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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
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 Posted - 18/04/2012 : 14:31:41
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I was asked to supply a Train songs playlist to an American blog that ended up being not quite what I thought it was. Which, dang it, was a problem 'cause I was rather pleased with how it played. Not Bob standard of course, but here they are:
Detective - Train That Never Ends
Nick Cave O Children
Elbow - Station Approach
Robyn Hitchcock I Often Dream of Trains
Half Man Half Biscuit Time Flies By (When Youre A Driver Of A Train)
Ray Wylie Hubbard Train Yard
Seasick Steve & The Level Devils Hobo Blues
Amanda Shires When You Need A Train It Never Comes
Hugh Masekela Stimela
Jimmy Smith Gwon Train
Robert Earl Keen Whenever Kindness Fails
So I posted them on #tincanland (listen & read along if you like: http://mcaf.ee/xnd1c )
And then I thought, we could have some fun here with this. There's only been a few hundred - thousands? - of train songs done.
How about sharing your faves?
Tincanland music blog
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Pauly C
Frequently Whispers
366 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 18:54:15
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Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
Wille Nelson - City of New Orleans
Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
Mystery Train - Elvis (there's a great cover knocking about by Chet Atkins and Stanley Jordan) |
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 19:17:05
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Would like to hear that Chet Atkins cover.
Someone else contributing to that blog had already picked Desperados, damn them. Do you prefer Clark's David Alan Coe's or Jerry Jeff Walker's version (or another)?
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The Lew
Frequently Whispers
827 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 19:18:52
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Little Feat - Two Trains
John Hammond - So Many Roads, So Many Trains
Tom Waits - Downtown Train
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
Cat Stevens - Peace Train
Gladys Knight - Midnight Train To Georgia
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train
Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train
Solomon Burke - Fast Train
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 19:32:48
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Nice list. I had some of them shortlisted. One notable difference is I had Richie Havens doing Peace Train. Matter of choice.
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The Lew
Frequently Whispers
827 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 19:35:19
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Buddy Holly - It's Training In My Heart  |
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 19:39:13
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You may have had a few too many traindrops fall on your head
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Pauly C
Frequently Whispers
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 20:01:25
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ooo, thanks much for the Utube link. Such playing! Vocals didn't do much for me, though.
Gave a re-listen to Highwaymen too and I get the appeal but I have a bugaboo about that era when they turned country songs into production numbers. Like those early Townes albums.
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Stock Car G
Frequently Whispers
478 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 20:44:27
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Ghost Train - Marc Cohn
City of New Orleans - Arlo Guthrie
Train in the Distance - Paul Simon
City to City - Gerry Rafferty
Blue Train - Big House
Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller Orchestra
I'm sure there are many, many, more but I love all these and they just popped into my head! |
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jrn
Occasionally Whispers
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Posted - 18/04/2012 : 20:55:17
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John Mayer - Stop this train
Joe Bonamassa - Slow train
Ocean Colour Scene - The day we caught the train
Bruce Springsteen - Downtown train
Solomon Burke - Fast train
Jimi Hendrix - Hear my train a comin'
Vashti Bunyan - Train song
Cat Stevens - Peace train
Pentangle - Train song |
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jrn
Occasionally Whispers
135 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 21:01:11
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Just seen two of my choices already taken by Mr Lew so here are a few more.
ELO - Last train to London
Bon Jovi - Mystery train
Beth Orton - Paris train
Joni Mitchell - Just like this train
JJ Cale - Lonesome train |
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 21:31:58
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quote:
Originally posted by jrn
Joe Bonamassa - Slow train
His Ballad of John Henry is pretty awesome too. (John Henry as in railway steel driving man)
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 21:33:20
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quote:
Originally posted by jrn
Beth Orton - Paris train
I don't mean this as a pun (although it's a pretty good one), but she's a bit of a sleeper, isn't she?
