The Edge Of AmericanaTrain Songs II: Blues, Jugband, Western Swing, Miscellany

Week two of reeling in this particular whale of a theme. Enjoy these bluesgospelwesternragtime train songs!

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Artist / Name / Album / Label

Mississippi John Hurt / Spike Driver Blues / 1926-33 Harry Smith – Anthology of American Folk Music / Folkways
Sister Rosetta Tharpe / This Train / Complete Recorded Works, Volume 1, 1938 – 1944 / Document
Walter Davis / M & O Blues / Cincinnati Blues 1920-36 (1) / Catfish
The Louvin Brothers / Midnight Special / Close Harmony / Bear Family
Spade Cooley / Wabash Cannon Ball / King Of Western Swing, Vol. 1 / Soundies
The Delmore Brothers / The Wabash Cannonball Blues / Delmore Brothers, Volume 2 / JSP
Bad Livers / Cannonball Rag / Industry & Thrift / Sugar Hill

The Wiyos / Midnight Train / The Wiyos / None
Sonny Terry, Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston / Lonesome Train / Classic Railroad Songs / Smithsonian Folkways
Woody Guthrie / Farmer-Labor Train / Hard Travelin’: The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3 / Smithsonian Folkways
Merle Travis / Cannon Ball Rag ’52 / Guitar Rags and a Too Fast Past / Bear Family
Bukka White / The New ‘Frisco Train / The Vintage Recordings 1930 – 1940 “Aberdeeen Mississippi Bl / Document

Othar Turner & The Afrossippi Allstars / Station Blues / From Senegal To Senatobia / Birdman
Jesse James / Southern Casey Jones / Cincinnati Blues (1920-36) / Catfish
Arizona Dranes / I’m Going Home On The Morning Train / Complete Recordings / Document
Rev. J. M. Gates / Death’s Black Train Is Coming / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) / Third Man & Reverent

Robert Johnson / Love In Vain / King of the Delta Blues Singers / Columbia
Memphis Jug Band / I Packed My Suitcase, Started to the Train / 1927-30 Memphis Jug Band / Yazoo
Elizabeth Cotten / Freight Train / Classic Railroad Songs /
Bill Monroe / My Saviour’s Train / Blue Moon Of Kentucky, 1936 – 1949 / Bear Family
The Carter Family / The Cannonball / When The Roses Bloom In Dixieland: Their Complete Victor Recordings, 1929 – 1930 / Rounder
Will Bennett / Railroad Bill / People Take Warning! Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-19 / Tompkins Square

Old Train Caller from New Orleans / Calling Trains / Field Recordings: Volume 3, Mississippi, 1936 – 1942 / Document
Kelly Pace, Charlie Porter, L.T. Edwards, Willie Hubbard, Luther Williams, Napoleon Cooper, Albert Pate, & Willie Lee Jones / Rock Island Line / Negro Work Songs and Calls / Document
Pullman Porters Quartette / Pullman Passenger Train / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1 (1917-1927) / Pm 12607, 20168-3
Wood’s Famous Blind Jubilee Singers / This Train Is Bound For Glory / The Rise & Fall of Paramount Records, Volume 1, 1917 – 1927 / Third Man & Reverent
Charlie McCoy / That Lonesome Train Took My Baby Away / Charlie McCoy (1928-1932) / Document
Foghorn Duo / Little Black Train / Lonesome Song / None
Hot Rize / Dixie Cannonball / Hot Rize Presents Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers / Flying Fish

Henry Thomas / When The Train Comes Along / Texas Worried Blues / Smithsonian Folkways
Carl Martin / John Henry / Crow Jane Blues / Testament Records
Fred McDowell / When the Train Comes Along / The First Recordings / Mississippi
Al Duvall / Pick ‘Em Clean / Coroner & Knives / Boontling
John Jackson / Fairfax Station Rag / Front Porch Blues / Rounder

Johnny Cash / Hey Porter / Boppin’ Hillbilly To Red Hot Rockabilly / Proper
Hobart Smith / John Henry / In Sacred Trust: The 1963 Fleming Brown Tapes / Smithsonian Folkways
Roscoe Holcomb / Trouble In Mind / The High Lonesome Sound / Folkways
Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet / Golden Gate Gospel Train / Goodbye, Babylon – Judgment / Dust To Digital