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ghostlocohunter
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:16 pm
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Dose anybody Know Of Any Good Train Or Truckie Songs From Australia Or America please list them some where here.
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Serviceton_Kev
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:54 pm
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| ghostlocohunter wrote: | | Dose anybody Know Of Any Good Train Or Truckie Songs From Australia Or America please list them some where here. |
Slim Dusty has a few train and truck songs. He does Indian Pacific as well as lights on the hill and other trucky songs.
I can't remember the bloke but he sings Convoy.
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:39 pm
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That'd be one C. W. McCall.
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:41 pm
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I seem to remember a funky instrumental piece called Hume Highway, almost to trucks what the similar Southern Aurora is to trains.
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21C123
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:51 pm
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| ghostlocohunter wrote: | | Dose anybody Know Of Any Good Train Or Truckie Songs From Australia Or America please list them some where here. |
Man oh man   Where does one start???
For Australia, how about beginning with just about any record ever made by the late, great(est) Slim Dusty??? Just about all of Slim's album's have rail or truck songs on them, and they are all terrific.
Slim Dusty/Rail examples:
- The Indian Pacific
- The Sunlander
- Abalinga Mail (hilarious!)
- Cootamundra (I think covered by Slim, but certainly done by Macca)
Slim Dusty/Truck Examples (there is at least one album of his containing nothing but truckie songs!!!):
- The Lights on the Hill (the all time "classic")
- Highway One
- Bent Axle Bob
- Pushin' Time
- Gotta Keep Movin'
- Something in the Piliga
- Long Black Road
- My Dad was a Road Train Man
and more and more...
have a look at www.slimdusty.com.au for starters.
Try the Bushwackers as well - songs like "Rolling Stone", with those great lines:
You stamp upon a thistle
When you hear the engine's whistle,
You get tangled up in signal wires and points.
You stumble in the gutter
And angrily you mutter,
"Well strike me pink, of all the flamin' joints!"
You see the green light flashing
And you hear the bumpers [not "buffers"!] crashing
And you see the great big engine that's rushing by.
With your swag held at the ready
But your nerves are none too steady
And you know you've got to take her on the fly...
Your swag you try to throw in
But the flamin' thing won't go in
Bounces off the truck, it hits you and you fall.
Pick the remnants of your swag up,
Pick your billy can and bag up
And you say, "I missed the bastard after all..."
(Ch.) Oh, world, 'round you go
You are just a rolling stone.
Even though the skies are grey
There surely will come the day,
You'll own a bloody railway of your own...
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I am sure Smoky Dawson (sadly recently departed as well) did loads of railway songs as well, for example:
- Save the Mail
- An Old Railway Line that Runs to Nowhere
- he also did a version of The Wabash Cannonball.
Modern Australian Country singers like Lee Kernaghan must have truckie songs in their range as well. On the more traditional front again, there's Buddy Williams:
- Waiting for a Train
- On the Gundagai Line.
Or, Reg Lindsay:
- Midnight Train
- The Tennessee Local.
Any of these should be obtainable from a decent record shop selling Australian Country and Western records.
As for America - I really don't know where to begin!
How about, probably the best known of them all,
Steve Goodman's "City of New Orleans". Recorded countless times, but of course the best of them all would have to be the late, great Johnny Cash's recording. As for Mr Cash himself, how about some other recordings of his, such as:
- Orange Blossom Special
- Folsom Prison Blues (this is a railroad song at least as much as it is a prison song!)
- Midnight Special etc etc
For something completely different, how about Judy Garland singing "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe"? 
Is that enough to kick things off??
TimP
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:03 am
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I like Steve Earle's Mystery Train Part II. It's nicely sinister.
I've currently got the following snippet as my sig elsewhere:
Run down to the station. Run down to the station.
Dread and fascination. Run down to the station.
It's a creepy vibe of what it's like to be a hillbilly with the train at once being an interesting thing, but also being a possibly unwanted link with the fearsome outside world.
She ain't bound for nowhere. She ain't bound for nowhere.
Engineer just don't care. She ain't bound for nowhere...
Top stuff.
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21C123
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:16 am
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| TheLoadedDog™™ wrote: | | That'd be one C. W. McCall. |
Indeed it would. Real name, Billy Dale Fries.
You can find C.W. at the following site:
http://www.narrowgauge.org/4x4/cw_pages/html/cw_main.html
Prior to "Convoy", he famously recorded "Wolf Creek Pass". Well worth listening closely to the lyrics of that one - it was pretty big in Australia in the early '70's as well as in the States.
From Convoy
I said, "Callin' all trucks,
This here's The Duck,
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll".
