country music, freight trains, and a question...

[louisnash]

On good one is "THE L&N DON'T STOP HERE ANYMORE", by The New Coon Creek Girls. It's a bluegrass song about Hazard Ky and the coal mines.

Brian (KY)

[Anonymous]

I just did an internet search on the term "railways and music" and the first two listings were a couple of UK web sites.
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/library/musrail.htm
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/railways_in_music.htm
These include anecdotes and listings of lots of music of all sorts (including country and western) with some kind of railway connection some going back to the 1820s. Hope everybody has lots of time to check them out.

[Anonymous]

I just did an internet search on the term "railways and music" and the first two listings were a couple of UK web sites.
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/library/musrail.htm
http://www.musicweb.uk.net/railways_in_music.htm
These include anecdotes and listings of lots of music of all sorts (including country and western) with some kind of railway connection some going back to the 1820s. Hope everybody has lots of time to check them out.

[JoeKoh]

i like boxcar blues by boxcar willie,long train runnin' by the doobie brothers souther rock offers other train songs too.
joe

[JoeKoh]

i like boxcar blues by boxcar willie,long train runnin' by the doobie brothers souther rock offers other train songs too.
joe

[ironhorseman]

my reply appears twice because some kind of error occured when i hit submit (in case you're wondering)

[ironhorseman]

my reply appears twice because some kind of error occured when i hit submit (in case you're wondering)

[Anonymous]

thanks for the help!!!!!

[Anonymous]

thanks for the help!!!!!

[ironhorseman]

Noah Hunt and Jason Dennie, Allison Moorer and Doyle Primm, Conway Twitty sang "Long Black Train" according to a quick internet search. Never heard of the song myself so I don't know who wrote it. I looked at the lyrics at http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0049.htm and it looks similar to "Orange Blossum Special" and the other two lyrics are each completely different (http://www.noahhunt.org/songlyrics.html , http://worldlyric.com/a/allisonmoorer/long_black_train.html)
I'm also sure there's a good chance Johnny Cash probably sang that song, too, but as to which version I would not know.

There's also the song "Big Black Train" done by Flatt & Scruggs. I like almost every song about trains from the old folk songs like "Casey Jones" and "Wreck of Old 97" to modern ones like "Engine #9" by Roger Miller or "Steel Rails" by Allison Krauss, however, my favorite song of all time is "City of New Orleans" done by Steve Goodman.


ironhorseman

[ironhorseman]

Noah Hunt and Jason Dennie, Allison Moorer and Doyle Primm, Conway Twitty sang "Long Black Train" according to a quick internet search. Never heard of the song myself so I don't know who wrote it. I looked at the lyrics at http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0049.htm and it looks similar to "Orange Blossum Special" and the other two lyrics are each completely different (http://www.noahhunt.org/songlyrics.html , http://worldlyric.com/a/allisonmoorer/long_black_train.html)
I'm also sure there's a good chance Johnny Cash probably sang that song, too, but as to which version I would not know.

There's also the song "Big Black Train" done by Flatt & Scruggs. I like almost every song about trains from the old folk songs like "Casey Jones" and "Wreck of Old 97" to modern ones like "Engine #9" by Roger Miller or "Steel Rails" by Allison Krauss, however, my favorite song of all time is "City of New Orleans" done by Steve Goodman.


ironhorseman

[ironhorseman]

Noah Hunt and Jason Dennie, Allison Moorer and Doyle Primm, Conway Twitty sang "Long Black Train" according to a quick internet search. Never heard of the song myself so I don't know who wrote it. I looked at the lyrics at http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0049.htm and it looks similar to "Orange Blossum Special" and the other two lyrics are each completely different (http://www.noahhunt.org/songlyrics.html, http://worldlyric.com/a/allisonmoorer/long_black_train.html)
I'm also sure there's a good chance Johnny Cash probably sang that song, too, but as to which version I would not know.

There's also the song "Big Black Train" done by Flatt & Scruggs. I like almost every song about trains from the old folk songs like "Casey Jones" and "Wreck of Old 97" to modern ones like "Engine #9" by Roger Miller or "Steel Rails" by Allison Krauss, however, my favorite song of all time is "City of New Orleans" done by Steve Goodman.


ironhorseman

[ironhorseman]

Noah Hunt and Jason Dennie, Allison Moorer and Doyle Primm, Conway Twitty sang "Long Black Train" according to a quick internet search. Never heard of the song myself so I don't know who wrote it. I looked at the lyrics at http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0049.htm and it looks similar to "Orange Blossum Special" and the other two lyrics are each completely different (http://www.noahhunt.org/songlyrics.html, http://worldlyric.com/a/allisonmoorer/long_black_train.html)
I'm also sure there's a good chance Johnny Cash probably sang that song, too, but as to which version I would not know.

There's also the song "Big Black Train" done by Flatt & Scruggs. I like almost every song about trains from the old folk songs like "Casey Jones" and "Wreck of Old 97" to modern ones like "Engine #9" by Roger Miller or "Steel Rails" by Allison Krauss, however, my favorite song of all time is "City of New Orleans" done by Steve Goodman.


ironhorseman

[Anonymous]

if you like country music and railroading, i would like to suggest an all time favorite album: HANK SNOW "railroad man"...any other fans on this board? also: johnny horton, boxcar willie, and merle haggard are other faves that have been known to make a number of freight references...

the question is if anyone knows who sang the old country song "long black train"?

[Anonymous]

if you like country music and railroading, i would like to suggest an all time favorite album: HANK SNOW "railroad man"...any other fans on this board? also: johnny horton, boxcar willie, and merle haggard are other faves that have been known to make a number of freight references...

the question is if anyone knows who sang the old country song "long black train"?