purchase [ Doc Watson ] As I noted last post, the train is a classic element of music from the south -be it the blues or country. Whet...

purchase [ Locomotive Breath ] I confess that I was old enough to be in the demographic of those who purchased the Monkees <Last...

Allen Toussaint: Last Train [ purchase ] You got me huffin' and puffin' and chuggin' like a choo-choo train... Because I couldn...

Iris Dement: I Miss A Lot Of Trains [ purchase ] In my humble opinion, Tom T. Hall is a songwriting genius. But apparently not everyone li...

Katy Moffatt: This Heart Stops for Railway Crosses [ purchase ] Salamander Crossing: Passion Train [ purchase ] Susan Werner: Time Betwe...

Vashti Bunyan: Train Song [ purchase ] Being a coverblogger means discovering the past through the present as much as it means rediscover...

Kris Delmhorst: You're No Train [ purchase ] John Gorka: I Don't Feel Like a Train [ purchase ] (out of print through his website)...

I must be out of my mind. I had this mad idea at the beginning of the week: I would go through all of my music samplers from The Oxford Ame...

The Steeldrivers: Midnight Train To Memphis [ purchase ] I was blown away by The Steeldrivers at last winter's Joe Val Bluegrass festiva...

Dave Carter: Hey Conductor introduction (from Rocky Mountain Folks Festival, 8/19/01) Dave Carter and Tracy Grammer: Hey Conductor [ purc...

Sir Douglas Quintet - The Railpak Dun Done In The Del Monte [ Purchase ] In January 1971, Doug Sahm returned to his native Texas after a fi...

Cassandra Wilson : Last Train to Clarksville [ purchase ] Let me introduce a new term: guilty displeasure. A guilty displeasure is a somethi...

Scott Miller and the Commonwealth: Amtrak Crescent [ purchase ] For a more traditional train song we turn to Scott Miller and the Amtrak Cr...

Alejandro Escovedo: Wave [ purchase ] This isn't a traditional train song. There aren't any images of riding the rails or any refer...

Los Lobos: That Train Don't Stop Here Anymore [ purchase ] Ah, Los Lobos. Nothing lonesome here - this is all high-octane tejano-infl...

Joni Mitchell: Just Like This Train [ purchase ] Of course we must include the very fitting selection by "the godmother of our blog...

The Velvet Underground: Train Round The Bend [ purchase ] "I'm sick of the trees. Take me to the city. Train comin' round th...

I'll always remember as a child waking in the middle of the night to the sound of trains in the distance. There seemed to be an endless ...

The Softies: Tracks and Tunnels [ Purchase ] This is one of my favorite songs by a band I love. The Softies consist of songwriters Rose Mel...

Asleep at the Wheel : My Baby Thinks She‘s a Train [ purchase ] My father grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in the years leading up to World War I...