So we crashed the gates,
Doin' 98
And said, "let them truckers roll"
10-4
... and don't forget that the convoy famously included:
Eleven long-haired
Friends of Jesus
In a chartreuse micro-bus...!
TimP
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Maikha
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:32 am
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I've also heard the song Jewel of the Newell as well on the local station here. Not sure if that's directly truckie related, although considering it is the Newell Highway!
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Maikha Ly
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21C123
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:33 am
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| TheLoadedDog™™ wrote: | I like Steve Earle's Mystery Train Part II. It's nicely sinister.
I've currently got the following snippet as my sig elsewhere:
Run down to the station. Run down to the station.
Dread and fascination. Run down to the station.
It's a creepy vibe of what it's like to be a hillbilly with the train at once being an interesting thing, but also being a possibly unwanted link with the fearsome outside world.
She ain't bound for nowhere. She ain't bound for nowhere.
Engineer just don't care. She ain't bound for nowhere...
Top stuff. |
Thanks for this one TLD™, I don't think I know it, so must seek it out. Sounds good from your snippets and description!
TimP
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:40 am
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It's on an album called Train a'comin', which is weird because that's the main lyric of the song I mentioned, but the song itself isn't named that.
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21C123
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 12:43 am
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| TheLoadedDog™™ wrote: | | It's on an album called Train a'comin', which is weird because that's the main lyric of the song I mentioned, but the song itself isn't named that. |
Great - thanks. I will track down a copy!
TimP
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:03 am
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In case there is anyone who doesn't know the lyrics, and as it is "The best damn railroad song ever written" (to quote Kris Kristofferson), here is The City of New Orleans (it really must be one of the most poignant eulogies for a passing era ever put into song):
Riding on the City of New Orleans,
Illinois Central, Monday morning rail
Fifteen cars and fifteen restless riders,
Three conductors and twenty-five sacks of mail.
All along the southbound odyssey
The train pulls out at Kankakee
Rolls along past houses, farms and fields.
Passin' trains that have no names,
Freight yards full of old black men
And the graveyards of the rusted automobiles.
CHORUS:
Good morning America how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
Dealin' cards with the old men in the club car.
Penny a point ain't no one keepin' score.
Oh Won't you pass the paper bag that holds the bottle
Feel the wheels rumblin' 'neath the floor.
And the sons of pullman porters
And the sons of engineers
Ride their father's magic carpets made of steam.*
Mothers with their babes asleep,
Are rockin' to the gentle beat
And the rhythm of the rails is all they dream.*
CHORUS
Nighttime on The City of New Orleans,
Changing cars in Memphis, Tennessee.
Half way home, we'll be there by morning
Through the Mississippi darkness
Rolling down to the sea.
And all the towns and people seem
To fade into a bad dream
And the steel rails still ain't heard the news.
The conductor sings his song again,
The passengers will please refrain
This train's got the disappearing railroad blues.
Good night, America, how are you?
Don't you know me I'm your native son,
I'm the train they call The City of New Orleans,
I'll be gone five hundred miles when the day is done.
*Arlo Guthrie and others (e.g Johnny Cash) have substituted the word "steel" for "steam" and and "feel" for "dream" - personally, I think it reads much better that way, but then I didn't write the song!!!! For those who don't know their geography or American train timetables, the Monday morning departure point is, of course, Chicago...
TimP
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:06 am
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| 21C123 wrote: | | The best damn railroad song ever written" (to quote Kris Kristofferson. |
As is quite often the case, brutha Kris is spot on the money. Listening to Willie cranking this out is truly going to another zone.
"..and the steel rails still ain't heard the news..."
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21C123
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:37 am
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| TheLoadedDog™™ wrote: | | 21C123 wrote: | | The best damn railroad song ever written" (to quote Kris Kristofferson. |
As is quite often the case, brutha Kris is spot on the money. Listening to Willie cranking this out is truly going to another zone. |
Indeed, how could I forget to mention Mr Nelson's cover of the song?! I think he also recorded The Wabash Cannonball among other railroad songs... Willie's records just get better with each listening 
TimP
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TheLoadedDog
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Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:46 am
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Oh f___ YES! Wabash Cannonball! How c'd ah fergit?
Now, she's from Tennessee
She's long and she's tall,
A reg'lar combination
On th' Wabash Cannonball!
And don't forget the mighty Rock Island Line:
Well, it's cloudy in the west and it looks like rain.
Around the curve come a passenger train,
North bound train on the south bound track.
He's alright leaving but he won't be back.
Good times. Thanks for opening the ol' memory floodgates, 21C123.
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