Folk Queue

let there be songs to fill the air

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Classic Railroad Songs

72 minutes of railroad songs from Smithsonian Folkways

excerpt from Rail Dynamics
New Lost City Ramblers - Train 45
Furry Lewis - Kassie Jones
Pete Seeger - Jay Gould's Daughter
Walt Robertson - Railroad Bill
Leadbelly - Linin' Track
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train
Cisco Houston - Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill
L. M. Hilton - Zack, the Mormon Engineer
Virginia Mountain Boys - Lost Train Blues
Annie Watson - The F. F. V.
New Lost City Ramblers - He's Coming to Us Dead
Doc Watson - The Train that Carried My Girl from Town
Leadbelly - Rock Island Line
Sonny Terry/Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston - Lonesome Train
Woody Guthrie/Cisco Houston - John Henry
Rosalie Sorrels - The Wreck of the Number 9
Brownie Mcghee - Freight Train Blues
Mike Seeger - The New Market Wreck
Haywire Mac - Jerry, Go Oil that Car
Rosalie Sorrels - Way Out in Idaho
Henry Grady Terrell - Old John Henry Died on the Mountain
John D. Mounce - Casey Jones
Pop Stoneman - Wreck of the Old 97
Leadbelly - Midnight Special
Doc Watson - Wabash Cannonball
Vernon Sutphin - Lost Train Blues
Iron Mountain String Band - New River Train
excerpt from Three Little Engines & 33 Cars