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 21:34:52
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quote:
Originally posted by Stock Car G
Chattanooga Choo Choo - Glenn Miller Orchestra
You'd have to be pretty hard to not halfway melt when a Glenn Miller tune plays.
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Robalora
Frequently Whispers
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Posted - 18/04/2012 : 23:15:07
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Heres a Few that not many of you will have heard of!!
No Trains To Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
Jump That Train - Joanne Shaw Taylor
Train Train - Blackfoot
Catch A Train - Free
Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Go My Train - Dr Ika |
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Pauly C
Frequently Whispers
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Posted - 18/04/2012 : 23:17:49
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quote:
Originally posted by Robalora
Heres a Few that not many of you will have heard of!!
No Trains To Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
Jump That Train - Joanne Shaw Taylor
Train Train - Blackfoot
Catch A Train - Free
Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Go My Train - Dr Ika
I have a (free with some music paper) vinyl single sampler with that Tom Waits track on it. Excellent stuff. 'outside another yellow moon...has punched a hole in the nighttime mist' |
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Pauly C
Frequently Whispers
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Posted - 18/04/2012 : 23:19:20
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quote:
Originally posted by Pauly C
quote:
Originally posted by Robalora
Heres a Few that not many of you will have heard of!!
No Trains To Heaven - Be Bop Deluxe
Jump That Train - Joanne Shaw Taylor
Train Train - Blackfoot
Catch A Train - Free
Downtown Train - Tom Waits
Go My Train - Dr Ika
I have a (free with some music paper) vinyl single sampler with that Tom Waits track on it. Excellent stuff. 'outside another yellow moon...has punched a hole in the nighttime mist'
and this Bob Seger cover is miles ahead of the Rod Stewart abomination!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcRsxsjUUAY |
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Pauly C
Frequently Whispers
366 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 23:31:38
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| How about this: Leon Russell - It take a lot to laugh, it takes a trian to cry. (R. Zimmerman) |
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rws
Occasionally Whispers
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 23:55:27
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quote:
Originally posted by Robalora
Heres a few that not many of you will have heard of!
Ha! You have a lot of nerve making a claim like that in this company. I'd only heard 3 of those, but that's beside the point. :)
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 18/04/2012 : 23:58:56
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quote:
Originally posted by Pauly C
[quote]Originally posted by Robalora
I have a (free with some music paper) vinyl single sampler with that Tom Waits track on it.
I read somewhere once (I think)that this was the first song Kathleen Brennan had a hand in - after she told him to stop with the mumbling drunk personna.
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The Lew
Frequently Whispers
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Posted - 19/04/2012 : 19:22:08
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Rolling Stones - Love In Vain
Well I followed her to the station, with a suitcase in my hand etc |
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jela
Frequently Whispers
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merton
Occasionally Whispers
107 Posts |
Posted - 22/04/2012 : 09:54:32
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
95 Posts |
Posted - 22/04/2012 : 10:05:53
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I always thought Boxcars was a Joe Ely original. Sad to say I don't know who John Hancock is.
Nice one with the Who. I almost included that on my list - "outta my head/outta my head..." what a classic earworm
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ken
Frequently Whispers
221 Posts |
Posted - 22/04/2012 : 10:32:28
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I always liked UFO's cover of Mystery Train.
Why did I ever throw out all those cassettes of Radio 1 In Concert shows? :-)
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jela
Frequently Whispers
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Posted - 22/04/2012 : 11:20:21
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Tincanman - if you don't know who (George) Butch Hancock is then you've missed out on one of the greatest songwriters alive.
I'd love to give you a list of recommended listening but everything Butch does is required listening so take your pick from all the great music he's written/sang and enjoy!
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tincanman2010
Occasionally Whispers
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Posted - 22/04/2012 : 11:29:36
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ty I will.
Liked what I heard from the video clip above, so will hunt some down.
tx much for sharing that - my kinda music, that is
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This train stopped on Merseyside
