GoingSideways: Colorado and the Midwest

[mdlbear]

The latest post in GoingSideways.blog is Colorado and the Midwest.

N and m ride the California from somewhere west of Denver to Chicago. With bonus playlist of train songs. How many do you recognize? What have we missed?

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

The one that jumped to mind (since I happen to have been talking about it with someone) is "Roll on Jamaica/Agnes on the Cowcatcher" from Canadian band Tanglefoot.

Like many of their songs it's based on an actual bit of Canadian history.

[mdlbear]

For the benefit of anyone else following up on this, here are Tanglefoot performing "Roll On Jamaica/Agnes on the Cowcatcher", and
the lyrics on mudcat.org: Agnes on the Cowcatcher/Roll On Jamaica

[acelightning73]

A Few Train Songs

(I used to be a country and western radio DJ.)

Anything by "Jimmie Rogers, the Singing Brakeman" (late 1940s to 1950s)
Merle Haggard, "The Miner's Silver Ghost"
Johnny Cash, "I've Got A Thing About Trains" and "Texas-1947"
Doug Kershaw (a Cajun fiddler), "Orange Blossom Special"
Dolly Parton, "Blue Smoke"
Any version of "Hell Bound Train"

[kshandra]

How about a Grateful Dead song that isn't Casey Jones?

Tons of Steel, from In The Dark

[flemmings]

Maybe Tom Rush, Lost my Drivin' Wheel?