The history and the mystery of the railroad ring out from this 22-track collection of American railroad songs and music from the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress. Recorded by 16 different collectors between 1936 and 1959, the collection includes songs about the construction of the railroad and railroading as craft, as well as songs that tap the symbolic significance of the train. Train calls, track-lining chants, stories of famous train wrecks and instrumental train imitations are joined by spirituals using train imagery and folk descendants of popular compositions about the railroad. Mrs. Minta Morgan, vocals / Warde H. Ford, vocals / Henry Hankins, vocals / Aunt Molly Jackson, vocals / Blaine Stubblefield, vocals, guitar / Nobel B. Brown, vocals / Lester A. Coffee, vocals / Austin Harmon, vocals, banjo / Clarence H. Wyatt, vocals, guitar / Russell Wise, fiddle / Mr. White, guitar / The Ridge Rangers, stringband/ Mrs. Esco Kilgore, vocals / Will Wright, vocals / Merle Lovell, vocals, guitar / Jim Holbert, vocals / Joe Harris, vocals, guitar / Kid West, vocals, mandolin / 22 tracks on CD include: Calling Trains; The Boss of the Section Gang; Jerry Will You Ile that Car; Lining Track; Roll On Buddy; Way Out in Idaho; Oh, I'm a Jolly Irishman Winding on the Train; The Engineer; George Allen; The Wreck of the Royal Palm; Train Blues; The New River Train; The Train is Off the Track; Gonna Lay My Head Down on Some Railroad Line; I Rode Southern, I Road L. & N.; The Lightning Express; Railroad Rag; The Railroader; The T. & P. Line; The Dying Hobo; The Big Rock Candy Mountains; I'm Going Home on the Morning Train

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