Trains, Take 1

There's countless train songs in American music. Tonight we're tackling some of them in the worlds of bluegrass and oldtime. Next week will be blues and miscellany.

Trains, rails, hobos, tramps, engineers, and of course, wrecks.  

Enjoy!

JBOK

Artist / Song Title / Album / Label

Highwoods Stringband / C&NW Railroad Blues / Live! / Self

Rosalie Sorrels / The Wreck of the Number Nine / Classic Railroad Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Fred Cockerham / Long Steel Rail / Clawhammer Banjo Volume 1 / County
John Ashby & The Free State Ramblers / Freight Train Moan / John Ashby & The Free State Ramblers / Field Recorders Collective
Hazel Dickens & Alice Gerrard / Train on the Island / 1965-73 Pioneering Women of Bluegrass / Folkways
The Stanley Brothers / Ridin’ That Midnight Train / The Early King & Starday Years, 1958 – 1961 / King

Tony Rice / Old Train / Manzanita / Rounder
Pete Seeger / Riding The Freights (Spoken Word) / Pete Remembers Woody / Appleseed
Bob Dylan / Freight Train Blues / Bob Dylan [The Original Mono Recordings] / Columbia
J.W. Day / Little Boy Working on the Railroad / Complete 78 recordings and more / None
Calvin Cole / New River Train / Calvin Cole – Fancy Gap Banjo / Field Recorders Collective

Charlie Poole / The Brave Engineer / With the North Carolina Ramblers and the Highlanders / JSP
Al Hopkins & His Buckle Busters / The Nine Pound Hammer / The Hill Billies, Volume 2: 1926 – 1927 / Document
The Seldom Scene / Pan American / Old Train / Rebel
The Seldom Scene / City of New Orleans / Act 1 / Rebel
Dock Boggs / Railroad Tramp / Dock Boggs, Vol. 2 / Smithsonian Folkways
Hamper McBee / Wreck of the Number 9 / The Good Old-Fashioned Way / Drag City

Reno & Smiley / Kansas City Railroad Blues / Strictly Instrumental / Rural Rhythm
Larry Richardson / John Henry / Larry Richardson and the Blue Ridge Boys / Old Blue
Brother Claude Ely / Stop That Train / Satan Get Back / Ace
EC Ball / Freight Train / Home Recordings / Self
Jim & Jesse / Freight Train / The Old Dominion Masters / Rebel
Larry Keel & Natural Bridge / Georgia Mail / LK & NB / Self

Wilf Carter (Montana Slim) / The Midnight Train – 1948 / Wilf Carter: A (Canadian) Prairie Legend, Volume 2 / Bear Family
The Quebe Sisters Band / Take the ‘A’ Train / Timeless / Self
Doc Watson / Wabash Cannonball / Classic Railroad Songs / Smithsonian Folkways

Alex Hood and His Railroad Boys / L and N Rag / 1001 Fiddle Tunes Vol. 1 / http://1001tunes.com
Jimmie Rodgers / Train Whistle Blues – 1930 / The Singing Brakeman [Disc 2] / Bear Family
Jean Ritchie / The L&N Don’t Stop Here Anymore / Music Of Coal: Mining Songs From The Applachian Coalfields / Full Lights
Elkville String Band / The Freight Wreck at Altoona / Over The Mountain / Self
The Traveling McCoury’s / Monkey and the Engineer / Little Mo’ McCoury / McCoury Music
Pharis & Jason Romero / Engine 143 / A Passing Glimpse / Self

John Haywood / Ramblin’ Hobo / Haywood Banjo Volume 3 With Ponty’s Camper & Rats On The Railroad / Self
Jimmy Martin / Train 45 / Jimmy Martin & The Sunny Mountain Boys, 1954 – 1974 / Bear Family
Wade Mainer’s Mountaineers / Train Carry My Girl Back Home / 1937-02-16 Charlotte, NC Bluebird Session / Bluebird
Monroe Brothers / New River Train / Blue Moon of Kentucky, 1936 – 1949 [Disc 1] / Bear Family
Carter Brothers & Son / Jenny On The Railroad / Mississippi String Bands Volume 1 / Document
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band / Nine Pound Hammer / Will The Circle Be Unbroken / Capitol

Jim Woodward and Ray Stipe / Morgan on the Railroad / John Harrod recordings / Berea College
The Louvin Brothers / Freight Train Blues / Close Harmony / Bear Family
Banjo Bill Cornett / Wreck Of The Old 97 / The Lost Recordings – Field Recorders’ Collective Frc304 / Field Recorders Collective
New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters / Train on the Island / The Galax Way / Hay Holler