess from their entire catalog I'd go with "Drops of Jupiter".

[alohachris]

Aloha,

In electric circles, my favorite all-time train song is "Hear My Train A-Comin" on Jimi Hendrix's Rainbow Bridge album.

It's the most intense, creative & revealing (about Jimi's fragility) train song of all. It sounds like a train is rumbling through your living room on those two solo breaks.

Many versions are out there. But Check that Rainbow Bridge album version out (I can't find it now). It is astonishing!

alohachris