Train Songs

[benos]

Since I'm a big train fan, and the train practically runs through my yard, and I have a super cool train sculpture on the wall right next to the train track... I'm making a playlist of Train songs. See the attachment for where I'm at so far. The first six songs were from my iTunes, and the next 9 songs my girl recommended.

If you google "train song list" - Wikepedia returns a page with a zillion train songs, categorized alphabetically. So rather than click, read, and listen to those songs forever, I was wondering if anyone had any favorite songs about trains that came to mind.

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[Kingman]

there is a lounge singer doing "crazy train" I forget who it was, but it was pretty good.

[Jadeslade]

Midnight RIder Allman Brothers, Live at the Fillmore

Love in Vain, The Rolling Stones, Get Yer Ya Ya's Out

I Been to Georgia on a Fast Train, Billy Joe Shaver, Outlaw Country

[outerlimits]

Grand Funk Railroad-The Railroad...really like the live version from "caught in the act".

[DeweyH]

Train, Train by Blackfoot. ITUNES separates the prelude from the song and then charges $1.29 for it, but it is kind of a cool harmonica solo.

[Bill Nesbitt]

[Bill Nesbitt]

This one has trains in it.

[Modoc]

For a country bent; The Orang Blossom Special - The Charley Daniels Band, Cherokee Fiddle - ?, My Baby Thinks She's a Train - Joe Diffie, Love Train - Big & Rich, King of the Road - Tennessee Ernie Ford, Rock Island Line - Johnny Horton, balad of John Henery - The New Christy Minstrels, Casey Jones - the Greatful Dead,

I'll post again as I find others.

Edited December 11, 2010 by Modoc

[Jim Rusert]

there is a lounge singer doing "crazy train" I forget who it was, but it was pretty good.

I believe it was Pat Boone singing it as the theme song for The Osbourne's on MTV a few years back.

Mr. Boone was a neighbor of Ozzy and family.

[Jim Rusert]

While I'm at it:

Wreck Of The Old '97 - Johnny Cash

Old Train - Tony Rice (and other versions - Delmore Bros, maybe?)

Blue Railroad Train - Tony Rice (Seldom Scene?)

Wabash Cannonball - Hank Snow

My Baby Thinks He's A Train - Roseanne Cash

There's a lot of them!

Edited December 11, 2010 by Eastkoy

[sirveyr]

Train Kept a Rollin' (Aerosmith)

Long Black Train (Josh Turner)

I'll keep looking through my collection....

Edited December 11, 2010 by sirveyr

[outerlimits]

Shoot, forgot..Hear My Train a Comin' by jimi hendrix.

[open17]

The Trail Band (Marv and Rindy Ross from Quarterflash plus others)

"The Christmas Train" short clip here: http://www.trailband.com/offthewagon.html

They do a holiday tour of small venues here in the Northwest every year. REALLY good show!

[Miranda]

woody guthrie singing city of new orleans...

two songs I think of as train songs....

though not many agree

warren zevon; poor pitiful me

elvis presly; love me tender

luck in your searching.

miranda

[AlamoShooter]

I liked Petticoat Junction

[kampr]

A couple that popped into my head right away,..

Savoy Brown – Hellbound Train

The Yardbirds – Train Kept A Rollin’

Since I'm a "Blues" nut, I could put together quite a list.

a quote from Sam Davis;

Railways and trains are so deeply rooted in the fabric of American music culture to the point where “train” songs actually predate recorded music. Whether it was the songs sung by the railway workers in the late 1800’s or the railcar songs sung by the freighthoppers during the Great Depression, trains came to symbolize the journey and the American working class.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the blues was literally born from the railroad tracks. It was at a train station in Mississippi where the “Father of the Blues” W.C. Handy discovered the sounds that led him to compose some of the the very first blues songs such as the famous Memphis Blues. Blues music and its musicians developed a strong connection to the trains, heard in timeless blues classics such as Rock Island Line, Freight Train and Midnight Special.

Countless blues and rock musicians have been inspired by the train, and there is an endless list of songs with themes surrounding this topic.

[Leozinho]

Jerry Jeff Walker and Jimmy Buffett's Railroad Lady, co-written on the last run of the Panama Limited (which makes it the second best train song that line produced. )

Seems to capture the demise the rail travel.

Here's Willie's version (thought I prefer Jerry Jeff's.)

[GrumpyOne]

Train Kept a Rollin' (Aerosmith)

Long Black Train (Josh Turner)

I'll keep looking through my collection....

To hell with Aerosmith! Get the original!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOheWvkjq78

[outerlimits]

Mountain-Southbound Train (Live from Woodstock)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQHUwS03l1c

Edited December 11, 2010 by outerlimits

[Jim Rusert]

Interstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots

[benos]

Thanks for all the great replies!

After posting, I realized I forgot my favorite train song of all times - Railroad, by James Taylor. (It's not a "real" train song, but it is one of my favorite songs of all time.

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[Jim Rusert]

Hey Brian:

I almost forgot -

Desperados Waiting For A Train - Guy Clark.

This one will bring a tear to your eye!

[Punkin Chunker]

Incredible.

Went through the entire thread, and NO ONE listed Hank Snow's "Golden Rocket", or "Movin' On".

Those two shoulda been covered by now.

[midvalleyshooter]

I see you have Mystery Train by Elvis listed. This one done at the "Last Waltz" is pretty good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3KAdmivOVQ

Keith

[Sam]

What a coincidence! I happen to have a really cool picture, of a really cool patio, with a really cool picture of a train!

My fav train song of al time has got to be Doc And Merle Watson's cover of Hank Williams "Freight Train Blues".

Lordy, Lordy, Lordy.....