Song Of The Day: Aug.13, 2018

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A week of train songs? How about a month?  Let’s start with a week and see where this train takes us.

Leadbelly as channeled through Little Richard and Fishbone kicks off our journey:

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  1. Mike Dinsmore says:
    August 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    I’d like to nominate “Daddy, What’s a Train?” by Utah Phillips, and “A Train Not Running,” by Chris Knight, for inclusion in this week’s topic. Or maybe, depending on which way the topic is progressing, “Hellbound Train,” by Savoy Brown.

  2. RE Vanella says:
    August 13, 2018 at 4:39 pm

    Holy coincidence. I just found a copy of Hellbound Train at the record shop Friday. I owe it now….

  3. waterpirate says:
    August 13, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    Not sure of the rules, but I would submit:

    “Train Train” by Blackfoot

    “Drums took a train” at the spectrum the dead circa 1991, I thought we were on the tracks and about to be killed!

    “I know you rider” performed by your choice of artist, I wish I was a headlight on a north bound train.

  4. El Somnambulo says:
    August 13, 2018 at 7:33 pm

    The rules are: There are no rules.

  5. puck says:
    August 13, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    Little Black Train, Woody Guthrie
    Folsom Prison Blues
    Can’t You See (Marshall Tucker Band)

  6. liberalgeek says:
    August 13, 2018 at 9:18 pm

    Not all trains carry passengers. Sometimes they carry off whole counties…

    I suggest John Prine’s Paradise (or one of the worthy covers).

  7. Mike Dinsmore says:
    August 14, 2018 at 12:59 am

    In the case of non-passenger carrying trains, “Freight Train,” by Elizabeth Cotten.

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