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Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways

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Classic Railroad Songs from Smithsonian Folkways

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As 19th-century America expanded, so too did the "ribbons of iron" that crisscrossed the vast landscape and sparked the imagination of music-makers. Work songs, ballads recounting riveting exploits, and instrumental echoes of the once familiar sounds of the steam locomotive have enshrined the railroad in our musical memory. Classic Railroad Songs mines the Smithsonian Folkways archives to create this tribute to a favorite American source of inspiration.

Track Listing:

Disc 1:
  1. Rail Dynamics (Excerpt) - Emory Cook (Excerpt)
  2. Train 45 - The New Lost City Ramblers
  3. Kassie Jones - Furry Lewis
  4. Jay Gould's Daughter - Pete Seeger
  5. Railroad Bill - Walt Robertson
  6. Linin' Track - Leadbelly
  7. Freight Train - Elizabeth Cotten
  8. Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill - Cisco Houston
  9. Zack, The Mormon Engineer - L.M. Hilton
  10. Lost Train Blues - Virginia Mountain Boys
  11. F.F.V., The - Annie Watson (previously unreleased)
  12. He's Coming to Us Dead - The New Lost City Ramblers
  13. Train That Carried My Girl from Town, The - Doc Watson
  14. Rock Island Line - Leadbelly
  15. Lonesome Train - Cisco Houston/Sonny Terry/Woody Guthrie
  16. John Henry - Cisco Houston/Woody Guthrie
  17. Wreck of the Number Nine, The - Rosalie Sorrels
  18. Freight Train Blues - Brownie McGhee
  19. New Market Wreck, The - Mike Seeger
  20. Jerry, Go and Oil That Car - Harry McClintock
  21. Way Out in Idaho - Rosalie Sorrels
  22. Old John Henry Died on the Mountain - Henry Grady Terrell
  23. Casey Jones - John D. Mounce
  24. Wreck of the Old 97 - Pop Stoneman
  25. Midnight Special - Leadbelly
  26. Wabash Cannonball - Doc Watson
  27. Lost Train Blues - Vernon L. Sutphin
  28. New River Train - Iron Mountain String Band
  29. Three Little Engines and 33 Cars (Excerpt) - Vinton Wight (Excerpt)
Release date Australia
April 12th, 2010
Album Length (Minutes)
01:11:00
Label
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Number of Discs
1
Original Release Year
2006
UPC
093074019221
Product ID
6227183

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